• @woelkchen
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    128 months ago

    Volvo already is a Chinese brand because it’s owned by Geely. It’s not an independent Swedish car maker that just happened to outsource production to China.

    • @NIB
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      8 months ago

      It is chinese owned but Volvo is still a thing in Sweden. Geely bought them(Volvo Cars), gave them infinite money, so that Volvo could design and make cars like the 2nd gen xc90. In return Geely acquired the technology and know how on how to make quality cars.

      Nowadays, Volvo can combine their world leading car design with Geely’s electric vehicle platforms. Thats how you get a car like upcoming volvo ex30, that is cheap and (probably) good.

      When Volvo was owned by Ford, it was about to go the way of the Dodo(aka Saab). Geely saved it and made it a competitive car brand.

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        28 months ago

        GM killed off SAAB for no good reason. We could have had Koenigsegg as the owner of SAAB…

        • @[email protected]
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          28 months ago

          GM almost killed Opel, until Peugeot saved them.

          I don’t know how GM operates but it doesn’t look healthy.