Editing LDV Group (section)

===Maxus===
The last range of vans, the [[LDV Maxus|Maxus]], was introduced in the end of 2004. The Maxus was originally planned as a joint venture with [[Daewoo Motors]] of South Korea. Daewoo however, went into receivership in November 2000, before the project came to fruition.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/67218.stm LDV and Daewoo in £160m link-up] ''BBC News'' 19 March 1998</ref>

LDV subsequently acquired the exclusive rights to the van from [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]], who had taken over Daewoo, and purchased the existing tooling and shipped it all to the Washwood Heath factory in Birmingham from the [[FSC Lublin Automotive Factory|Daewoo Plant in Poland]] where the van was originally intended to be built.<ref>{{cite news|title=Van maker plans 1,000 new jobs|date=19 August 2003|publisher=BBC|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3165425.stm|access-date=7 September 2007}}</ref> The Maxus was fitted with direct injection, common rail, diesel engines supplied by [[VM Motori]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Current Vehicles|publisher=VM Motori|url=http://www.vmmotori.it/en/01/01/index.jsp|access-date=7 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218063345/http://www.vmmotori.it/en/01/01/index.jsp|archive-date=18 December 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>