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[edit] Volvo selling to BMW
The link to the blog is a dead link.
Well ithink that volvo has to less of models.
Answer Ford Motor Company might change that. Developing automobiles these days are expensive, competitors from Korea and other Asian countries can produce att much less cost, so westen countries must stick together an cooporate, one of the reasons why Volvo decided to sell the business to Ford. In 1929 SKF was very close to sell the auotmobile business to Charles Nash but the bord of directors was convinced to wait a while. The first year Volvo showed som profit was in 1930. Not easy to manufacture automobiles in a country with only 8.5 milj . people. Lorries and busses are much better to produce.
/Bodalbo, Sweden.
[edit] Volvo inventions timeline.
I have removed the claim that Volvo was the first to introduce rear seat belts in 1967. While Volvo may have been the first to bring this to the market, the year is definitely wrong. Other manufacturers such as Chrysler built cars with rear seat belts prior to 1967. Perhaps someone who knows more about Volvos can come up with the correct year for rear seatbelts and verify whether Volvo installed them first.
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"Nils Bohlin of Sweden invented a particular kind of three point seat belt for Volvo, who introduced it in 1959 as standard equipment. Bohlin was granted U.S. Patent 3,043,625 for the device." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.61.142 (talk) 14:46, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Use of the word "invented"
While I commend Volvo for being among the first to adopt new safety features, I do not think the use of the word "invented" is appropriate. "Implemented" or "adopted" would suffice, and it wouldn't give Volvo more credit than it is due. While I am not familiar with the inventors of every feature in the list, I do know, according to other Wikipedia articles, that the Anti-lock braking system and airbag were not "invented" by Volvo. This section needs some attribution and cleaning up.
- I took the freedom to change that highly idiotic sentence. Now the only problem is to sort out the security features that Volvo "really" did invent and mark them, or copy them another list. //Taz0k 19:33, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
- as to Volvo history timeline Volvo in 1959 pioneered the three-point seat belt that became standard equipment in all their passenger cars. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Starupryden (talk • contribs) 15:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC).
So, I was wondering why the Volvo logo is a male sign? Osillaj 05:02, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Possible copyright violation
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The introduction is a lightly edited copy of http://www.volvo.com/group/global/en-gb/Volvo+Group/worldwide/ - and other parts of the article are suspiciously like marketing, with talk of how the logo is identified with corporate values and things like that, but I can't find direct copies of those phrases in Google. --Closeapple 21:21, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
- Some wanker was paid to write this article or something...somebody add some controversies or something. 71.68.17.30 18:17, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
