Elbo, formally the Hellenic Vehicle Industry S.A., was a Greek vehicle manufacturer based in Thessaloniki. It was founded in 1972 as Steyr Hellas S.A. under an agreement with Steyr-Daimler-Puch of Austria, and was renamed in 1987 after the transfer of Austrian shares to the Greek state. In 2000 the company was partly privatized when the Greek Mytilineos group acquired 43 percent of its shares and took over its management, with…