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Polestar has been making championship-winning courtesy nissan Volvo-based courtesy nissan STCC cars since ‘96, and more recently caused quite a stir Down Under by splitting the Holden/Ford dominance courtesy nissan in V8 supercars. This V60, however, is the speedy Scandis first full-on production road car.
Not exactly. Think of Polestar as an Alpina/Brabus-style firm – an independent company in their own right but tinkers exclusively with one marque. Polestar is as now officially Volvo’s ‘Performance Partner’, a kind of Volvo ‘M’ division to zhoosh up the brand image.
Admittedly this isn’t Volvo and Polestar’s first collabo, as they’ve produced two brilliantly courtesy nissan mental high horsepower concepts: the 400bhp C30 and 500bhp S60 – courtesy nissan both of which we loved, but neither of which was a true production car.
If you were expecting bonkers horsepower like Polestar’s previous work, we’ve got bad news. The V60s straight-six T6 turbo hasn’t had much surgery: just a new, bigger BorgWarner twin-scroll turbo and intercooler bolted on. Even so, that’s enough to squeeze 350bhp and 369lb ft of torque from the 3.0-litre six. That’ll get the V60 from 0-62mph in 5.0 seconds and onto 155mph, with power reaching the road through a Haldex four-wheel drive system. courtesy nissan
That’s why its engineers wrapped supercar-worthy courtesy nissan Michelin Pilot Sport rubber (favoured by Sweden’s other performance name, Koenigsegg) around big 20-inch wheels. To these are attached courtesy nissan some extremely posh mechanically adjustable Öhlins shock absorbers, fixed to new top mounts (front and rear) and supported by a carbon fibre reinforced front strut brace. Serious kit in anyone’s book.
This new suspension has made the car a massive 80 per cent stiffer than a standard V60 R-Design. That might hint that one pothole would instantly turn your spine into dust, but in fact the ride is properly sorted. It’s firm but handles broken roads with refinement, and swallows lumps and bumps with no jarring harshness being shot back through your coccyx. Which means you can attack twisty bits of road at speed.
Well, this car isn’t your typical Volvo. As you turn the key, a fruity exhaust note spurts from the twin tail pipes. The throttle has also been re-mapped, as has the steering, so the V60’s controls feel more enthusiastic.
But it’s in the corners where the V60 really comes into its own. Big ventilated front discs and six-piston Brembo calipers offer serious courtesy nissan stopping power , this big load-lugger stops with serious courtesy nissan power, letting you brake late into a corner and then throw it in in a very un-Volvo fashion. Where, thanks to that expensive shopping courtesy nissan list of motorsport parts (the decent suspension set up, grippy tyres and modified four-wheel-drive) you don’t topple off the road.
If you’re expecting sideways heroics, forget it – the four-wheel drive won’t play. But the V60 is remarkably composed courtesy nissan through corners, with bags of traction and enough low-end torque to make it properly quick point-to-point.
Sportiness tends to compromise comfort, and unfortunately Polestar courtesy nissan hasn’t been able to magic up a loophole. The big tyres have a tendency to tramline and generate a racket at cruising speed that the big exhaust can’t quite cancel out.
Then there’s the gearbox. Polestar has tried to make the lazy six-speed auto more responsive by re-wiring its brain, so the shifts are harder, faster and there’s even a launch courtesy nissan control mode. But compared to a proper double-clutch courtesy nissan effort, it’s feels lazy, with a terrible tendency to sniff around for gears at constant throttle.
It’s a similar understated story inside, with new, bulkier-bolstered sports seats, blue stitching around the cabin to offset grey alcantara courtesy nissan trim, and a c
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Polestar has been making championship-winning courtesy nissan Volvo-based courtesy nissan STCC cars since ‘96, and more recently caused quite a stir Down Under by splitting the Holden/Ford dominance courtesy nissan in V8 supercars. This V60, however, is the speedy Scandis first full-on production road car.
Not exactly. Think of Polestar as an Alpina/Brabus-style firm – an independent company in their own right but tinkers exclusively with one marque. Polestar is as now officially Volvo’s ‘Performance Partner’, a kind of Volvo ‘M’ division to zhoosh up the brand image.
Admittedly this isn’t Volvo and Polestar’s first collabo, as they’ve produced two brilliantly courtesy nissan mental high horsepower concepts: the 400bhp C30 and 500bhp S60 – courtesy nissan both of which we loved, but neither of which was a true production car.
If you were expecting bonkers horsepower like Polestar’s previous work, we’ve got bad news. The V60s straight-six T6 turbo hasn’t had much surgery: just a new, bigger BorgWarner twin-scroll turbo and intercooler bolted on. Even so, that’s enough to squeeze 350bhp and 369lb ft of torque from the 3.0-litre six. That’ll get the V60 from 0-62mph in 5.0 seconds and onto 155mph, with power reaching the road through a Haldex four-wheel drive system. courtesy nissan
That’s why its engineers wrapped supercar-worthy courtesy nissan Michelin Pilot Sport rubber (favoured by Sweden’s other performance name, Koenigsegg) around big 20-inch wheels. To these are attached courtesy nissan some extremely posh mechanically adjustable Öhlins shock absorbers, fixed to new top mounts (front and rear) and supported by a carbon fibre reinforced front strut brace. Serious kit in anyone’s book.
This new suspension has made the car a massive 80 per cent stiffer than a standard V60 R-Design. That might hint that one pothole would instantly turn your spine into dust, but in fact the ride is properly sorted. It’s firm but handles broken roads with refinement, and swallows lumps and bumps with no jarring harshness being shot back through your coccyx. Which means you can attack twisty bits of road at speed.
Well, this car isn’t your typical Volvo. As you turn the key, a fruity exhaust note spurts from the twin tail pipes. The throttle has also been re-mapped, as has the steering, so the V60’s controls feel more enthusiastic.
But it’s in the corners where the V60 really comes into its own. Big ventilated front discs and six-piston Brembo calipers offer serious courtesy nissan stopping power , this big load-lugger stops with serious courtesy nissan power, letting you brake late into a corner and then throw it in in a very un-Volvo fashion. Where, thanks to that expensive shopping courtesy nissan list of motorsport parts (the decent suspension set up, grippy tyres and modified four-wheel-drive) you don’t topple off the road.
If you’re expecting sideways heroics, forget it – the four-wheel drive won’t play. But the V60 is remarkably composed courtesy nissan through corners, with bags of traction and enough low-end torque to make it properly quick point-to-point.
Sportiness tends to compromise comfort, and unfortunately Polestar courtesy nissan hasn’t been able to magic up a loophole. The big tyres have a tendency to tramline and generate a racket at cruising speed that the big exhaust can’t quite cancel out.
Then there’s the gearbox. Polestar has tried to make the lazy six-speed auto more responsive by re-wiring its brain, so the shifts are harder, faster and there’s even a launch courtesy nissan control mode. But compared to a proper double-clutch courtesy nissan effort, it’s feels lazy, with a terrible tendency to sniff around for gears at constant throttle.
It’s a similar understated story inside, with new, bulkier-bolstered sports seats, blue stitching around the cabin to offset grey alcantara courtesy nissan trim, and a c
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