Top Gear | Old Volvos: Cool or Nah

Japan’s car culture is eclectic – but no one expected this! A new niche is emerging… and it involves old Volvo barges. Specifically, Volvo 200 Series ’bricks’, the matronly saloons and estates that peppered European middle-class driveways from 1974 to the early ’90s. That’s right, the chunky cardigans of the car world have a fan club. And we’re talking stock items here too, none of that modified malarky. Yet it’s that utter ordinariness that makes these Volvoisti smile. They love these cars, and don’t care what anyone else thinks.