Talk:Volvo C70
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All Volvos have been manufactured by the Ford Motor Company since Ford's acquisition of Volvo in 1998. This is simply fact. So what is the dispute here? And furthermore, why is this dispute taking place on the C70 page specifically? Also, Pininfarina was a designer of the C70, not its manufacturer. Jagvar 03:35, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
- See the Pininfarina Sverige part of the Pininfarina article. --Dahlis 16:49, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Actually, even though Ford owns Volvo, there is still a lot of "pre-Ford" Volvo manufacturing content in most Volvo models. The basic platforms are from Ford, although even there, there has been shared design input from Ford, Volvo, and others in the family (e.g. Mazda).
In the case of the 2006+ C70, the platform is Ford's C1, designed jointly by Ford of Europe, Volvo, and Mazda, and used on current Volvo (S40, V50, C30) and Mazda models (Mazda 3 and 5), as well as the European Ford Focus (but not the US Ford Focus). The engines are Volvo designs that go back to pre-Ford days, and are manufactured in Sweden. The automatic transmission for the C70 is made in Japan. Car assembly is done at the Uddevalla (spelling?) plant in Sweden, which is 60% owned by Pininfarina, and 40% by Volvo. I believe that the C70 is the only car made at this plant, using a process that is more "hand-built" / "team-built", rather than a traditional assembly line. In terms of Pininfarina's involvement, most of the articles that I have read have said that Pininfarina had little design involvement, at least not in the styling, which was done by Volvo's John Kinsey. They may have contributed to the engineering of the retractable roof, and of course are co-owners of the C70's manufacturing plant. Rschleicher 22:52, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
