Polestar has come a long way since its days as a plucky racing team hucking Volvos around tracks in the Swedish Touring Car Championship in the late 1990s. By 2009, Volvo started selling a wicked Polestar-branded performance version of its C30 hot hatch road car, with S60 and V60 models to follow.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/polestar-1-is-one-hell-of-an-opening-act/