One old friend helps us say goodbye to another.
The sudden death of Peter Horbury on a business trip to China last week came as a huge shock to all of us at PH. Rather than add to the growing pile of obituaries for one of the UK’s most successful car designers, we decided to celebrate his life with an example of what was probably his most famous model. Certainly the one that did most to transform the brand that built it: the ‘P2’ second-generation Volvo V70.
But it was at Volvo that he will be best remembered, after three separate stints at the company. The first was as a lowly contractor, joining in 1979 to be paid by the hour to work on interiors. At the time design had such a low priority the whole department was an offshoot of engineering, the tiny team of stylists working to - as Horbury remembered it - “make their ideas look a bit less ugly.”
Bringing us to this week’s Pill. With the pool of period-appropriate V70 Rs being limited in the classifieds, we’ve opted to increase the braveness by selecting a very smart-looking example freshly imported from Japan. It hasn’t been registered yet, or certainly hadn’t been when the pictures were taken, but the dealer in East Sussex selling it promises that it will come with both freshly applied numberplates and a shiny new MOT.
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