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"As the cooler and more exciting alternative to the &amp;quot;stock car&amp;quot; racing we get here from NASCAR, the Australian V8 Supercars series is preparing to kick off its 2014 season with a testing session in Sydney. In conjunction with these tests and ahead of the season-opening race in a couple weeks at the Clipsal 500, Volvo used the opportunity to show off its new S60 racecar in grand fashion by driving it through the streets of Australia&amp;#039;s most populated city. One of the best parts about this racing series is that all entrants actually look like cars we see on the road, and this goes for Volvo&amp;#039;s S60 V8 Supercar that is easily recognizable as counterpart to the production S60. Aside from all the racing upgrades, the biggest difference is what&amp;#039;s under the hood as all cars are required to use a 5.0-liter V8. Powering this S60 is a Polestar-tuned Volvo V8, based on the old XC90 and S80 V8 street block, pumping out 650 hp allowing the car to hit speeds in excess of 186 mph\u2014a big step up from 250 hp in the base S60 and even the 345 hp in the S60/V60 Polestar. Volvo will field two S60s in V8 Supercars this season going up against competitors from Holden, Ford, Nissan and Mercedes-Benz. We&amp;#039;ve already heard this engine at full rev, but this was car&amp;#039;s first time getting to see the car in motion with a showing the racecar driving into through Sydney. There are also new images of the race S60 sitting alongside a standard S60, so you can see the massive changes Polestar made. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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