Volvo Shows 5.0-liter V8 Engine for Australian V8 Supercar Championship
6 Dec 2013, 17:13 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Back in April, Volvo revealed plans to develop new four-cylinder engines that “will turn V8 powerplants into dinosaurs”. They did come with a new four-potter for the XC60, S60 and V60 ea...
Volvo Reveals Production V60 and S60 Polestar
26 Nov 2013, 13:46 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo might offer a new 2-liter T6 engine, but as of today, we can be sure the six-cylinder will live on. Why today? Because the Swedish automaker teamed up with tuner and race car maker Polestar to...
Volvo V60 Polestar Flying at the Nurburgring
16 Oct 2013, 12:38 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / There are two sides to Swedish carmaker Volvo. There's the side that says it only wants to make hybrids and four-cylinder turbo engines, fitting them with more safety devices than the White Hou...
Spyshots: Volvo V60 Polestar Being Tested on Nurburgring
14 Oct 2013, 17:57 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / When it was unveiled back in 2012, the Volvo S60 Polestar Concept pretty much dropped everyone's jaws. A Volvo with 508 hp and 575 Nm (424 lb ft) of torque, all-wheel drive and just 3.9 seco...
Volvo C30 Polestar Takes On the Nurburgring
29 Jul 2013, 17:30 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Probably in an effort to make sure we don’t forget about their insane Volvo C30 Performance Concept, the team over at Polestar has just released a video that shows the extreme hatch tacking th...
Volvo Pondering More High-Performance Polestar Models
25 Jun 2013, 12:02 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / While launching the S60 Polestar high-performance sedan in Australia, Swedish automaker Volvo hinted at future beefed-up models that could rival similar vehicle wearing AMG (Mercedes-Benz), M (BMW) ...
Volvo Says Goodbye to C30
3 Jun 2013, 12:51 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Targeting a winder audience, Volvo launched the C30 three-door hatch back in 2006. Seven years on, the Swedish carmaker is phasing the Ghent-built model out, but not before taking one last look at w...
Jay Leno Drives the Volvo Polestar S60 Concept
21 Jan 2013, 12:32 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Last year, the Polestar division became a sort of in-house tuner for Volvo. They two companies have collaborated in the past on a number of project, and Polestar even runs a racing team using Volvo ...
Volvo S60 Polestar to Be Shown at Los Angeles Auto Show
21 Nov 2012, 09:59 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo today announced that the 508 horsepower S60 built by Polestar will be making an appearance at the upcoming Los Angeles Auto Show. Since the concept/one-off has already been sold for $300,000, ...
Volvo Launches 2013 C30 Polestar Limited Edition in US
12 Sep 2012, 09:28 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo and their in-house tuner Polestar have teamed to create a new limited edition model for the US market. The C30 compact 3-door hatchback is the beneficiary of the custom treatment in this case,...
Volvo V40 Polestar Coming
16 Jul 2012, 14:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Fresh on the heels of the magnificent S60 Polestar, which has a whopping 508 horsepower T6 engine that seems to run on rocket fuel, we bring you more good news from Sweden. This time, it will be a m...
Volvo S60 Polestar First Video Footage
6 Jul 2012, 09:44 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Swedish people are a strange bunch, who speak a very viking-like language and make furniture out of flexible fur trees. However, the country is also in love with cars and speed. It seems that...
Hot Volvo S60 Polestar Unveiled
17 Jun 2012, 12:07 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo has unveiled the most blood fizzing car it has shown in a very long time at the Gothenburg City Race in Sweden over the weekend. It’s called the S60 Polestar and we have a problem with i...
Volvo S60 Polestar Teased
7 Jun 2012, 14:40 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Swedish carmaker Volvo has plans of turning Polestar into a sort of Skunk Works division, their very own in-house tuner. The two companies already collaborated on the 400 horsepower 2.5T-powered C30...
Volvo S60 R Polestar Rendering
30 May 2012, 14:09 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / No automaker becomes famous for making safe, boring and efficient car. But volvo is about all those things, plus a bit of sensible Swedish design on top. So while engineers have been working on airb...
Spyshots: Polestar Volvo S60 R Performance Saloon
25 May 2012, 12:58 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It’s hard to keep up with what Volvo is doing with the S60, but they are definitely doing something to their sedan! For a while now, they’ve had plans for a performance division with the...
Volvo S60 TTA Polestar Race Car
21 Feb 2012, 11:02 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volvo wants to be known for building safe cars, for sensible people with gray clothes and big families. And so as not to get their hands dirty, Polestar and TTA have built the racing car that will s...
Volvo to Introduce Performance Division, C30 Polestar PCP to Enter Production
4 Jul 2011, 07:44 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Have you ever looked at the Volvo C30 Polestar Performance Concept Prototype (PCP) and said “sure, I’d love to drive one of those”? If the answer is yes you might be in luck, as Vo...
James Thompson to Race for Polestar
18 Jan 2011, 09:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The 2011 racing season promises to be one to remember for Swedish manufacturer Volvo and its motorsport partner Polestar Racing, after the two announce they managed to get two-time British and Europ...
Polestar to Enter 2011 WTCC with Volvo C30 DRIVe
28 Sep 2010, 12:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Volvo's preferred team for the World Touring Car Championship, Polestar, has received the permission of the Swedish manufacturer to enter in the 2011 season of the competition a Volvo C30 DRIVe...