Volvo eyes up V40 and XC60 for Polestar treatment

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Monday, August 25, 2014

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Volvo eyes up V40 and XC60 for Polestar treatment Volvo is weighing up which model could be next in its line-up to receive the Polestar treatment, with the V40 and XC60 currently the front-runners.

The new Polestar model would join the all-wheel drive, turbocharged petrol S60 saloon and V60 estate. Whichever model Volvo picks, however, it will get a very high-powered four-cylinder engine.
Although there have been reports that a V40 hot hatch has already been signed off, Volvo global powertrain boss Derek Crabb says that isn’t the case.

“If you ask each of the individual markets which [Polestar] they want, some will say V40, some will say XC60, some will say S60,” he said. “I don’t think we can do that commercially, so we are trying to rationalise that.”
Crabb was clear that the high-performance four-cylinder Drive-E engine – which is also scheduled to be fitted to the S60/V60 Polestar in 2016 – would not be a backward step in terms of power. It seems likely that it will not be far off the 355bhp offered by the Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG
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“A customer buying a 329bhp six-cylinder car today isn’t going to go down [in power] when he buys a four-cylinder,” Crabb said. “So there is going to be a high-performance Polestar [four-cylinder] engine.”
Crabb revealed that Volvo is expecting 750 S60 and V60 Polestar sales this year from the handful of markets in which the cars are marketed, but he wants that to climb to 1250 per annum within a couple of years.