* Volvo 7700 Hybrid bus

The B7L was also available as a complete Volvo bus-the Volvo 5000 ( later renumbered 7500, with aluminium structure ) and Volvo 7000 ( later renumbered 7700, with stainless steel structure ).

Volvo 7700 Hybrid

Volvo B10M articulated bus in Chiba, Chiba | Chiba, Japan.

* Volvo Buses ( complete buses and bus chassis for city traffic, line traffic and tourist traffic )

* Volvo Olympian, double decker bus

* 1999: MMC and AB Volvo enter equity and operational alliance covering truck and bus operations.

* 2001: DaimlerChrysler replaces AB Volvo as MMC's strategic alliance partner in the truck and bus sector.

A 7E body articulated bus with Volvo B10M chassis

But later on, Volvo Olympians have been retired from the bus fleet, and were transferred to its parent company, KMB.

The latest additions to the bus fleet are the Volvo B9TL ( Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 ) double decker buses and the Mercedes Benz Citaro ( O530 ) buses.

Egged's bus fleet include a wide variety of bus models of Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, DAF and MAN, including bulletproof versions used mostly for travel in the West Bank.

The bus operations were divested as a management buy-out to form Leyland Bus, and was subsequently bought by Volvo Buses in 1988, which discontinued most of its product range but adopted the Leyland Olympian, re-engineering it as the first named Volvo Bus model, the Volvo Olympian aside from minor frame changes the major alterations were the fitment of volvo axles, braking system and controls.

As GCT had done, the GGPTE continued to buy large numbers of Leyland Atlantean double-decker buses, they were by far the most numerous type of bus in service, but GGPTE also introduced new bus types such as the Scania-MCW Metropolitan, and the front-engined, Scottish-built, Volvo Ailsa.

Hybrid Volvo 7700H bus at the Czech Bus Fair 2011

Image: Stockholm bus 01. jpg | 1967 Volvo bus

Image: Volvo bus in First Group livery. jpg | A modern Volvo bus

Image: First Manchester Volvo B10B Alexander Strider learner bus. jpg | A 1993 built B10B bus with Alexander Strider bodywork, pictured as a training bus for First Greater Manchester

Volvo Trademark Holding AB is equally owned by AB Volvo and Volvo Car Corporation.

The Dutch government sold out to its partners in 1999 and Volvo, by now owned by Geely, sold its stake to Mitsubishi in early 2001 to leave the Japanese company as the only remaining shareholder.

In 1971, Volvo joined Peugeot and Renault in the creation of the PRV company, a public limited company ( plc ) in which each of the three manufacturers owned an equal portion.

Volvo Cars was owned by AB Volvo until 1999, when it was acquired by the Ford Motor Company as part of its Premier Automotive Group.

* Volvo Car Corporation or Volvo Cars – a manufacturer of automobiles owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and formerly owned by Ford Motor Company.

Ford later added Roll Stability Control to AdvanceTrac which was first introduced in Volvo XC90 in 2003 when Volvo Cars was fully owned by Ford and it is now being implemented in many Ford vehicles.

* Volvo Group-a Swedish owned manufacturer of commercial vehicles and heavy equipment

* Volvo Cars-a Swedish automobile maker, since 2010 owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group

Originally part of Renault, it has been owned by Volvo Group since 2001.

Bus makers owned / acquired by Volvo:

* Merkavim, Israel ( 1996 ), jointly owned by Volvo Bus Corporation & Mayer Cars & Trucks Ltd., importer of HONDA cars & bikes in Israel

In conjunction with Volvo owned CPAC Systems, Volvo Penta and Yamaha Motor signed an agreement involving technological partnership in December 2010.

This category is for articles relating to the Volvo Cars marque now owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group.

SBS9889U is an Volvo Super Olympian demonstrator bodied by ComfortDelgro | ComfortDelgro Engineering and is owned by SBS Transit.

An East Lancs Olympus-bodied 2-axle Volvo B9TL owned by Delaine Buses.

A Volvo Super Olympian demonstrator that is bodied by ComfortDelgro Engineering and is owned by SBS Transit in Singapore.

After suggestions of selling Jaguar Cars, Land Rover or Volvo Cars, Ford appointed UBS AG to sell all or part of Aston Martin by auction and announced the fact in August 2006.

* 1954: Turbo-diesel truck in mass production by Volvo.

Most buses are modern and were built by the Volvo company.

Qt is most notably used in Autodesk Maya, The Foundry's Nuke, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Skype, VLC media player, VirtualBox, and Mathematica, and by the European Space Agency, DreamWorks, Google, HP, KDE, Lucasfilm, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Volvo, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Research In Motion.

* Volvo hopes to use radar, sonar and other advanced technologies to create a crash-proof car by 2020.

However, the first modern three point seat belt ( the so-called CIR-Griswold restraint ) used in most consumer vehicles today was patented in 1955 ( US Patent 2, 710, 649 ) by the Americans Roger W. Griswold and Hugh DeHaven, and developed to its modern form by Nils Bohlin for Swedish manufacturer Volvo — who introduced it in 1959 as standard equipment.

They include the biennial Ryder Cup played by two teams, one representing the USA and the other representing Europe ; the biennial Presidents Cup for teams representing the USA and International ( non-European ) players ; the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship ; and the older Volvo World Match Play Championship, an invitational event which is now part of the European Tour.

This was one of a series of collaborative ventures undertaken by Renault in the late 1960s and 1970s, as the company established subsidiaries in Eastern Europe, most notably Dacia in Romania, and South America ( many of which remain active to the present day ) and forged technological cooperation agreements with Volvo and Peugeot ( for instance, for the development of the PRV V6 engine, which was used in Renault 30, Peugeot 604, and Volvo 260 in the late 1970s.

Volvo announced that they will withdraw their compact station wagon, the V50, from the U. S market by 2012 due to poor sales figures.

The first single released to radio from Slow Motion Daydream was " Volvo Driving Soccer Mom ", followed by second single " The New York Times ".

The car's body distinctively used stainless steel and featured gull-wing doors and was powered by the " Douvrin " V6 engine developed by Peugeot, Renault and Volvo.

* Convertibles such as the second generation Ford Thunderbird ( 1958 ) convertible and the fourth generation Mercedes SL popularized the complex electro-hydraulic roof mechanism that automatically secured the folded top under a rigid tonneau – button activated by a seated driver – and later more routinely available on convertibles such as the Volvo C70, Chrysler Sebring and Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder.

* The Volvo C70, its retractable hardtop manufactured by Webasto includes a global window switch that allows simultaneous raising or lowering of all windows, and a button to power-activate the raising of the folded top stack within the trunk to access cargo below.

The accident, which was the event through which their relationship became public, occurred when the rented BMW Broderick was driving crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on into a Volvo driven by a local mother and daughter, Anna Gallagher 28, and Margaret Doherty 63, who were killed instantly in the accident.

The new Ford Focus RS performance car uses the same Volvo 5-cylinder engine, developed ( by Ford ) to very similar power levels, and is one of the most powerful FWD production cars ever created. Another example of a high power 5 cylinder car is the Audi RS2, with its 2. 2 turbocharged engine making 311 hp.

All of the inline five engines used by Volvo and Ford are built at the Volvo Skövde engine plant in Skövde, Sweden.