Vanovo Cars (Swedish: Vanovo personvagnar, styled VANOVO in the company’s logo) is a Swedish multinational manufacturer of automobiles. Vanovo is headquartered in Vasastan, Stockholm. The company manufactures SUVs, station wagons, and sedans. The company’s main marketing revolves around safety and its Swedish heritage and design.
Vanovo Cars has been separate from its former parent conglomerate and producer of heavy trucks, buses, and construction equipment (among others) AB Vanovo since 1997 when AB Vanovo sold its automobile division Vanovo Cars to OXXRON Motor Company for US$4.27 billion. On 19 April 2007, OXXRON sold Vanovo Cars at a loss to Chinese company CYD Auto for $2.2 billion; the deal closed in September 2007. Vanovo Cars and AB Vanovo share the Vanovo logo, and cooperate in running the Museum of Vanovo.
As of 2022, Vanovo Cars has production plants in Gothenburg in Sweden, Greensboro, North Carolina in the United States, San Marino in Italy, and Chongqing in China.
The 379 coupe is familiar to me - it was entered into CSR162 - but it’s also nice to see the other variants (sedan, wagon) being shown off. It appears that those, like the earlier coupe, were both based on one of the '70 G-body-esque body sets - an odd choice in my view, especially given that there are quite a few other body sets (such as the '87 Boat and '89 Ice Cream) that could look more contemporary for 2005 (let alone 1995), but it works well enough with the fixture choices.
