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Volvo 262C Bertone car design review: Sweden's Land Yacht luxury coupe! | Niels van Roij Design

#DesignReview #Volvo #262C The Volvo 200 series, designed by Jan Wilsgaard, was produced by Volvo from 1974 to 1993. With over 2.8 million cars sold worldwide it was a massive success and its boxy, confident shape and strong shoulders make the 200 series one of the most iconic Volvo’s ever produced. The 200 bared much resemblance to the earlier 140 Series. The cars shared the same body shell, however the 200 incorporated features and design elements from the 1972 Volvo VESC (Volvo Experimental Safety Car) and with its crumple zones the 200 was a lot safer. After a team of American executives and engineers had visited a Volvo factory in the mid-1970s, bringing Lincoln Continental Mark IVs, Volvo staff got interested in the vehicle typology. The then brand new Volvo CEO and chairman of Pehr Gyllenhammar asked Jan Wilsgaard to look at the possibilities of designing a similar vehicle for Volvo. The project stayed between the two men. Wilsgaard convinced Gyllenhammar the only realistic possibility for Volvo, a small independent manufacturer at the time, to be present in the States with an exclusive coupe model to compete against the Cadillac Eldorado and the Mercedes-Benz 280CE was to build the car on an existing platform. Without having facilities nor funding to spare on a low volume vehicle only realistic option was using the 200 floorplan. Wilsgaard asked the Italian Coggiola to help in producing design proposals as within Volvo’s own design department no budget was present to develop the car any further. Wilsgaard and Coggiola worked together on a full scale model of plaster and steel, based on an American spec two door Volvo 260. Initially Coggiola lowered the roof of the base car very radically. This was reversed on Wilsgaard’s request and shortly after the green light for production was given by Gyllenhammar. Volvo’s low volume producer Bertone was asked to build the radical new coupe. The Bertone Volvo collaboration started in 1975 with the 264TE limousines, of which only 335 were built. About 125 of the limousines went to Erich Honecker - the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in Germany’s Democratic Republic. Bertone made the roof pillars, roof pan, windshield surround, cowl, and the upper parts of the doors to fit the greatly lowered roof – despite being less extreme than the Coggiola proposal, it was still 10 cm lower compared to the regular 260! Drivetrain, suspension, floor pan, and many of the body panels of the 262C were taken directly from the 260 sedan. Pictured in this Homage Sketch is the 1979 262C in USA spec. The car is featuring the arguably more impressive front, boasting double square headlights and lower chin spoiler. The 262C is a provocative design, with its confident stance, especially sitting on the pictured larger multi-spoke alloy wheels. Its simple, but confident and consistent surfacing throughout and an impressive down the road graphic, not in the least because of the large amount of chrome used, makes that the 262C leaves a lasting impression, despite the fact it was not sold in significant numbers. Discover Niels van Roij Design: Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/NielsvanRoi...| Website: https://nielsvanroij.com/ Instagram:   / nielsvanroijdesign   Facebook:   / nielsvanroijdesign   Twitter:   / nielsvanroij   LinkedIn:   / 873914