After having designed and run Volvo's STCC championship winning C30 and launched Polestar Performance power optimization for Volvo cars in 2009, the engineers at Polestar needed a new challenge. This time they got a standard Volvo C30 and free hands to design and build a concept of their dreams street car.

The project has been named Performance Concept Prototype, PCP to emphasize its main purpose; to find out what happens when a team of racing engineers and designers get free hands to do what they want with a car they normally develop to fit specific race regulations.

"We love the Volvo C30, it’s a great car from start with a huge potential for development with its low weight and low centre of gravity. It’s also a great road car. But now we go far 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.

The concept includes an 400PS-engine, AWD, aerodynamics based on Polestar race car data and much more.

Updates on the project, including technical specifications, will be posted on our web site.

First public appearance of the PCP will be at Gothenburg MotorShow 22-25 April.

Source: Polestar