IPD
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Auto and E-commerce |
| Founded 📆 | 1963 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Portland, Oregon, USA |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
| Products 📟 | Genuine, OE, OEM, and IPD branded replacement parts for Volvo cars |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 20+ (2016) |
| 🌐 Website | https://www.ipdusa.com |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
IPD (International Product Development) or IPD USA, is an automotive aftermarket company that manufactures and sells Genuine, OE, OEM, and IPD branded high-performance upgrade components for Volvo brand automobiles.[1] The company is based in Portland, Oregon. IPD was started in 1963, by two friends, (Richard Gordon and Garry Small), who worked at an import car dealer. The business was originally called Import Parts and Service. Due to business issues around purchasing parts wholesale, the partners divided the business between service and parts. Garry Small lead the service portion under the name Import Service Center and Richard Gordon lead the parts area under Import Parts Distributing.[2][1]
The original makeup of the parts business was English Ford, Triumph, Volkswagen and Volvo. Due to the sponsorship of a Volvo race car and then competing personally in autocross and sports car racing, the need for high-performance parts became urgent.[3][4] A small collection of race-worthy components followed and Richard put together a catalog to capitalize on product uniqueness.[5]The first catalog was 10 pages long and assembled from typewritten pages, Polaroid pictures and some clip-art.[6]
The business was primarily locally focused until 1971 when Road & Track magazine did an article on performance products for imported cars. IPD was mentioned and national marketing began. Then in 1974 Road & Track in their June issue did a comparison test between the IPD project car and one from Volvo of America. Since that time IPD truly has been a national business. Continued growth lead to international business and in 1996 the dba of International Product Development was added.
In 2005, IPD opened a new division called WPD (Worldwide Parts Distribution) to focus on parts for other vehicles aside from Volvo such as Subaru, Saab, Volkswagen, Porche, BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Honda, Mazda and Nissan. [7]
2006 SEMA concepts (2006)[edit]
- The IPD C30 includes a supercharged 5-cylinder engine with belt-driven supercharger with 6 psi (0.4 bar) of boost, a nitrous tank, gull wing doors, and Alcantara seats, Alpine and Apple audio system.[8][4]
Previous Names and History[edit]
The IPD name has been defined as Import Parts Distributing CO or Import Parts Distribution or International Product Development. These variations all came down to one common usage of the IPD name now synonymous with Volvo parts and accessories.[9][10]
IPD offers Volvo OES, aftermarket brands and Genuine Volvo.
IPD is known for its anti-sway bar upgrades over the OEM version. Autocar gave IPD a "far superior" rating compared to the OEM version.[11]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Genuine, OE, OEM and Aftermarket Online Car Parts Catalog". Ipdusa.com.
- ↑ "IPD Acquisition Announcement". Ipdusa.com.
- ↑ "At $7,500, Could This Last-Year 1993 Volvo 245 Classic Make a Lasting Impression?". Jalopnik.com. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Volvo V40 Performance Concept Wagon Introduced". Media.volvocars.com.
- ↑ "QOTD: Best Unheralded Performance Car?". Thetruthaboutcars.com. 10 December 2018.
- ↑ 10th edition catalog
- ↑ https://www.ipdusa.com/blogs/376/ipd-opens-wpd-for-other-car-models
- ↑ "2007 Volvo C30 (created for Volvo Cars North America)". Ipdusa.com.
- ↑ https://www.manta.com/c/mmcs7qg/ipd-co
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/0398027D:US-import-parts-distributing-co
- ↑ https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/used-car-buying-guides/volvo-s60-r
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- ↑ "IPD Volvo S40 T5". Road & Track. 1 June 2007.
