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Headline: 'Volvo to build cars in US' 200

posted by  Aye Roll on  Thu Apr 10 21:52 CST 2003
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Well, that's the gem I dug up in my collection of old Road & Track magazines.
In the summer of 1974, Volvo announced that it would build a new assembly plant in Chesapeake Virginia. They cited a couple of important factors, one being that a labor shortage in Sweden forced them to look elsewhere for more capacity. The US had no shortage of unemployed workers at the time. Also, new emissions and safety standards were forcing Volvo to build very different cars for the US market. It was hoped that by 1980, the new plant would be producing all of the US-model Volvos.

The question is, what happened to these plans? Obviously, this deal never got off the ground. Volvo never built cars in the States. The way this story was written, it sounded like the deal was done and they were about to break ground on the plant. I don't have the follow-up article to confirm that the deal fell through or whether it even got off the ground.

Anybody know anything about this?

BTW see my new site at www.bareiss.net/volvo/volvo.html
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: '86 244DL- 215K, 87 244DL- 230K, 88 744GLE- 198K, 91 244 180K






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