A pioneering Volvo 240 Turbo Cup leads a trio of Volvo competition cars set to be offered by Swedish car auction platform Bilweb on 11 September 2025. Built in 1982, the 240 Turbo offered here is believed to be the very first example prepared for international Group A European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) racing.
The car has remained with its first and only owner, Swedish racing driver and motorsport figure Greger Petterson. Its competition career began in the one-make Volvo Turbo Cup series, launched to promote the 240 model in 1982.
After completing one season in the Volvo Turbo Cup, Petterson believed the 240 could prove competitive in Group A and commissioned Magnum Racing to build and install an engine for the series.
With the engine work complete, Petterson entered the final round of the 1982 ETCC season – the Silverstone Tourist Trophy 500 – alongside co-drivers Anders Olofsson and Peggen Andersson.
ETCC Organisers were so amused by the prospect of a boxy 240 on the grid that they waived the entry fee, while Avon Tyres stepped in to supply the team with rubber. Engine troubles prevented the 240 from reaching the finish, but the effort paved the way for a handful of privately entered Group A 240s in the following ETCC season.
The pioneering Swedish machine is being offered for sale without its Group A or Turbo Cup engines. Instead, it’s currently powered by a Köhler Racing-tuned B23 Redblock four-cylinder engine developing around 250bhp. Köhler Racing says building a Turbo Cup-spec engine and restoring the car to period specification would be “relatively straightforward”.
At the time of writing, the 240 Turbo Cup has a top bid of 97,000SEK (£7180) and is estimated to fetch between 200,000–250,000SEK (£14,800–£18,500) when the hammer falls on 11 September.
The second race car up for grabs is another Touring Car pioneer – this time from the Super2000 era of the 2000s. While the 240 Turbo had broken new ground for Volvo in Group A two decades earlier, the S60 Super2000 car offered here sought to do the same under a fresh set of regulations.
Privately developed in 2002, the S60 was conceived to run under the STCC’s Super2000 regulations, which were introduced in 2003 to replace the outgoing Super Touring formula.
Super2000 rules prioritised accessibility and aimed to create an even playing field between privateers and manufacturer-backed teams. Under the previous ruleset the STCC had effectively become a series for bespoke and hugely expensive silhouette racers.
The new Super2000 regulations required cars to use production-based 2.0-litre four-cylinder engines producing around 260bhp. Suspension geometry had to remain true to the original pick-up points, while aerodynamics were heavily restricted and minimum weights increased to 1140kg for front-wheel-drive cars and 1170kg for rear-wheel-drive.
The S60 offered by Bilweb raced for one STCC season and is said to have seen little use since. Its 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine sparked controversy at the time, with rivals claiming it delivered a straight-line advantage over the naturally aspirated cars in the field.
Complementing the turbocharged powertrain are Öhlins dampers, race-spec brakes and a fully stripped interior complete with a roll cage and a repositioned driver’s seat. A passenger bucket seat is also fitted, although it is currently unusable due to the absence of a cross brace for the seat belt.
Sporting a matte black livery with ‘Prototype’ decals, the S60 is being offered without reserve and is expected to fetch between 350,000-450,000SEK (£25,900–£33,300). Bidding currently stands at 46,000SEK (£3400).
The oldest and most affordable of the trio is a 1965 Volvo PV544 F Sport, prepared for Pre-1965 historic racing.
A late ‘Sport’ model, this example is said to be matching-numbers and rust-free. It was originally delivered to its first owner in April 1965, who later rebuilt it for historic racing before selling it on in 2004. At that point, the current consignor acquired the car directly from him, reportedly buying it straight off a trailer after a race without even taking a test drive.
Retained in the consignor’s personal collection, it has only seen very light use over the past couple of decades. It is offered without reserve with a pre-sale estimate of 170,000–190,000SEK (£12,600–£14,100).
