2014 Volvo S60 Polestar Review: A Day At The Track
Volvo S60 T6 R-Design: $75,140 (plus on-roads) | 242kW/480Nm
Volvo Polestar: $99,950 (plus on-roads), down from $109,950 | 257kW/500Nm
VOLVO S60 POLESTAR
When it comes to motorsport in Australia, it’s been a long time between drinks for Volvo.
Until last Saturday, the last Australian race win to be claimed by the Swedish company was back in 1986.
Back then it was Kiwi Robbie Francevic running a Volvo 240 Turbo, flanked by fellow Volvo driver John Bowe. Francevic went on to win the Australian Touring Car Championship that year.
This time, it was another young Kiwi, Scott McLaughlin, who piloted his S60 Polestar V8 Supercar to a race win at Perth's Barbagallo Raceway.
He’d already proved his worth at the Melbourne F1 support race with a podium finish, but he took the top step on the V8 Supercars' dias in Race 1 at the Perth 400.
Coming off the back of this historic race win, the first in 28 years, Volvo held a drive day at the RAC Driver Training Centre in Perth and invited TMR along to experience the 2014 S60 Polestar.
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