It’s not every day a car brand launches into a new territory, particularly when that brand is Volvo – the Swedish brand known as much for playing it safe as they are for safety itself. And yet at the launch event for the new Volvo XC40 in Fourways, I found … Read more
After we gave you your first look at the new Polestar 1 – the first model from Polestar after establishing themselves as a standalone performance electric brand – today the Swedish based firm has unveiled the Polestar 1 in full. Based upon the SPA modular architecture that underpins the … Read more
This is the Polestar 1 Concept before you’re supposed to see it… sort of. Ahead of its full reveal tomorrow, Polestar – the newly separated standalone electrified performance brand once responsible for all things Volvo and fast – has been releasing small pieces of the puzzle that is the first … Read more
I grew up with a father who loved the idea of a Volvo station wagon. Growing up in the mid 90s, I can only imagine the one he lusted after was the 850 T-5R estate, in Cream Yellow as they called it. My late father never did own that Volvo … Read more
The Volvo S60 might be aging, but that hasn’t made the range topping performance model, the Volvo S60 Polestar, any less popular among the diehard fans. Thus far, we’ve seen two batches brought into SA, including the latest 4-cylinder powered models, with all of them being snapped up before they … Read more
The executive sedan is a tricky thing for manufacturers to do. See, anyone can build a compact executive sedan – a 3 Series rival whose size and price is fairly approachable for the layman. Executive sedans, not so much; they’re large, packed with tech, and usually have price tags beyond … Read more
You may remember our Tech Talk segment on turbo-lag; what it is, what it isn’t, and the ways around it. At the time of writing, there were only a few ways around it, with the most likely going forward in production cars being ‘electric turbocharging’. Audi has proven us right … Read more
