All Hail The 415-HP Volvo Wagon

There is a belief that the easiest way to impress an automotive journalist is two-fold. One, make it a wagon. Two, make it brown. While it may not be brown, the new Volvo V60 Polestar checks off the wagon box admirably. In Volvo lingo, the 415-hp V60 Polestar is dubbed an “estate car” rather than a “station wagon,” but miraculously that only serves to make it cooler, rather than snobby.

The debut of the V60 Polestar follows the 2018 release of a tuned up S60 sedan, which sold out within minutes. For the wagon, ahem, estate car, Volvo and Polestar equipped the V60 with a supercharged and turbocharged engine to turn the front wheels and an electric motor to drive the back ones. The plug-in hybrid allows for a number of different driving setups, including a Power mode for, well, power, a Pure mode that exclusively relies on the electric motor, as well as all-wheel drive and Hybrid modes.

The Volvo V60 Polestar is outfitted with a custom suspension by Öhlins that makes the car more responsive and powerful six-piston brakes that are a collaboration between Polestar Engineered and Brembo.

The Volvo V60 Polestar Engineered wagon will go on sale this summer. The price has not been released, but the new high-performance Volvo wagon should cost less than the $108,850 Mercedes-Benz AMG E 63 S.