Which Dutch car /truck manufacturer was taken over in the 1970's by Volvo?
Volvo Cars and blocked it. A deal to merge with Renault was blocked in 1993, mainly opposed by a Swedish stockholders' association. A collection of Volvo's most important historical vehicles are now housed in the Volvo Museum, which opened in a permanent location in Arendal at Hisingen on 30 May 1995. For several years, the collection had been housed at the Blue Hangar, at the then closed Torslanda Airport. In the early 1970s, Volvo acquired the passenger car division of the Dutch company DAF, and marketed their small cars as Volvos before releasing the Dutch-built Volvo 340, which went on to be
Volvo Car Gent was formerly known as . In November 2016 the 6th million car was produced. NOTE: the plant's name is "Volvo Car Gent" and not "Volvo Cars Ghent". It is a proper name in which the city name is in its original Dutch format, not in English. Volvo Car Gent Volvo Car Gent (until 2007 known as Volvo Cars Europe Industry N.V.) is an automobile manufacturer located in the port district of Ghent in western Belgium. In recent years, the Ghent plant has become the largest Volvo plant in terms of the number of cars produced. The company is a wholly