{"id":14636,"date":"2010-05-12T16:34:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T15:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14636"},"modified":"2024-04-11T08:36:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T07:36:49","slug":"p1800es-our-coolest-scandinavian-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/p1800es-our-coolest-scandinavian-car\/","title":{"rendered":"P1800ES: Our Coolest Scandinavian Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, so Volvo\u2019s P1800 was a cool car. But, by the end of the decade that gave it birth, it\u2019s was looking outdated. It was cramped, a little slow, and couldn\u2019t keep pace with its rivals in either styling or performance.<\/p>\n

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So, toward the end of the sixties, someone at the heart of the Volvo establishment came up with a wheeze: restyle the roof and create a sporty estate. There had been precedents, of course. The \u2018shooting brake\u2019 format, in which a sports car was extended to the rear in order for the landed gentry to be able to store the Purdeys and the downed pheasant yet retain a modicum of raffish style, had been seen on the odd Aston. Ferrari\u2019s 250 \u2018breadvan\u2019<\/a> was an extreme version of the idea that style didn\u2019t necessarily have to compromise utility. The Reliant Scimitar GTE,<\/a> though, had broken ground in that particular area in Europe to a broader audience, whilst Chevrolet\u2019s burly Nomad wagon had been created out of the Tri Chevy saloons of the mid fifties.<\/p>\n

But wherever they got the idea, in 1971 Volvo introduced the p1800ES. Lopping the roof off and extending it with elongated side windows and a sexily raked C-pillar as well as a frameless glass hatch (that was resurrected by the cute and stylish c30 in 2006), pretty soon the wagon version of the existing classic had achieved a wealth of new admirers.<\/p>\n

The ES gained a couple of hundred pounds in weight and so was a little slower on pullaway than the Coup\u00e9, but a young rakish family cold retain its stylish integrity of a weekend: an idea that has echoed down the automotive decades. This is why the 1800 ES remains for us the coolest Scandinavian car ever produced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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