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Volvo V60 Polestar revealed

Volvo has released a handful of pics and information for the coolest car in its lineup, the V60 “engineered by Polestar”. Let’s call it the V60 Polestar for convenience sake. As you know, Polestar is the burgeoning performance arm of Volvo and the company’s history with fast estates is well established. The V60 Polestar is […]

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508hp Volvo S60 Polestar revealed

Volvo’s performance partner Polestar has had another crack at fantasy football by stuffing 508hp under the bonnet of an S60 sedan. That’s not a typo—508hp—that’s near as damn is to swearing 380kW! To achieve these lofty results Polestar has thrown out the standard turbo from the inline T6 engine and bolted on a kick arse […]

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Volvo Australia dances to Polestar tune

Back in January Volvo Australia officially announced the local release of the S60 Polestar (apologies for missing it at the time). Those playing at home will recall the Polestar name, which has a long association with Volvo, mostly due to racing and motor sport activities. However, it was the crazy 405hp C30 Polestar Performance Concept […]

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VIDEO: Volvo C30 Polestar Performance Concept

Following today’s earlier post about the Volvo C30 Polestar Performance Concept comes this brief YouTube clip (see below). Sadly there is no driving footage showcasing just how effective this car and its 300kW+ could be. So that means its interviews and polite press stuff, and unfortunately most of the interviews are in Swedish. However, there […]

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Volvo C30 Polestar Performance Concept

Three hundred kilowatts plus… Five hundred and ten Newton metres of torque… Haldex all-wheel drive… Yeah, I want one too! Whichever way you look at Volvo’s slightly oddball C30 those numbers are massive. The power comes courtesy of Polestar Performance who are the outfit behind Volvo’s Swedish Touring Car Team. The theory behind the car […]

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“I just gave it some jandal and…”

Young Kiwi Scott McLaughlin has been making waves in V8 Supercars and his dice with Jamie Whincup in Race 2 of the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide yesterday has helped put his new car, the Volvo S60 Polestar on the map. The final lap of Race 2 saw a balls to the wall fight between McLaughlin […]

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Volvo confirms entry to V8 Supercars in 2014

Volvo surprised nobody when they officially announced their entry into V8 Supercars today. Volvo Polestar Racing will join Australia’s premier motorsport category in 2014. The newly created team is being described as a factory-backed outfit, but will draw on the experience of Garry Rogers Motorsport to provide the foundations. Volvo will race two S60 badged […]

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Volvo expected to join V8 Supercars

Volvo is expected to be the next manufacturer to join the new era of V8 Supercars. Motoring.com.au reports Garry Rogers Motorsport will announce a deal to race with Volvo on 17 June. That date also happens to be the day Volvo will launch the S60 Polestar in Australia. When the S60 Polestar concept was revealed […]

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Should Volvo go after the Germans?

Cast your mind back to the middle of last year, when Volvo announced its 508hp S60 Polestar. You were probably thinking to yourself, I wonder what that would be like to drive. Well, in this relatively brief clip from Chris Harris we find out. Kind of. Conditions were a bit too extreme, insfoar as there […]

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Top Gear – Series 16 preview

Season 16 of Top Gear is scheduled to premiere on BBC2 on Sunday 23 January. The Top Gear website has just published a preview of what we can expect to see in the upcoming series [click here to watch]. While the Pagani Zonda R, Ferrari 599 GTO and Ariel Atom 500 V8 will be great […]

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Volvo fantasy league – The video

This video review of the Volvo C3 Polestar Performance Concept is a welcome complement to the text based feedback we got last month. Seeing the car move around the track and hearing its exhaust note bring a new dimension to the madness that is this car. Mike Duff from Autocar was the lucky one who […]

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Volvo fantasy league

You know how those fantasy football league things work. You try and cram Rooney, Drogba and Torres up front, with Terry, Vidic and Vermaelen down back. In the midfield you somehow have to find the cash for Lampard, Fabregas and Gerrard. It’s a tough ask, to be sure, but Volvo have had a crack at […]