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Even though Project Volvo is geared towards the budget end of the scale, Sweden’s Polestar has been working on a factory backed S60 concept that puts out 508 horsepower and 424 lb-ft. The most surprising element, aside from the absurd power, is a 6-speed manual gearbox, something not readily available on North American Volvos. Polestar has apparently built one for an unspecified customer. We won’t get to drive it, but we hear there’s a brown XC70 kicking around the press fleet with a Polestar ECU flash.
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Wow. I’d like to see a road test on that pretty animal.
Return of a REAL S-60R?
I hope Volvo has beefed up the
1) angle gear (or are these things FWD?)
2)clutch slave
from S60R/V70R days or this will be a disaster.
I just can’t seem to embrace this new front end philosophy from Volvo… it looks like it was left in the microwave just 30 seconds too long…
Volvo S60…Honda Civic FWD proportions for the price of an Infiniti. I just can’t get past paying >$30k for a car shaped like a <$20k economy car.
I have a friend who bought a Volvo with a manual when they weren’t available in the States on that model. They did it via European Delivery. It was a few years back, not sure it still applies.
I was just in the press-fleet brown XC70 T6 with Polestar tune for a week; my review will be up in the next few days on Autosavant. Plenty of power, but Polestar coulda laid hands on the suspension and the transmission programming to make it great…