Talk:Volvo

message: If non-corporate links are inappropriate, should we understand that article is pure advertisement for Volvo itself?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Villager57 (talk • contribs) 22:01, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: External Links

message: Is it just me or does it seem that they way that the whole section is written sounds like a total advertisement?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.68.199 (talk) 13:26, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I thought so too. --oKtosiTe talk 19:41, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The Volvo Brand Section

message: 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. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MattCramer (talk • contribs) 12:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volvo inventions timeline. 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: Removing; it's been written out ages ago. Sennecaster (Chat) 23:11, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible copyright violation

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thread_title:  Image copyright problem with Image:Markus Brier 450px.jpg 

message: Volvo, which is bigger and healthier than its Swedish rival, may be sold to Geely, China’s biggest privately owned carmaker. is from the ECONOMIST.
so i believe this should be in then article and then some — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peppermintschnapps (talk • contribs) 23:25, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Once the sale is confirmed, yes. Not yet. Rd232 talk 10:55, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  sale of volvo 

message: Volvo V60 - anyone want to clean up or merge this new article? Rd232 talk 10:54, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volvo V60 

message: I think Volvo AB should redirect here and not to Vulva. I don't know enough about wikipedia to change this myself, so I just point it out here.
Gr8tmir (talk) 14:25, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Rich Farmbrough, 21:08, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: I propose that Ingersoll-Rand ABG be merged into Volvo. I think that the content in the Ingersoll-Rand ABG article can easily be explained in the context of Volvo, and the BarVolvo article is of a reasonable size in which the merging of Ingersoll-Rand ABG will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. JanetteDoe (talk) 13:34, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it would fit better in Volvo Construction Equipment. 81.164.106.236 (talk) 19:52, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: Could someone investigate the fact that until long after WW2 all Volvo parts including the engine ,were actually made in Britain at British car plants? Sweden did not have the presses etc to make car parts  etc.The cars were designed and assembled in Sweden. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.99.38.208 (talk) 2012-07-09
The only British connection that I am aware of is that Gustaf Larsson (co-founder) spent some time at British car manufacturer(s) in his formative years and (it is said) brought some of that engineering perspective to the Volvo brand. The early P1800 bodies were built in Britain (Scotland actually) and shipped to Sweden because Volvo did not have the production capacity to integrate this model into their regular production line and the production volumes were so low it did not make business sense.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.4.24.60 (talk) 04:31, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: THE BRITISH CONNECTION?

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Volvo's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "AR2011":
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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 14:29, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Volvo]] 

message: 'In early models, Volvos have also been know to explode due to the engine being to close to the gas tank and igniting the tank. This myth was very popular during the 1940's.' - I have spent some time searching on the internet for something more about this, but can't find any references whatsoever. For what it's worth, my conclusion is that this sentence is spurious.
:It also doesn't make any sense. "Have been known" <=> "This myth": Now is it a myth or did it really happen? Should definitely be taken out unless someone finds references. 188.100.144.230 (talk) 18:24, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And yet, here I am some 16 months after this sentence "should definitely be taken out" readin the sentence in the article.  It's gone now.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Weasley one (talk • contribs) 14:57, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Exploding Volvos

message: Though Volvo guarantees about the safety standards it has setup in all the buses,45 people were burnt(Hyderabad-Bangalore Highway,India) alive after the emergency response systems and emergency exit failed.Still,volvo was not ready to accept the fault.
122.178.211.233 (talk) 08:46, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Inclusion will need to be based on sources for (a) the incident itself; (b) where the fault lies; (c) how the fault arose; and (d) any comment that Volvo (and/or other potentially involved parties) have made on the record. We can't include statements about things like this unless they are supported by reliable sources. --Stfg (talk) 09:55, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accidents: 

message: How's the word pronounced? Thanks. 24.215.188.243 (talk) 08:08, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation guide? 

message: It has been sold to the Chinese company Geely, it is then a Chinese company and not Swedish anymore, or? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:51:4b58:18cd:d4d:1c15:5196:fc64 (talk) 08:49, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No, you're wrong. This Volvo wasn't sold to Geely. The company owned by Geely is Volvo Cars, a former Volvo's division which was divested in 1999. Volvo Cars it's similar in a certain way to Volvo-owned Renault Trucks, being it a former Renault's subsidiary. Besides, Volvo Cars, although owned by a Chinese corporation, continues being a Swedish company, because its registered office and headquarters are still in Sweden. Regards. --Urbanoc (talk) 12:56, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swedish Company 

message: Volvo is now owned by Geely of China  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.52.13.15 (talk) 16:08, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Reliable source? - BilCat (talk) 18:55, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Owned by Geely 

message: I've had a word with the apparently "official" editor. I've watched the page, but if the disruption resumes, please let me know.Dlohcierekim (talk) 22:40, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  disruptive edits 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The all new SPA platform is created after VOLVO has become part of the Geely Corporation. It fits various of new techniques such as hybrid system and new form of rear suspension on Volvo's new products. Due to the SPA platform, Volvo enabled the advanced technologies on its new products.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.249.112.72 (talk) 16:21, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know what's your point, the SPA has nothing to do with this Volvo but Volvo Cars which was spun off from this company a long time ago and it's indeed (at present) a consolidated  Geely subsidiary. --Urbanoc (talk) 23:16, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Scalable Product Architecture 

message: I'll let these proposed changes to the article for a few days, if anyone wants to make proposals/objections:
I plan to create a new section ("Corporate") and convert others (as "Business") into subsections.
The next bit is to be added to "Business":
To be added to "History":
 
To be added to "Production facilities" ( a new "Corporate" subsection):
 
Volvo production sites as of October 2022                          	Volvo production sites as of October 2022
Company                                                            	Plants
Volvo Trucks                                                       	
Renault Trucks                                                     	
Mack Trucks                                                        	
Volvo Construction Equipment                                       	
Volvo Buses                                                        	
VE Commercial Vehicles                                             	
Dongfeng Truck                                                     	
SDLG                                                               	
Volvo Penta                                                        	
Notes                                                              	Notes
Companies with a light blue background are minority owned by Volvo.	Companies with a light blue background are minority owned by Volvo.
Sources                                                            	Sources
                                                                   	
 Urbanoc (talk) 02:06, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: This weekend, I plan to introduce a version of the above (with minor tweaks) into the article. You can still revert me, but please explain your reasoning here when doing so. --Urbanoc (talk) 21:37, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work on the expansion! TylerBurden (talk) 05:53, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article expansion proposal