66 Facts About Volvo VCC

Volvo VCC Cars is a Swedish multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles headquartered in Torslanda, Gothenburg.

Volvo VCC Cars was publicly listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange in 2021, though Geely still retains majority ownership.

In March 2021, Volvo VCC Cars announced that it would be a fully electric brand by 2030.

Volvo VCC was founded upon the concept of safety in 1927, in Gothenburg, Sweden:.

Trademark Volvo VCC was first registered by SKF on 11 May 1915 with the intention to use it for a special series of ball bearing for the American market but it was never used for this purpose .

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Some pre-series of Volvo VCC-bearings stamped with the brand name 'Volvo VCC' were manufactured but never released to the market, and it was not until 1927 that the trademark was used again, now as a trademark and company name for an automobile.

In 1963, Volvo VCC opened the Volvo VCC Halifax Assembly plant, the first assembly plant in the company's history outside of Sweden, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

In 1964, Volvo VCC opened its Torslanda plant in Sweden, which currently is one of its largest production sites .

Volvo VCC nearly merged with Saab in the late seventies, while in 1978 an aborted affair would have seen the Norwegian state take over 40 percent of the company.

In return, Volvo VCC would receive 200 million SEK and a ten percent concession in the Oseberg oil field.

The buyout of Volvo VCC Cars was announced on 28 January 1999, and in the following year the acquisition was completed at a price of US$6.

Ford decided to restructure plans for Volvo VCC Cars, pushing it further upmarket, alongside the lower end of Mercedes and BMW sedans, wagons, and SUV crossovers.

On 28 October 2009, Ford confirmed that, after considering several offers, the preferred buyer of Volvo VCC Cars was Geely Holding Group, the parent of motor manufacturer Geely Automobile.

In 2015, Volvo VCC sold more than half a million cars for the first time in its 89-year history.

Volvo VCC reported strong sales from all three core global regions.

Implementation of the announcement could mean Volvo VCC becoming the first manufacturer to end production of internal combustion-only vehicles, with all vehicles hybrid or electric powered.

In 2021, Volvo VCC Cars set up a joint venture with Geely for its hybrid engine operations.

Volvo VCC cars have long been marketed as safe and the company has stressed their historic reputation for solidity and reliability in marketing campaigns.

Volvo VCC uses high-tech safety systems as standard equipment in new vehicles.

Additionally, Volvo VCC developed the first rear-facing child seat in 1964 and introduced its own booster seat in 1978.

In 1994, to add to its SIPS, Volvo VCC was the first to introduce side airbags and installed them as standard equipment in all models from 1995.

In 1995, the Volvo VCC 745 was recalled as the front seatbelt mounts could break in a collision.

In 1998, Volvo VCC installed a head-protecting airbag, which was made standard in all new models as well as some existing models.

In 1998, Volvo VCC introduced its Whiplash Protection System, a safety device to prevent injury to front seat users during collisions.

In 2004, Volvo VCC introduced the Blind Spot Information System, which detects vehicles entering the vehicle's blind spot with a side-view-mirror-mounted camera, and alerts the driver with a light.

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In 2005, Volvo VCC presented the second generation of Volvo VCC C70, which came with extra stiff door-mounted inflatable side curtains dubbed 'DMIC'.

Volvo VCC has patented all its safety innovations, including SIPS, WHIPS, ROPS, DSTC, and body structures.

In 2005, when the American non-profit, non-governmental Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released its first annual "Top Safety Picks" vehicles list, none of Volvo VCC's offered vehicles in the US were included on the list.

Dan Johnston, a Volvo VCC spokesman, denied that the company's vehicles were any less safe than the institute's top-rated vehicles, adding that.

However, according to the IIHS, in recent years Volvo VCC cars have still managed to maintain their high class safety ratings as seen in test results.

The second generation Volvo VCC V40 got the best test result of any car model ever tested by Euro NCAP at the time.

In July 2017, Volvo VCC announced that new models launched from 2019 onward would be fully electric or hybrid-electric, heralding the end of production of nearly a century of Volvo VCC vehicles powered solely by the internal combustion engine.

