S60

Polestar is to Volvo what AMG is to Mercedes or M to BMW. Polestar is a company with a racing pedigree and a perfect fit to develop some of the naughty production cars in the Volvo range. The latest examples are the S60 and V60 vehicles.StylingOn the outside the Polestar kit enhances the athleticism ...

Four. That's the number of pistons you'll find in all future Volvo engines, petrol and diesel. I don't blame you for the puzzled look on your face - I had the same one when we first got the news during the trip to Nice in the south of France to attend the launch of Volvo’s Drive-E powertrains. And ...

Volvo and its performance partner Polestar have decided that it’s about time the S60 be mentioned in the same breath as the likes of the BMW M3 and Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG. The result is the frankly bonkers S60 Polestar Performance concept; a 379 kW and 575 N.m two-fingered salute to the Germans.At ...

If the Australians get their way, they could soon be driving an officially tuned version of the Volvo S60.Called the S60 Performance Project, Volvo Car Australia took the S60 T6 R Design as the base model and got some help from two partners: Polestar and Heico.Polestar – best known for the tuning work ...

For Volvo, a motor company so closely associated with safety, the frenetic world of motor racing may not seem like an obvious playground... There is, however, something strangely appealing about seeing a mom’s school run car taking to the track.This was certainly the case in 1994, when a Tom Walkinshaw ...

THE compact executive segment in South Africa is a pretty tough playground in which to try and stake a claim – especially if you don’t speak German. And while Volvo has had a presence in this playgroup for some time it has, perhaps unfairly at times, been bullied out of the sandbox during the struggle ...

On my fridge I keep a test schedule. That is, a breakdown of the press vehicles I’m due to receive on test. Most cars are kept for a week and run consecutively. One goes back to whence it came and is promptly replaced by another.The list stretches about two, sometimes three, months ahead and contains ...