Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus

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Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus
Owner / user MAN Latin America
Introductory year 1958
Markets South America , South Africa
Website https://www.man-la.com/produtos-volkswagen

Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus is a truck and bus brand that was sold by Volkswagen AG to MAN in 2009 , and has been under the umbrella of Volkswagen AG again since 2011 when MAN was taken over by VW . The brand will continue to be run as "Volkswagen" even after the company trades under the name MAN Latin America .

history

VW 13.130 from 1981

The beginnings of the brand go back to Simca , who founded its Brazilian subsidiary Simca do Brasil in 1958 . In 1966, Chrysler took over 92% and a year later Simca do Brasil completely. Chrysler has been producing Dodge trucks at the plant since 1969 .

The Volkswagen AG took over in 1979, initially 67% of the now as Chrysler Motors do Brasil Ltda. company and increased its stake to 100% a year later. In 2000, the truck and bus division officially became part of the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brand of VW.

In November 1996, today's main plant was opened in Resende , Brazil, which is around 150 kilometers from Rio de Janeiro and 250 km from São Paulo . In 2004 the plant in Mexico was opened and in 2007 the production of trucks started in a third plant in South Africa .

The main markets are Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, the remaining South and Central American countries as well as Africa and the Middle East. Individual dealers in the USA, Spain, Germany and China are also listed on the company website.

MAN took over the truck and bus division in 2009 and continues to operate it under the “Volkswagen” brand. 2011, the division went through the acquisition of MAN in the Volkswagen AG back.

In 2018, the VW Group's truck and bus businesses were merged under Traton and prepared for an IPO .

Models

VW Worker in the racing version
construction time model series annotation image
since 2006 VW Constellation heavy truck VW Constellation BRA.JPG
since 2006 VW Worker medium truck Caminhaocegonha.jpg
since 2006 VW Delivery 5 or 8 ton trucks 2006 VW Delivery 8-150.jpg
since 2006 VW Volksbus Omnibus chassis Cidade verde 14170.jpg

Motorsport

Both the Constellation and the Worker are used in motorsport.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ MAN Latin America