Volvo VCC will continue to produce non-electric, non-hybrid cars from models introduced before that year but will discontinue them once the non-hybrid, non-electric cars receive a facelift or complete redesign.

In 2019, Volvo VCC announced that it plans to produce only electrified cars from the year 2040 onwards.

Volvo VCC dropped the meaning of the final digit for later cars like the 740, but the digit continued to identify cars underhood on the identification plate.

When Volvo VCC introduced the first generation S40 and V40 in 1995, they were announced as the S4 and F4.

Volvo VCC agreed to add a second digit, so the vehicles became the S40 and F40.

In 2019, Volvo VCC announced that it plans to produce only fully electrified cars from the year 2040 onwards.

In March 2021, Volvo VCC doubled down on these plans and committed to being an electric-only car maker by 2030.

In 2005, Volvo VCC introduced to the Swedish market the company's first E85 flexifuel models.

Volvo VCC introduced its S40 and V50 with flexible-fuel engines, joined in late 2006 by the then new C30.

All Volvo VCC models were initially restricted to the Swedish market, until 2007, when these three models were launched in eight new European markets.

Volvo VCC ReCharge is a plug-in hybrid concept car with an all-electric range of 60 miles .

On 1 June 2009, Volvo VCC announced the launching of series production diesel-electric plug-in hybrids by 2012.

Volvo VCC C30 DRIVe Electric concept car was exhibited at the 2010 Paris Motor Show and Volvo VCC announced that field testing will begin in 2011, in the US, Europe, and China.

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Volvo VCC uses in-line, or straight engines in their production vehicles.

Volvo VCC is known for the application of the in-line 5-cylinder engine to its vehicle line up since its introduction in 1991 in the Volvo VCC 850.

In 1964, Volvo VCC made heavy investments in the Safari Rally, entering four Volvo VCC PV544s in the 1964 competition.

Volvo VCC entered the European Touring Car Championship with the Volvo VCC 240 Turbo in the 1980s.

In 1985, Volvo VCC signed Swiss engine guru Ruedi Eggenberger to run its works team through Eggenberger Motorsport.

Volvo VCC contracted Belgian based team RAS Sport to be its works team in the ETCC in 1986, following Eggenberger moving to race Ford Sierra's.

Volvo VCC saw success in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft, with a 240 Turbo driven by Per Stureson winning the 1985 DTM.

Volvo VCC entered the British Touring Car Championship in the 1990s with Tom Walkinshaw Racing.

TWR then built and ran the works 850 Saloon, with six wins in 1995, and five wins in 1996, and a S40, with one win in 1997 in the BTCC, as well as Volvo VCC placing third in the Manufacturers Championship, both in 1995 and 1996.

In 1998, TWR Volvo VCC won the British Touring Car Championship with Rickard Rydell driving the S40R.

Volvo VCC competed in the Super Touring category with the 850 across Europe and in Australia.

Volvo VCC drove an 850 saloon in the 1996 Australian Super Touring Championship, placing sixth in the Drivers' Championship.

Volvo VCC regularly entered the S60 in the Swedish Touring Car Championship, where it finished 2nd in the drivers' championship twice and won the manufacturers' title once.

In 2008, Volvo VCC entered the Swedish Touring Car Championship with a C30 powered by bioethanol E85 fuel.

Volvo VCC had signalled their intentions to enter the 2009 British Touring Car Championship with the same car.

Volvo VCC entered the V8 Supercars Championship with two S60s in 2014 with Garry Rogers Motorsport, and were immediately competitive.

Volvo VCC has, since the 1950s, had special international sales programs for customers assigned abroad, for example Diplomat Sales, Military Sales and Expat Sales.

In 2011, Volvo VCC Cars is the main sponsor of the winter sports and music festival Snowbombing in Austria.

In 2015, Volvo VCC signed a deal with Chennaiyin FC, a football franchise team of the Indian Super League as a side shirt sponsor.

In 1990, Volvo VCC Cars filed a lawsuit against Hong Kong-based Club Volvo VCC night club for infringement in Hong Kong High Court.

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Since then, Club Volvo VCC had been renamed to Club Borubo, and then Club Bboss .