A 2008 Volvo C30, the model Volvo says Edward Cullen drove in the first Twilight film. Representative image, not a film car. Photo: Ljmdbw / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Volvo’s UK press office says the Twilight films never put Edward Cullen in the car Stephenie Meyer wrote for him, a Volvo S60 R, because the model was no longer in production.
The statement is in Volvo’s release for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which carries no publication date. It says the novels give Edward an S60 R and lists what the studio used instead. Volvo’s release for Breaking Dawn – Part 1 covers the fourth film.
- Twilight (Nov. 21, 2008): Volvo C30
- New Moon (Nov. 20, 2009): Volvo XC60
- Eclipse: Volvo XC60 again
- Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (Nov. 16, 2011): S60 T6 R-Design in Saville Grey, which Volvo counts as the third different Volvo in the series
Meyer’s own page, “The Cullen Cars”, lists the book garage: a silver Volvo S60R and an Aston Martin V12 Vanquish for Edward, a Porsche 911 Turbo for Alice, a BMW M3 convertible for Rosalie, a Jeep Wrangler for Emmett, a Mercedes S55 AMG for Carlisle and a 1953 Chevrolet pickup for Bella. The page says the movie cars may differ and gives no model years for the Volvo. We priced the two Edward cars.
The S60 R
Volvo’s 2005 U.S. pricing release, dated Aug. 4, 2004, lists the S60 R at $37,250 before a $685 destination charge. A 2004 six-speed S60 R with about 92,000 miles, per the seller, sold on PCarMarket on March 28, 2022 for $16,500 after 29 bids. That is 44% of the 2005 sticker, though the car is a model year older.
A 36,000-mile 2005 six-speed also sold on Bring a Trailer on April 28, 2026. The only record we could open, a third-party tracker, shows £18,975 and no dollar figure, and we could not load the Bring a Trailer page to check it.
The Vanquish
Hagerty Marketplace sold a 29,400-mile 2002 V12 Vanquish on Jan. 21, 2026 for $55,105 after 44 bids, with Broad Arrow Auctions, a Hagerty subsidiary, acting as the seller’s agent. The highest bid visible on the page is $51,500. The $3,605 difference is 7% of that bid, a fee the page does not label.
The car is dark blue over cream leather, has the electro-hydraulic six-speed automated manual, was registered in California from new until 2014 and then in Mississippi, and is described by the seller as unmodified. Hagerty’s valuation page gives the original price as $228,000 without naming a year or market. Against that figure, the sale is 24%.
What is missing
We found no 2008-to-2011 resale record from a primary source for either car, so none of this shows what they were worth when the films were shot. The comparison is launch price against recent results. For the Chevrolet, 911 Turbo, M3 convertible, Wrangler and S55 AMG we did not find a launch price and a matching recent sale for the same car, and Meyer’s page calls her Jeep an approximation.
Paperwork on screen cars often disagrees with itself here too. We have covered the Flying Anglia that is either a 1962 or a 1966 and the Stranger Things Blazer Revell sells as a 1985 while its own blog says 1980. Robert Pattinson, who played Edward, bought a Shelby Mustang and can’t remember which one.
Would you rather park the 2002 Vanquish that sold at $55,105, or buy an S60 R like the $16,500 car and keep about $38,600?
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