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The DAF company was founded in 1932, when a machine construction company led by Hub and Wim van Doorne , changed name to Van Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek (Van Doorne's Trailer Factory), abbreviated DAF.
In 1949, the company started producing trucks, changing its name to Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek (Van Doorne's Automobile Factory). In 1958, DAF produced its first passenger car with a continuously variable automatic transmission, the Variomatic.
The division of DAF producing passenger cars was sold to the Swedish company Volvo Cars in 1975, leaving DAF to concentrate on its successful line of trucks.
All of DAF's early cars were fitted with the company's Variomatic transmission. The first passenger car, assigned the model number 600 , created a sensation when a prototype was presented in 1958. The first 600s rolled off the production line in the following year. The next model was the 750 , featuring a larger engine.
Subsequently, DAF produced a type called the Daffodil, divided into three models assigned the numbers 30 , 31 and 32 . The latter designation was changed to 33 upon the release of the 44 , a middle-class vehicle. Model 55 carried a bigger 1100 cc engine made by Renault. The last two passenger cars released by DAF before the division's sale to Volvo were the 46 and 66 (although these continued being sold as Volvo 66). The Volvo 300-series , introduced in 1976 was in fact DAF-based and used the Variomatic transmission.
For a small company, DAF made a huge amount of protypes. Also, famous coach builders like Michelotti and OSIOSI is an abbreviation for a number of terms: # The Office of Strategic Influence was an United States government agency in the early 2000s. OSI is a progressive rock band formed by members of Dream Theater and Fates Warning. Office of Strategic Influence made cars based on the DAF technique. DAF's last prototype became the Volvo 343 , which sold about 1.4 million.
DAF produced their first truckFor further uses of the word truck see Truck (disambiguation). A truck is a motor vehicle for transporting goods. Unlike automobiles, which usually have a unibody construction, most trucks (with the exception of the car-like minivan) are built around a st in 1949, the A30 . This truck was upgraded in the following years. Their first attempt into the international market was a failure, the 2000DO . Their next truck was the 2600 , which became a big seller. They also produced a so-called torpedo-front tractor. In the 1970s a new body style was introduced, which was upgraded into the late 1980s. DAF was one of the first to introduce a TurboIn its original sense, turbo is a prefix denoting a machine that is turbine related. Most people use it to refer to the turbocharger in cars. Another typical use of the word is turbopump. In machinery, at least two other combinations exist: Turbodrill Tur into their trucks, which in these years became very evident with their 3600 . In the 1980s, DAF competed in the Paris-Dakar rally, winning with Jan de Rooy in 1982Events January January 6 William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du, 1985 and 1987. In 1988, Jan de Rooy crashed in a horrific crash, killing the driver. DAF withdrew. Also in 1988, their successful 95 series was introduced, bringing DAF their first "truck of the year" title. This series of trucks was expanded, with the 85, 75, 65, 45 and later the 55. In 1993 DAF went bankrupt, but could restart and was taken over by PACCAR in 1997. By then they introduced the succeeder to the 95, the 95XF, which became truck of the year. This series was expanded. In 2002 their entire range was renewed, with the LF, CF and XF range. The LF was the truck of the year 2002.
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