The Volvo Dealer Team was an Australian motor racing team that competed in Australian touring car racing in 1986 winning the Australian Touring Car Championship...
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Volvo Dealer Racing, known originally as the Volvo Dealer Team and occasionally as Volvo 850 Racing, Volvo S40 Racing and Volvo Racing was an Australian...
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help of Bob Atkins, head of The Australian Volvo Dealer Council, formed the AVDT, Australian Volvo Dealer Team who purchased Petch's car and spares immediately...
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MPV Volvo EM90 (2024) Luxury EV MPV Volvo V60 Volvo V90 Volvo S60 Volvo S90 Volvo XC40 Volvo XC60 Volvo XC90 Volvo C40 Volvo EX30 Volvo EX90 Volvo EM90...
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JPS Team BMW 635CSi in 1985 and a Tony Longhurst Racing Ford Sierra RS500 in 1989, Crichton competed at the Bathurst 1000 in 1986 for the Volvo Dealer Team...
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the sale of the team by Mark Petch Motorsport to Volvo Australia to form the Volvo Dealer Team. The Volvo was overtaken in speed by the Nissan turbo's and...
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Francevic driving a Volvo 240. The championship was won by Auckland (New Zealand) resident Robbie Francevic driving a Volvo Dealer Team Volvo 240T, the first...
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factory-supported Volvo Dealer Team replaced the Mark Petch Motorsport outfit and expanded to a second car and Bowe joined Francevic in the team full-time at...
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He moved to the Volvo Dealer Team in 1986 and later in the same year to Perkins Engineering. In 1990 he joined Gibson Motorsport as team manager before...
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List of Australian Touring Car and V8 Supercar champions (section List of V8 Supercar Teams' Championship winners)
car category. A driver's title has been awarded since 1960 and titles for teams and manufacturers are also currently awarded. Australia's most famous motor...
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another new team, the John Sheppard run Volvo Dealer Team, a factory supported team which succeeded the Mark Petch Motorsport Volvo team of 1985. The...
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Volvo Trucks (Swedish: Volvo Lastvagnar) is a truck manufacturing division of Volvo based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Trucks was a separate company within...
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built Holden VK Commodore SS Group A to victory over the similar Holden Dealer Team Commodore John Harvey and Neal Lowe. Third was the factory backed Nissan...
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comments that the Volvo 240T he was to drive wouldn't be competitive as the Volvo Dealer Team had not been able to practice due to the team still building...
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The Holden Dealer Team (HDT) was Holden's semi-official racing team from 1969 until 1986, primarily contesting Australian Touring Car events but also rallying...
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was drafted into the Volvo Dealer Team in 1986 for the Castrol 500 at Sandown and the James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst. Driving a Volvo 240T, he failed to...
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52min 39sec 3 3 Holden Dealer Team Shekhar Mehta Rauno Aaltonen Barry Lake Holden Commodore VB 4hr 53min 39sec 4 7 Volvo Dealer Team-Queensland Ross Dunkerton...
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in 1994 when he raced a Volvo 850 in the one-off Eastern Creek 12-Hour. He also competed for the same Volvo Dealer Racing team in the Australian Super...
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has been used as a test track for various race teams including the Melbourne-based Holden Dealer Team, as well as Adelaide based manufacturer Holden....
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Tom Walkinshaw Racing (redirect from Volvo S40 Racing)
Championship, including spells as factory-back teams under the names Holden Racing Team and HSV Dealer Team. TWR modified its XJR-14 design (which had also...
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Wheeler Dealers is a British TV series originally produced by Attaboy TV for the Discovery Channel in the United Kingdom and for Motor Trend in the United...
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Mike Brewer (section Wheeler Dealers)
On 25 October 2000, Brewer was in a team that set a new British 24-hour Endurance Land Speed Record in a Volvo S60 T5. In 2004, Brewer won the Royal...
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Tasmania SuperSprint (section By team)
event, winning in 1976 and 1979. In 1985, Robbie Francevic won his and Volvo's first round victory, winning again in 1986. Between 1988 and 1990, Dick...
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Championship in the Volvo Dealer Teams Volvo 240T. Bowe started the race in the Nissan and later joined the Channel 7 commentary team for the concluding...
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Premier Automotive Group (section Volvo Cars)
Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo, were essentially completely different car companies with their own unique markets and dealer networks, so there were few...
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DAF Trucks (category Volvo Group)
during the transition to Volvo ownership and was ultimately launched as the Volvo 300 series in 1976, firstly as the Volvo 343 three door hatchback with...
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Mark Petch Motorsport (category New Zealand auto racing teams)
Touring Car Championship, with the team's Australian assets then sold to the John Sheppard run Volvo Dealer Team. Mark Petch Motorsport then purchased...
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Australian Manufacturers' Championship was awarded to Nissan. Although Nissan team driver George Fury won 4 of the 6 rounds, missing the opening round at Amaroo...
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WestCoast Racing (category Swedish auto racing teams)
the "BMW Dealer Team". The team has mainly competed in the STCC, but also in the ETC Cup, FIA Sportscar Championship, Formula Ford and Volvo S60 Challenge...
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Amaroo Park Robbie Francevic Volvo Dealer Team Volvo 240T 2 9 March Symmons Plains Raceway Robbie Francevic Volvo Dealer Team Volvo 240T 3 13 April Sandown...
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