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.

The port houses, among others, big companies like Arcelor-Mittal, Volvo Cars, Volvo Trucks, Volvo Parts, Honda, and Stora Enso.

Volvo Cars sponsored the creation of a 2004 advertisement, Game: On, the first film to combine machinima and live action.

In 1999, Volvo sold its car division Volvo Cars to Ford Motor Company for $ 6. 45 billion.

Volvo stopped posting profits in 2005 and in 2008, Ford decided to sell its interest in Volvo Cars ; in August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo to the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile for $ 1. 8 billion.

DAF sold its passenger car division, along with what is now the NedCar factory in Born, in 1975 to the Swedish company Volvo Cars, leaving DAF to concentrate on its successful line of trucks.

Volvo Cars of North America, Customer Relations, a Swedish company that manufactures safety-oriented automobiles, maintains an American headquarters in Rockleigh.

Straight-6 engines are used in some models from BMW, Ford Australia, Chevrolet, GMC, Toyota, Suzuki and Volvo Cars.

Currently Volvo Cars uses the straight five-cylinder engine as their mainstay engine in every vehicle in the lineup.

Cars such as the Nissan Skyline, Saab, Volvo 200 Series Turbo, Volvo 700 Series ( and 900 series ) turbo, Dodge SRT-4, 1st gen Mazda MX-6, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and Chevrolet Cobalt SS all use front mounted intercooler ( s ) mounted near the front bumper, in line with the car's radiator.

The PRV engine is an automobile petrol V6 engine that was developed jointly by Peugeot, Renault and Volvo Cars – and sold from 1974 to 1998.

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The compact car was introduced in August 1975, almost exactly a year after Volvo Cars bought DAF, and before production of the Volvo 300 Series began.

The Volvo Amazon is a mid-size car manufactured by Volvo Cars from 1956 to 1970 and introduced in the USA as the 122S at the New York International Auto Show in April 1959.

From 2001 the ownership of the race was taken over by Volvo and Volvo Cars and the race was renamed the ‘ Volvo Ocean Race ’.

Although Volvo was incorporated in 1915 as a subsidiary of AB SKF, a Swedish ball bearing manufacturer, the auto manufacturer considers itself officially founded on 14 April 1927, when the first car, the Volvo ÖV 4 series, affectionately known as " Jakob ", rolled out of the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg.

The name Volvo was originally registered in May 1911 as a separate company within SKF AB and as a registered trademark with the intention to be used for a special series of ball bearing, but this idea was only used for a short period of time and SKF decided to use " SKF " as the trademark for all its bearing products.

The company AB Volvo had no activities until 10 August 1926, after one year of preparations involving the production of ten prototypes, was set up to carry out the car-manufacturing business within the SKF group.

AB Volvo was introduced at the Stockholm stock exchange in 1935 and SKF then decided to sell its shares in the company.

Volvo was delisted from NASDAQ in June 2007, but remains listed on the Stockholm exchange.

The Volvo trademark was shared between Volvo AB, where it is used on heavy vehicles, and the unit of Ford, where it was used on cars.

On 2 January 2001, Renault Véhicules Industriels ( which included Mack Trucks, but not Renault's stake in Irisbus ) was sold to Volvo, which renamed it Renault Trucks in 2002.

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.

The first car with three point belt was a Volvo PV 544 that was delivered to a dealer in Kristianstad on August 13, 1959.

However, the first car model to feature the three point seat belt as a standard item was the 1959 Volvo 122, first outfitted with a two-point belt at initial delivery in 1958, replaced with the three point seat belt the following year.

In the early 1990s Volvo introduced the Volvo Environmental Concept Car ( ECC ) which was a gas turbine powered hybrid car.

Son Reed Cross was named after a London street because " Volvo isn't a very good middle name ", according to Howard.

The DAF 46 was developed under Volvo, and was basically a 44, with the rear axle of a 66 and a single-belt variomatic ( half the 66's transmission ).

Dalarö was the location of an internationally notable Volvo commercial.

Autocar remained a part of Volvo until 2000, when the trademark was withdrawn from the market, and was subsequently sold to Grand Vehicle Works together with the Xpeditor low cab forward heavy duty product, which remains in production to this day under the Autocar badge, the last vestige of what was once America's leading commercial vehicle producer.

Bryant then got into the BMW having left behind a number of items in his Volvo, including his Daewoo shotgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

These were then replaced in some markets by a high-roof version of the Volvo 145, called the Express.

Geely Holding Group then acquired Volvo from Ford in 2010.

The Italian Carrozzeria Pietro Frua design firm ( then a recently acquired subsidiary of Ghia ) built from Sep 1957 to spring 1958 the first three prototypes, later designated by Volvo in September 1958: P958-X1, P958-X2 and P958-X3, ( P: Project 9: September 58: Year 1958 = P958 )

He then changed magazines before fleeing, shooting at people in the car park and from his yellow Volvo sedan as he drove away.

Pressed Steel manufactured the body-shells at their Linwood plant in Scotland and shipped them to Jensen in West Bromwich to be finished, painted and trimmed, before then being shipped to Sweden where Volvo completed the final build.

Volvo acquired Penta in 1935 and Volvo Penta has been part of the Volvo Group since then.

Penta then designed the four cylinder 28 hp side valve Typ DA engine for the Volvo ÖV 4.

During those years in European markets, its companion was initially the smaller Volvo 66, then its replacement, the 300 series.

In 1996, super low floor single-deckers were introduced in Hong Kong, Citybus introduced ten Volvo B6LE, then KMB followed by introducing 12 Dennis Dart SLF buses.

After Volvo was ordered to discontinue its ownership in Scania, the shares were placed in a separate holding company, which was then divested to the Volvo shareholders, and also traded on the NASDAQ OMX Group marketplace Nya Marknanden, today First North.

In late 1999, Volvo delivered one Volgren CR222LD-bodied Super Olympian ( body assembled in Australia ) to the then Singapore Bus Service as a demonstrator.

Singapore Bus Service then ordered a further 51 Volvo Super Olympian chassis.

Spearheading the initiative was Pehr Gyllenhammar, then chief executive of Volvo.

Since then, Prodrive has run touring car programmes for Alfa Romeo ( BTCC champions 1994 ) for Honda, for Ford ( BTCC champions in 2000 ) and with Volvo in FIA European Touring Car Championship ( ETCC ).

Building cars in the Netherlands also helped the Swedish Volvo to access the markets of the EEC, of which Sweden was then not yet a member.

He then had three more second place finishes during the season before winning the season ending Volvo Masters, his fourth career victory, taking Clarke to 2nd place on the final Order of Merit standings behind Colin Montgomerie.

Volvo B7RLE is a low-floor single-deck citybus launched initially in Australia in 2001, and then in the United Kingdom in 2003 to supplement the B7L single-decker, which was unsuccessful in both countries.

The R-Series was principally a competitor to the various Bedford chassis that were also successful during the same era, both makes being cheaper alternatives to offerings from the then market leader Leyland and later foreign imports such as Volvo and DAF.

It was one of the first cars ( the other two being the Peugeot 604 and Volvo 264 ) to use the then newly introduced 2664 cc PRV V6 engine, which was developed jointly between Peugeot, Renault and Volvo ; the PRV produced and could power the R30 to a top speed of.