And the Volvo is doing quite fine.

That's the part where I sold the Volvo and bought the Toyota.

So we want to make it very much like a white Volvo.

And in 1960, all Swedes were saving to try to buy a Volvo like this.

Well it would lead you to put in Porsche brakes, a Ferrari engine, a Volvo body, a BMW chassis.

Choir When you hold me in your arms DD This is all computer controlled in an old Volvo.

After the transaction is completed, Geely Holding will own 8.2 of the Volvo Group, becoming its largest shareholder and holding 15.6 of the voting rights.

And I'm going to stage a race here between this sort of yellowish Ford here and the red Toyota down there, and the brownish Volvo.

But the truth of the matter is, you look at that car, it doesn't look like a Volvo, and it doesn't look like a Hummer.

And what happened a month ago was that the Chinese company, Geely, they acquired the Volvo company, and then finally the Swedes understood that something big had happened in the world.

It was learned that the Extreme Sailing Series started from 2007, and it was an ISAF game equivalent to the Volvo Ocean Race, the America's Cup and the World Match Racing Tour.

On the 27th, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group announced that it has reached an agreement with European fund company Cevian Capital to acquire 82.47 million A shares and 78.77 million B shares of AB Volvo from Cevian Capital.

China follows the power game within the EU through its French friends, and therefore knows which governments need to be whipped into line. In Sweden, it has probably been enough to whisper Ericsson and Volvo to make Primer Minister Göran Persson understand what is at stake for his country commercially.

The same impulse appears to be at work behind Italy s policy on Autostrade, Spain s on Endesa, Poland s on its banking sector, the former Swedish Prime Minister s on Volvo, German unease about locust like funds on Deutsche Börse, or the United Kingdom s ever louder defense of the London Stock Exchange s independence from the United States.