BusinessWeek, May 28, 2018 (III)

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(4) Bryan Gruley and Jamie Butters, So Happy Together. (one of the three feature stories)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/f ... chinese-billionaire

Note:
(a)
(i) summary underneath the title in print: Marriages in the auto business are typically disastrous. But Sweden's Volvo and China's Geely are making it work
(ii) Print and the online version are identical.

(b) "Hakan Samuelsson, the chief executive officer of Volvo Car Group, is sitting in the master bedroom in the home of a suburban Stockholm * * * His company has rented the [home] * * * for the media introduction of Volvo's new station wagon, the V60. * * * Outside, light February snow flutters past willows and pines onto a silver V60 bathed in camera lights in the driveway. It was designed, like so many Volvos, for suburban families"
(i) Håkan Samuelsson was born in 1951 in Sweden.
(ii) Volvo V60
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_V60
(based on the S60 [where S stands for sedan]; table: Production  2010–present)
(iii) Annually new version is trotted out. Though the quotation does not have year, the event was Feb 21, 2018 (US time) or Feb 22, 2018 at Stockholm. See
AoiroStudio (writer's screen name), The new Volvo V60: the Unveiling Experience purely in Swedish Family Lifestyle. Cloverdesain.com. Feb 22, 2018 (photo of a wagon outdoors)
http://www.cloverdesain.com/art- ... h-family-lifestyle/

(c) "The car wouldn't exist, and Samuelsson wouldn't be jawing with journalists in a stranger's house, if it weren't for a formerly obscure Chinese billionaire named Li Shufu."

Jaw (vi; First Know Use 1748 in the meaning defined at intransitive sense): "to talk especially abusively, indignantly, or long-windedly"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jaw
(d) "From the founding in Gothenburg in 1927, Volvo has been respected as an innovator"

Gothenburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothenburg
(It is the second-largest city in Sweden after capital Stockholm [two two cities lie in the different sides of the country])
(e) "Ford paid %6.5 billion for Volvo in 1999 [from Volvo Group, which kept production of trucks, buses and defense] * * * [Then 2008 Great Recession struck. To survive, Ford sold many assets, including Volvo. Looking for a buyer,] Ford wasn't interested in supplying whomever bought Volvo with power trains forever."

Not "whomever."  As the subject of the clause, it should be "whoever."