Report: Volvo turned to Polestar for S60 and XC60 R-Design performance upgrades
is known for many things. Well, safety technology, mostly, but not so much performance. Sure, the Swedish automaker has tricked out the occasional sport wagon, but muscle is not really its forte. So where did the extra 25 horsepower and 29 pound-feet of torque come from when Volvo models? Polestar, if the latest reports are to be believed.
The Volvo tuner, as you may recall, is responsible for , and also gave us last year. Pretty Swede stuff, if you ask us. And according to Swedespeed.com, it was to Polestar that Volvo turned for those modest, but notable performance upgrades on its R-Design models.
What’s more is that Volvo is reportedly looking into ways to offer Polestar performance upgrades to existing customers – say, owners of the pre-boosted S60 and XC60 R-Design, for example – and potentially offering more upgrades on future models. We wouldn’t go so far as to suggest that Polestar is becoming to Volvo what AMG is to or the M division is to , but Brabus and Alpina – that is to say, quasi-works-endorsed tuning houses – could be models to look to here.
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