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I've been driving the Volvo S60 Polestar over the last two days, simply commuting from home to the office — a distance of around 20 kilometres each way. The route is mostly slow moving, with the occasional opportunity to punch it for short bursts.
The end of the 2014 V8 Supercars season is almost upon us, following a cracking (and controversial) Bathurst 1000 that saw Ford win for the second year in a row and Nissan claim its first podium finish in the great race since the Skyline GT-R’s infamous 1992 victory...
The Volvo S60 Polestar is back for a third time in Australia. This time though it has a wagon sibling, the V60 Polestar.
The Mercedes-Benz C-Class was Australia’s favourite luxury car in 2013. Perhaps a more impressive fact, however, is that Stuttgart’s mid-sized model outsold every mainstream medium car except the Camry and Mazda 6. It’s fair, then, to call this a significant volume car – as is its decades-old arch enemy, the BMW 3 Series, which matched that last feat...
The Audi A4, BMW 3 Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class accounted for three-quarters of their segment’s sales in 2013, though that still meant one in four buyers looking for a mid-sized luxury car priced above $60,000 wanted something non-German. We had this factoid in mind when we decided to do something a bit different with our plan to compare the new-generation C-Class just released...
Jez Spinks reviews Volvo's updated S60, which debuts the new four-cylinder turbo Drive-E engine.
Performance sedans come in various degrees of hardcore, and the Audi S4 and Volvo S60 Polestar aim to play in a middle ground sweet spot. They are more premium than our home-grown FPV and HSV sports sedans, yet aren’t quite as focused as the German trio of BMW M3, Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG and Audi’s own RS5 Sportback...
Trent Nikolic finds Volvo's revised sports sedan is a big improvement on the original...
Volvo S60 and V60 get a fresh nose, but the brand's new engines don't yet feature behind it.
The Volvo S60 Polestar is bravely being pitched as a rival to German sports sedans.
You could call this the naughtiest Volvo. The brand that has been synonymous with safety for decades has been aiming to reach out to keen drivers with its latest-generation S60 that launched in late 2010, but now it's taken another step.
