The interior is just as gorgeous and roomy as the regular XC60's. Like the Volvos of old, there's safety equipment galore including automated emergency braking, blind-spot monitoring, and a lane-departure system. Most likely, these XC60s will serve as low-key speedy transportation, a sort of Volvo 240 Turbo or 850R wagon for the '20s. Will any owner ever take their Polestar to a racetrack and fiddle with its fancy dampers? Probably not. Only the artificial and video-game-like feedback from the steering lets the package down. The brakes have excellent stopping power, and in tight corners the Volvo refuses to excessively punish its front tires. (We've only driven Polestar versions with 22-inch wheels.) The ride is firm, yet the suspension yields to all but the sharpest impacts, and body control is good even over undulations. With the Öhlins dampers in a road-friendly setting, the XC60 drives pretty much like a more buttoned-down T8 model with big wheels and tires. But Volvo is quick to point out that equipping the two SUVs similarly (at $72,045, the Polestar Engineered offers virtually no options and comes fully loaded) erases the pricing disparity.
Audi's turbocharged V-6 makes 349 horsepower, and its pricing starts nearly $20K shy of this XC60's. The SQ5 is down on power relative to the Volvo and costs less than the Swede. The comparison between the two is slightly lopsided, however. Unlike the loud and brash AMG-badged GLC63 or BMW's X3 M, the Volvo is relatively refined and genteel, like the Audi. Volvo tells us that the XC60 T8 Polestar Engineered is aimed squarely at the Audi SQ5. Some of the blame rests on the unsiped shoulders of the large and sticky tires. In our 75-mph fuel-economy test, the Polestar returned 25 mpg to the regular version's 27 mpg. We averaged a not-terrible 21 MPGe with the T8 Polestar in our normal driving that's a mere 1 mpg lower than we managed in a standard XC60 T8. The newly christened Polestar 1 also features similar dampers.īut the Volvo's electrified powertrain means that you can plug it in and travel 19 miles on the battery (per the EPA scale). This isn't the first time Volvo has included this feature on a production car (the previous-generation S60 and V60 Polestar models featured them), but this is the first time we've seen them on a compact crossover. Unlike the adaptive suspensions offered on other Volvos, in which you can select comfortable and sportier settings via a button inside the car, T8 Polestar owners won't be able to fiddle with their settings on the fly. Easily the zaniest aspect of the XC60's Polestar Engineered treatment are the manually adjustable Öhlins dampers, which require opening the hood to turn the single knob that adjusts rebound and compression for the front and a dainty hand to reach a similar dial in the wheel well to adjust the rear. Yes, here's a Volvo that is a plug-in hybrid, a high-performance sport-ute, and an everyday compact luxury crossover rolled into one by the automaker's in-house tuner, Polestar. Aside from the strange name, you get a handsome and luxurious plug-in hybrid with 415 horsepower on tap and a manually adjustable suspension like you'd find on a race car. The 2020 Volvo XC60 compact crossover now comes in T8 Polestar Engineered flavor. 1/9/20 UPDATE: This review has been updated with test results.
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