The company, who is behind Volvo’s championship-wining Swedish Touring Car team, is developing a street legal 400 hp, all wheel drive Volvo C30. This is the first time when the company's designers and engineers work on a complete road car project - when they’re not busy throwing racecars over kerbs, the company’s employees develop performance enhancements for standard Volvo cars in Sweden, UK, Denmark and the Netherlands.
The idea of the project is to see what happens when a championship-wining product development team concentrates on a (more or less) everyday driving vehicle. The name of the project? Plain simple: the C30 Performance Concept Prototype.
"We love the Volvo C30 - it’s a great car with huge potential for development with its low weight and low centre of gravity. It’s also a fantastic road car. But now we go much further by combining the road car with cutting edge racing technology," says Robert Dahlgren, race and development driver at Polestar.
"It’s particularly inspiring to develop this specific C30. This car is built just in the way we want to do it. Polestar has probably spent more time than anyone else in the world to get speed out of the C30, and this time we can realize ideas without being halted by specific race regulations," says Jan Andersson, technical director at Polestar Racing.
As we are speaking about a team of specialists, the hyperhatch won’t only concentrate on power: the vehicle will also feature racing-inspired aerodynamics.
We’d be curious to see what Mr. Li Shufu, Geely’s chairman, thinks about this 400 hp AWD madness...
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