Daily Turismo: Seller Submission: 2006 Volvo V70R

The Volvo Group (Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo) (stylized as VOLVO) can be a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity may be the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services. In 2016, it turned out the world's second largest manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks.Automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars, also located in Gothenburg, was portion of AB Volvo until 1999, when it absolutely was sold for the Ford Motor Company. Since 2010 it is often owned by the Geely Holding Group, a Chinese multinational automotive manufacturing company. Both AB Volvo and Volvo Cars share the Volvo logo and cooperate in running the Volvo Museum in Sweden.The company was initially listed about the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935, and was about the NASDAQ indices from 1985 to 2007.Volvo was established in 1915 to be a subsidiary of SKF, a ball bearing manufacturer; however the Volvo Group and Volvo Cars regard the rollout from the company's first car series, the Volvo ÖV 4, on 14 April 1927, as his or her beginning. The building remains.The name Volvo was originally registered like a trademark in May 1911 with all the intention to be utilized for a new group of SKF ball bearings. It means "I roll" in Latin, conjugated from "volvere". The idea was short-lived, and SKF thought we would simply use its initials as being the trademark for everyone its bearing products.In 1924, Assar Gabrielsson, an SKF sales director, along with a KTH Royal Institute of Technology educated engineer Gustav Larson, both the founders,[clarification needed] made a decision to start construction of an Swedish car. They that will build cars that can withstand the rigors with the country's rough roads and cold temperatures.AB Volvo began activities on 10 August 1926. After one full year of preparations between production of ten prototypes, the firm was willing to commence the car-manufacturing business inside SKF group. The Volvo Group itself considers it began in 1927, in the event the first car, a Volvo ÖV 4, rolled off of the production line on the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg. Only 280 cars were built that year. The first truck, the "Series 1", debuted in January 1928, being an immediate success and attracted attention outside of the country. In 1930, Volvo sold 639 cars, as well as the export of trucks to Europe started right after; the cars wouldn't become well-known outside Sweden until after World War II. AB Volvo was introduced on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935 and SKF then thought we would sell its shares inside company. By 1942, Volvo acquired the Swedish precision engineering company Svenska Flygmotor (later renamed as Volvo Aero).Pentaverken, which have manufactured engines for Volvo, was acquired in 1935, providing a safe and secure supply of engines and entry in to the marine engine market.The first bus, named B1, was published in 1934, and aircraft engines were added towards the growing range of products for the beginning on the 1940s. In 1963, Volvo opened the Volvo Halifax Assembly plant, the very first assembly plant from the company's history beyond Sweden in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.In 1950, Volvo acquired the Swedish construction and agricultural equipment manufacturer Bolinder-Munktell. Bolinder-Munktell was renamed as Volvo BM in 1973. In 1979, Volvo BM's agricultural equipment business was sold to Valmet. Later, through restructuring and acquisitions, the rest of the construction equipment business became Volvo Construction Equipment.

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