Volvo Cars Gent

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The Volvo Cars Gent NV (until 2007 Volvo Cars Europe Industry NV ) is an automobile manufacturer from the port area of the city of Ghent in Belgium . The company has existed since 1965 and has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Volvo Car Corporation ever since . The company is known for its automobile production for both European and international trade. Around 5,000 people are employed here (March 2018). Around 240,000 vehicles were manufactured at the site in 2017.

The Volvo V60 (including Cross Country) and Volvo XC40 (since November 2017) roll off the assembly line at the Flemish plant. The XC60 , produced in Ghent from 2008 to 2017, was the first SUV from the Flemish Volvo plant.

In the vehicle identification number, the plant uses the world manufacturer code YB1 and YB2 for complete vehicles and YB3 for spare parts and CKD kits that are intended for assembly at other plants.

Former model ranges

Work in the plant began in autumn 1965 with the assembly of the identical models 120 , 121 , 122 and 130 , which rolled off the assembly line here as a sister model of the Swedish Amazon in the body shapes of notchback sedans, coupé and station wagon. When various model types were discontinued in 1967, only the 130 model remained, which was continued to be built until the end of 1969. The discontinued models, however, had been replaced by the Volvo 140 , which was available as a notchback sedan (P 144) and a station wagon (P 145).

After almost six years of production, Volvo finally established the 240 model on the European market in 1974 , again as a notchback sedan or station wagon.

As early as 1983, almost two years before the end of local production of the 240 series, the successor models 740 and 760 were launched. After a technical revision, the model was also available under the designation 940 from 1991 , but was discontinued the following year together with its two older sister models. The more modern 850 was introduced to European markets along with the 940. Volvo had built the 850 here until 1996. All of these four models were available as both a notchback sedan and a station wagon.

As a replacement for the 850, Volvo launched the S70 notchback sedan and the V70 station wagon in the summer of 1996 , both of which were still very reminiscent of their predecessors. In the new millennium there was a new style at Volvo. The S60 notchback sedan was new ; the station wagon was replaced by the second generation of the V70 . For the compact class, however, there were the S40 and V50 models from 2003 , which were almost the same as the S60 and V70 mid-range models . For a short time there was also the coupé variant called C30 in this style , the production of which was discontinued in December 2012.

Model overview

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Volvo factory in Ghent. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Volvo Car Group Annual Report 2017. Accessed January 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Boris Schmidt, Stefan Thiele: Volvo: types, cult, design, all models up to the XC60 . 1st edition. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-7688-2521-4 , p. 16 ff .
  4. ↑ WELT: More than security made from Swedish steel: Tradition: 60 years of Volvo in Germany . June 11, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed January 22, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Volvo Gent reads C30. August 29, 2013, accessed January 22, 2019 (Dutch).
  6. ↑ Volvo Car Gent start with productie van hybrid model. Retrieved April 15, 2018 (Flemish).
  7. ↑ Volvo start productie of the very first small premium SUV in Belgium. Retrieved April 15, 2018 (Flemish).