1979 Volvo 262 BERTONE COUPE AUTOMATIC.

1979 Volvo 262 BERTONE COUPE AUTOMATIC.

£18,000.00

MakeVolvoModel262Year1979TransmissionAutomatic

FuelPetrolEngine Size2,664 ccmMileage89,000 MilesEmission class--

1979 Volvo 262 Bertone Coupe Automatic.

Registration number: CMM262V

A very rare car of which some 6000 examples were made with most being experted to the USA. This example was UK supplied & is finished in immacualte silver metallic paintwork, the only colour available at first although Gold became an option later. This example is in superb order thoughout having covered 89000 miles from new & resided in a small private collection of unusual cars.

This car drives beautifully & has a solid feeling typical of the Volvo Brand. The interior is swathed in Black leather & burr walnut. Carpets that one might more usually find under foot are also used to cover the ceiing as a roof lining. The lusty V6 engine starts readily & provides plenty of go augmented by the three speed with overdrive automatic gear box.

Presented in very fine overall condition, this rare & collectable Volvo Coupe is ready for immediate use.

Volvo's Heritage side tells us the following:

Launched at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1977, perhaps the most unexpected Volovo model version saw the light of day: a two-door coupé with heavily slanting windscreen pillars and the roof lowered by 60 mm. To get the car to be perceived as sleeker, the rear spare wheel pods had been removed - the remainder of the body was identical.


What really made the 262C into what it was could be found in the passenger compartment. This offered an extravagance of leather and hardwood. The seats, headrests, door sides - even the curve handles had been upholstered in leather.

When the Volvo 1800ES was discontinued in 1973, there was no natural successor to the role of top range sports model. Volvo's CEO Pehr G Gyllenhammar saw this as a problem. It was especially important that there was a model of this kind in Volvo's biggest export market in the USA and a luxury coupé seemed more right at the time than another sports car.

Volvo's chief designer Jan Wilsgaard did sketches for the shapes of the prestige car, but no clay model was ever built. Instead, he used a Volvo 164 that had been used to test new interiors. It was taken to the Italian designer Sergio Coggiola's company in the Italian city of Turin, where the four-door body was rebuilt into a two-door body with a lower roof. The roof was clad with vinyl and the wide C-pillar adorned with three crowns - Sweden's heraldic national symbol. The three crowns were replaced with one larger one on the production car, which is one of the very few differences between it and the prototype - except the obvious one that it was based on a 164.

The engine in the 262C was initially a 2.7 litre, 140 hp V6. It was shared with all the other body versions in the 260 series and had been developed together with Peugeot and Renault. Manufacturing took place in Douvrin in France under the auspices of the Société Franco-Suédoise de Moteurs-PRV company. Volvo's engine designation was B27E and thanks to engine blocks and cylinder heads made from aluminium, it weighed less than 150 kg.

Such a niche product, built in small numbers, didn't fit into the Volvo plant in Gothenburg. Instead, final assembly took place at the Italian Carozzeria Bertone, who also built the 264TE limo. Kits were sent to Turin where the bodies were modified, painted and assembled into finished cars. A small badge on the lower part of the front fenders showed that Bertone had built the car.

For the first few years, the 262 was only available in silver metallic with a black vinyl roof. From 1979, it was also available in gold metallic without a vinyl roof. That year, all saloon models in the 200 series also received a new rear with a boot that went down at the rear edge. The tail lights were also new and went around the body corners. In 1980, black and light blue metallic and silver metallic with vinyl roof was phased out. In the USA, the model was sold under the name of the Volvo Coupé from 1980.

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1979 Volvo 262 Bertone Coupe Automatic. Registration number: CMM262V A very rare car of which some 6000 examples were made with most being experted to the USA. This example was UK supplied & is finished in immacualte silver metallic paintwork, the only colour available at first although Gold became an option later. This example is in superb order thoughout having covered 89000 miles from new & resided in a small private collection of unusual cars.

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