For Polestar, the last few years brought on a drastic change. With their turn to electricity, the company went from painting a target on the back of Mercedes-Benz AMG and BMW M to acquiring completely different high-level targets. With their path to electrification clearly laden, the company sees itself going toe-to-toe with Tesla and the increasingly EV-oriented Porsche.

The 2019 Volvo S60 has both beauty and brawn. Not only does the range-topping Polestar Engineered option comes with a hefty 415-horsepower (309 kilowatts) and 494 pound-feet (669 Newton-meters) of torque, but it also features a performance add-ons like new wheels, an upgraded suspension, bigger brakes… aaaaand it’s gone.

Swedish super-coupe gets sideways in the snow.

The final asking price will be somewhere around $150,000.

Polestar, now its own brand within Volvo Cars Group, unveiled its first production car this past October, the Polestar 1.

The Polestar 4 will be a fully electric, open-top vehicle.

To be completed in mid-2018.

The hybrid high-performance Polestar 1 and pure electric Polestar 2 look set to trump anything Elon Musk can muster