The item was one of the final cars produced of its model (only 6,620 were ever made) and was delivered to the musician’s Swiss home in 1981. Ownership was later transferred to Bowie’s Belway Bros record label.
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David Bowie's Volvo 262C Bertone Coupe makes £160,000 at auction https://t.co/ABdrMUtypy #RetroMR pic.twitter.com/N6eQG27JAA
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Despite its roots in the utilitarian 200-series model line, the 262C was one of the better personal luxury coupes of the day. With a cushier interior than its 200-series compatriots and a more stylish design thanks to Italian design house Bertone, the 262C was an odd footnote in the Swedish automaker’s long history. 
It might have shared a segment space with Lincoln and Cadillac, but it certainly didn’t share the same proclivity for effortless highway cruising as the Americans. Power comes from a 2.8-liter Peugeot-Renault-Volvo (PRV) V-6, pushing 155 hp to the rear wheels through either a four-speed manual transmission or a three-speed automatic. (automobilemag.com)
According to the listing, the car was ordered in 1981 and delivered to his residence in Switzerland where it was registered under his real name—David Robert Jones. It’s not clear when the Volvo left his possession, but it’s apparently lived a charmed life since, wearing just 33,000 miles on the odometer.
When the hammer fell in Switzerland 
Bowie’s ride sold for $216,000.
Recently David Bowie’s son Duncan Jones has launched an online book club dedicated to his late father’s favorite literary works.
“My dad was a beast of a reader… I’ve been feeling a building sense of duty to go on the same literary marathon in tribute to dad,” Duncan Jones writes.
The first book Jones has chosen is Hawksmoor, the award-winning 1985 novel by Peter Aykroyd. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, a 1980s detective who investigates murders committed in the same churches.
What David Bowie’s favourite books reveal about himHawksmoor appears in the list of David Bowie’s 100 favourite books which was released in 2013. Fans wishing to join the book club (and presumably discuss each book with Jones on Twitter) have until February 1 to complete Peter Aykroyd’s novel.
