Volvo reportedly mulling another Polestar model

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V40 and XC60 being considered for next collaboration with Swedish tuning house

Volvo is considering another production Polestar version of one of its cars, which could be the V40 or the XC60, according to Autocar. Swedish tuner Polestar's first official collaboration with Volvo came in the form of the C30 hatch, before Volvo tested the waters in a bigger way with the S60 sedan in Australia. The automaker and the tuning house recently collaborated once again on a group of 350-hp S60 sedans and V60 wagons for the U.S. market, which have recently gone on sale. But all of those efforts have been relatively small-scale, with just 40 examples of the S60 sedan and 80 examples of the V60 wagon having been built for the U.S.
Volvo is looking for the next project to collaborate on with Polestar, and according to Volvo global powertrain boss Derek Crabb it could either be the small V40 hatch or the XC60 crossover. The former isn't sold in the U.S., while the XC60 crossover has been on sale here for a few years. Crabb told Autocar that a decision had not been made yet, and that different markets were leaning toward different models.
"If you ask each of the individual markets which [Polestar] they want, some will say V40, some will say XC60, some will say S60," Crabb told Autocar. "I don’t think we can do that commercially, so we are trying to rationalize that."
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If Volvo does go ahead with the V40, it would most certainly not make it to the U.S., as Volvo has no short-term (or long-term) plans to introduce the V40 to North America. The V40 is offered in standard five-door and five-door Cross Country spec in other markets, with the top-spec versions powered by a 254-hp and 295 lb-ft of torque T5 engines. The V40 is positioned below the V60 and does not have a corresponding sedan variant. The XC60, on the other hand, is on sale in North America and is powered by a 300-hp 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-six. We have a feeling we already know which of the two would look less conspicuous in traffic painted in Polestar's Rebel Blue, but Volvo is still a long way away from announcing the markets which will receive whatever model Volvo chooses. - See more at: http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/volvo-reportedly-mulling-another-polestar-model#sthash.64HMBaAD.dpuf

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