Despite recent rumours to the contrary, it seems that Volvo will not be bringing the
wonderful 400hp C30 Polestar concept
(star of PH last year, and more recently some motoring programme they show on
Sadly, the official line at Volvo is that, although the Polestar C30 generated great public interest, and despite the fact that the UK is the biggest global market for the C30, a performance 'halo' car just isn't in Volvo's product plans at the moment. boo, hiss, etc...
Reading between the lines, and using a fair bit of journalistic licence (in other words educated guesswork) we reckon that means Volvo just couldn't put a business case together for the C30 Polestar that would stand up (especially since the V50 four-wheel-drive platform on which the C30 Polestar is based is no longer offered).
And you'd have to say that Volvo's approach does make a lot of sense. As much as we as enthusiasts might like the idea of a 400hp four-wheel-drive Volvo, these sorts of cars only seem to work if you can create a whole range - think BMW 'M', Audi 'RS' or even Jaguar 'R' - particularly so that customers can keep coming back to the sub-brand.
But just because Volvo is shying away from the super-fast Volvo concept, that doesn't meant that Polestar isn't still keen on the idea - and remember that Polestar is a separate company to Volvo. Polestar's marketing chief Hans Baath recently told Autoblog UK that he wants more cars to get the full-on Polestar go-faster conversion.
"The S60/V60 needs to get our treatment - it's a very popular model for Volvo and sells well," said Baath, with whispers of 500hp and 479lb ft of torque a possible outputs for an S60 Polestar (considering the T6 version comes with 304hp and 324lb ft of torque anyway that doesn't seem like a ridiculous prospect).
What chance a 500hp S60, then? Quite high, from the sound of it. But Volvo won't be building it...
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