LDV Group

This article is about the company that manufactured LDV vans from 1993 until 2009. For the company that has manufactured LDV vans since 2010, see Maxus.

LDV Group
IndustryAutomotive
PredecessorLeyland DAF
FoundedApril 1993; 31 years ago (April 1993)
DefunctOctober 2009; 14 years ago (October 2009)
SuccessorMaxus
Headquarters
Washwood Heath, Birmingham, UK
ProductsVans
Number of employees
850 (2009)
Websitewww.ldv.com

LDV Group Limited, formerly Leyland DAF Vans, was a British van manufacturer based in Washwood Heath, Birmingham. Historically part of Rover Group and Leyland DAF, it was later a wholly owned subsidiary of the Russian GAZ Group. Owing to the global recession and a lack of long-term investment, production was suspended at the LDV factory in December 2008.

After a series of failed rescue attempts, the intellectual property rights were sold by administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers to Eco Concept in 2009, who sold them to SAIC Motor in 2010, with its Maxus subsidiary commencing production in China in March 2011.