Volvo Car Australia recently announced that it will be on the V8 Supercars Championship grid in 2014 and ready to race.
As the first luxury car brand to join the V8 Supercars Championship with a factory team, Volvo Polestar Racing is a partnership between Volvo Car Australia, Polestar and Garry Rogers Motorsport, and it will be the official Volvo factory racing team.
 “I’m delighted to announce our return to motorsport in Australia,” says Volvo Cars Australia managing director Matt Braid.
“Volvo has a rich motorsport heritage in this country, including winning Australasia’s most famous race, Bathurst, 15 years ago this coming October.
“As the first luxury car brand to enter a factory team in the V8 Supercars Championship, we’re determined to add to this heritage, while strengthening the presence of the S60 model line and the Volvo brand here.”
“I’m delighted to see Volvo back in motorsport in this part of the world.  Kiwi’s regularly talk about the days of the Wellington Street Race and Volvo’s past successes at Bathhurst, “says Volvo New Zealand general manager Steve Kenchington
“We look forward to seeing the S60’s at Pukekohe next year along with promoting our Polestar engine enhancement software to the local market”.
“The opportunity to utilise the Car of the Future regulations to introduce Volvo to our category is certainly very exciting. And I know that if we continue to work hard it will also become very rewarding,” says Garry Rogers.
“The opportunity to align ourselves with Volvo, one of the world’s most recognised brands, and team up with Christian Dahl and Polestar, is first class.”
Volvo Cars has a rich heritage of motorsport in Australasia, having won the 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship in 1986 with Kiwi, Robbie Francevic in a Volvo 240T. This year marks the 15th anniversary of Volvo winning Australia’s most famous race, the Bathurst 1000 in 1998 with Jim Richards and Rickard Rydell in a Volvo S40.”