Automotive World: Volvo C30

Volvo Offers Factory-Backed Polestar Performance Kits in the USA

CATEGORY: Tuning , Volvo , Volvo C30 , Volvo C70 , Volvo S40 / V50 | Senin, 07 November 2011

You know that the world is changing when a carmaker like Volvo, once the staple of doctors and soccer moms, which cherished the brand's safe and square (in both meanings of the word) station wagon models, starts engaging in “factory-authorized” tuning for some of its models.

Volvo North America announced that its Sweden-based, long-time tuning partner Polestar, maker of the one-off 405HP AWD C30 and 330HP S60 performance concepts, has developed software upgrades for the 2008MY and later C30, C70 and S40 models equipped with the five-cylinder turbocharged gasoline T5 engine.

CATEGORY: Electric Vehicles , Video , Volvo , Volvo C30 , Volvo Videos | Jumat, 04 November 2011

Almost every carmaker already has, or is currently developing, at least one electric vehicle in its range. Volvo is part of that group and it has been testing its C30 Electric since autumn of 2010.

In June, the compact all-electric Volvo entered production –albeit at a limited rate, since it will be available for leasing only to a select number of European buyers.