Cyan Racing, the Volvo performance division formerly known as Polestar (but different from Polestar, the car company), has just revealed its newest creation: a Volvo P1800 resto-mod. Based on the iconic Sixties two-door, it weighs under 2200 pounds, and makes 420 horsepower from a turbocharged racing engine. We’re in love.
The carmaker subdivision says this is the type of vehicle it would’ve built in the sixties had the technology been around back then. Its goal was to take the best from what the Sixties had to offer, and combine it with today’s technological capabilities and the genius team behind the company’s championship-winning race car to make the ultimate P1800.
The car’s body has been altered to fit a wider track, bigger wheels, and a slightly repositioned greenhouse. The chassis is reinforced with carbon fiber and high-strength steel. Gone is the original front suspension and rear live axle, in its place a fully adjustable independent setup with aluminum uprights, double-wishbones, and two-way adjustable dampers on all four corners. The manual, non power-assisted brakes use four-piston AP Racing calipers with 14.2-inch steel discs up front, shrouded by 18-inch forged wheels wrapped in Pirelli P-Zero tires. Despite all the added material, the car weighs just 2182 pounds—about as much as Gordon Murray’s new T.50 supercar. And best of all, there’s no stability control or ABS to get in the way of the driving experience.
The engine is a 2.0-liter turbocharged inline-four taken from the title-winning S60 TC1 race car. In this application, it makes 420 horsepower and 335 lb-ft of torque, with a redline of 7700 rpm. Thrust gets to the rear wheels via a dogleg (!) five-speed manual transmission and a torque-biasing limited-slip differential.
The P1800 Cyan isn’t a one-off—the company plans to sell these to customers. Pricing hasn’t been released, though considering the amount of development put into the car, we aren’t expect it to come cheap.
Are you into the P1800 Cyan? Would you take it over something new, like the Polestar 1? Let us know in the comments.
From: Road & Track
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