Start with what the Volvo 262C is: a 2-door coupé with 2664 , built from 1977 to 1981, as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Jan Wilsgaard.
The story
The Volvo 262C is a luxury coupé made by Volvo from 1977 (as a 1978 model) until 1981. Based on the 264 six-cylinder saloon, the 262C was designed in-house by Volvo's Jan Wilsgaard, and built by Bertone in Turin, Italy.
What is underneath
The engine is 2664 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1425 -. Drive goes through a 3-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / 4-speedManual transmission / manual. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 2640 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
In the Volvo line-up the Volvo 262C has a clear place: it handed the line to the Volvo 780; the factory was Turin (Gruppo Bertone), Italy. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the BMW 7 Series, the Ford Fiesta, the GM (General Motors) Saab 900. Nearby in the Volvo catalogue sit the Volvo 144 and the Volvo 264 TE.
Owning one today
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Volvo 262C has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.