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Polestar

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Website
  
www.polestar.se

Founded
  
1996

Type of business
  
Subsidiary of Volvo Cars

Owner
  
Volvo Cars

Headquarters
  
Gothenburg


Products
  
High performance engines and cars, Automotive sports accessories

Profiles

Volvo polestar racing no team orders


Polestar is the official Volvo Cars performance company and brand, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Until 2015, Polestar Performance was a division of Polestar along with the Polestar racing team. and prototypes. Volvo announced in July 2015 that it had purchased Polestar Performance. The racing team will remain under the direction of Christian Dahl, changing name from Polestar Racing to Cyan Racing. A close cooperation with Polestar is maintained with Cyan Racing becoming official motorsport partner to Polestar, the Volvo Cars performance brand.

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Polestar Volvo To Enter Formula E With Polestar Division

Volvo s60 polestar race car vs road car fifth gear


Production Cars

Polestar Engineered Polestar

Polestar Performance produces limited edition Volvo performance models, such as the Volvo S60 and V60 Polestar, and engine optimisations for turbocharged Volvo road cars as the official performance partner of Volvo with retained warranty and unchanged fuel consumption and emissions. The engine optimisation increases the power and torque output, varying depending on engine model.

Concept Cars

Polestar Volvo S60 Polestar Concept Polestar

Polestar Performance produces prototype cars as well, with the first and most famous being the C30 Polestar Performance Concept Prototype (2010) with over 450 bhp and 510 Nm.

Polestar 2015 Volvo S60 V60 Polestar First Drive Review Car and Driver

The Volvo S60 Polestar Concept is the heir to the C30 Polestar, featuring 508 BHP from a modified T6 engine, launched in June 2012. The car sprints from 0–100 km/h in 3.9 seconds with a top speed of over 300 km/h. American car magazine Motor Trend tested the car at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca where it broke the lap record for four-door cars, matching the lap time of an Audi R8.

Racing

Since 2014, Polestar Performance has been involved in the development of a V8 powered Volvo S60 that is raced by Garry Rogers Motorsport in the Australian V8 Supercars series. Robert Dahlgren was seconded to Australia in 2014 as part of this programme & Pulled out in the end of 2016.

References

Polestar Wikipedia