Volvo launches its fastest car, Polestar

Swedish automobile company Volvo Cars on Friday launched its fastest car Volvo S60 Polestar priced at Rs.52.5 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). In a statement issued here, Volvo Cars said the Polestar is the quickest car from Volvo's stable, making 0 to 100 km/hour sprint in just 4.7 seconds and having a top speed of 250 km/hour. According to the company, Polestar has taken an original S60 and added a bigger turbo, a supercharger, new conrods, new camshafts, a larger air intake and a higher capacity fuel pump to augment the engine; matched it with a BorgWarner four-wheel drive system and the new Polestar-optimised eight-speed Geartronic automatic gearbox.