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Polestar's Project Volvo Also Has A Manual.
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Derek Kreindler
(IC: employee)
Published: June 18th, 2012
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Even though Project Volvo is geared towards the budget end of the scale, Sweden’s Polestar has been working on a factory backed S60 concept that puts out 508 horsepower and 424 lb-ft. The most surprising element, aside from the absurd power, is a 6-speed manual gearbox, something not readily available on North American Volvos. Polestar has apparently built one for an unspecified customer. We won’t get to drive it, but we hear there’s a brown XC70 kicking around the press fleet with a Polestar ECU flash.
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Published June 18th, 2012 9:41 AM
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I hope Volvo has beefed up the 1) angle gear (or are these things FWD?) 2)clutch slave from S60R/V70R days or this will be a disaster.
I just can't seem to embrace this new front end philosophy from Volvo... it looks like it was left in the microwave just 30 seconds too long...
I have a friend who bought a Volvo with a manual when they weren't available in the States on that model. They did it via European Delivery. It was a few years back, not sure it still applies.
I was just in the press-fleet brown XC70 T6 with Polestar tune for a week; my review will be up in the next few days on Autosavant. Plenty of power, but Polestar coulda laid hands on the suspension and the transmission programming to make it great...