Volvos Made in Belgium?

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My 1992 Volvo 740 wagon was made in Belgium with all kinds of hardware from
Sweden, Germany, England, France, and even Japan (electrical).

If you had a 740 intercooled Turbo from that year, the turbo would have been
Japanese as well (mitsubishi).
 
Sorry, I meant 1991 740 wagon.

John

My 1992 Volvo 740 wagon was made in Belgium with all kinds of hardware from
Sweden, Germany, England, France, and even Japan (electrical).

My 1962 Porsche Roadster was also made in Belgium. The body, that is, which
was then shipped to Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen.

John

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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:27:22 GMT, Joseph Oberlander

; metaxaman wrote:
;
; > Volvo 66
; > Volvo 340/360
; > Volvo 440/460/480
; > Volvo S40/V40 (will be produced until June 300, 2004)
; >
; > Those models were made in the Netherlands: Well over 2 million in
total.
;
; What will happen to the plant after that? Also - weren't some 240s
made
; in that plant as well? The cars from that plant seem to be made
pretty
; well - so a V40 should be a good car to consider. I just wish they
had
; the turbo-4 in stickshift available over here.

The Born plant is owned by Mitsubishi (actually Daimler-Chrysler)
since buying out Volvo). Volvo S/V40's will still be made there
untill the end of June 2004 under the terms of the MMC/VCC contracts
(Volvo Cars is still present in Born with its X40 Plant Vehicle Team).

In March 2004 the new Smart ForFour (nice car by the way; a bit
expensive though) will be released for sales (the car is already
being produced in Born). Later this year another two small Mitsubishi
models (successors to the current Colt) will go into production.

Regards,
Metaxaman
 
Metaxaman said:
The Born plant is owned by Mitsubishi (actually Daimler-Chrysler)
since buying out Volvo).

Actually, Mitsubishi bought out Volvo Car's INTEREST in the Born plant,
not Volvo itself. Ford bought out Volvo Cars. Volvo Trucks, Penta,
Construction Equipment, Buses, Finance, Aero, etc. still are under the
original Swedish Volvo banner which is now called Volvo Groups.
 
740's for the N.A market were assembled from container'd Euro parts in
Dartmouth, N.S. The 760's continued to be assembled in Sweden due to their
interior and HVAC requirements. All that leather...all that insane
auto-climate stuff.
That being said, the parts came from all over. 740/60 owners will note that
there are many French/German parts on these cars. I even had a GM power
steering pump on my 82 245DL, assembled in Dartmouth.
The Dartmouth assembly plant used teams of 6 persons on each car, start to
finish. That was a cool feature. Uncool feature? Engine blocks sitting
unprotected on the loading dock, next to the recieving door, for weeks at a
time.

BTW, I won't be posting comments on this subject again; this is the 3rd time
this thread has come up in the recent past...do your research before you
ask, y'all. :-)

RS
 
Speaking of research...the plant was on the waterfront in HALIFAX (other
side of the harbour) until it was moved to the Bayers Lake Industrial Park ,
also in HALIFAX NS.

K.
(in Halifax)
 
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