Cyan Racing Volvo P1800 Is a Retrofuturistic Revelation
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This is the altogether beautiful and wonderful Cyan Racing Volvo P1800.
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It’s the prototype for a small series of exclusive high-performance coupes based on Volvo’s classic P1800 coupe.
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How exclusive? Try £700,000. Cyan Racing officials say they can build about one of these a month.
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£700,000 may seem like an absurd price, but the global market for these sorts of fully reimagined, thoughtfully modernized high-dollar icons is surprisingly robust.
Just ask Singer, Icon or Eagle, all of whom have long wait lists.
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Cyan is the Swedish motorsports outfit formerly known as Polestar. After working closely with Volvo on the automaker’s touring-car-series racers and a series of high-performance production Volvos, Cyan Racing sold its name to the automaker for its new electric car brand. The two still maintain friendly relations.
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At first glance, this looks like a standard 1964 Volvo P1800 body, but there are actually a ton of differences, from new bumpers to flared fenders that lend the whole design a cleaner appearance.
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Just look at this beautiful, driver-focused interior.
With the exception of the handbrake handle and the HVAC controls, it’s all new but looks timeless.
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This P1800 is powered by a breathed-on version of Cyan Racing’s 2.0-liter I4 turbo engine as used in its World Touring Car Championship-winning Volvo S60 TC1.
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It’s tuned to deliver 420 horsepower and 336 pound-feet of torque, with both peaks high in the rev range for proper old-school feel.
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It features a race-spec five-speed dogleg gearbox from Holinger as well as manual brakes.
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