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The C30 Polestar concept was everything Volvo’s little fun-hatch should have been, with all-wheel-drive and 405…
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The Polestar 1 is a wildly beautiful coupe that, when it first was announced, you couldn’t really buy. All we knew…
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There’s still no full-on Volvo XC90 T8 Polestar, but the Swedish skunkworks now offers an “Optimization Package” for the hybrid SUV that bumps output to 421 horsepower and a little over 500 ft-lbs of torque. Torque is good.
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