any news on S60R?

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Originally posted by asujettaguy19:
Hey folks,
I'm a newbie here and love all cars especially Volvos, (my mom had an old cherry red 82 240 coupe for 10 years), I'm just wondering if there has been any recent news on release dates and features for the new S60R. I searched but all the info is a few months old, thx a million.

Eric W.

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So far, we are still on track for a late Fall release.

Yannis

An add in one of our national newspapers here in Canada for the S60 AWD mentioned the S60R being available in Canada later this fall.

Patrick

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Originally posted by asujettaguy19:
Hey folks,
I'm a newbie here and love all cars especially Volvos, (my mom had an old cherry red 82 240 coupe for 10 years), I'm just wondering if there has been any recent news on release dates and features for the new S60R. I searched but all the info is a few months old, thx a million.

Eric W.

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Hey, my good friend from Sweden called me about something else but I asked her about definitive release plans for the Rs...She told me that we should see them right after the Holidays, right at the beginning of 2003. So here it is!

Yannis

Thx for the warm welcome,
And thx for the info...the car sounds awesome...lets just hope I win 45K sometime soon so I can get one hehe...or I'll just get one off lease win I graduate....this is a really great website and I hope to post here often...

p.s. Indy...do you also post on www.vwvortex.com cause I think I've seen that name somewhere

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Originally posted by InDy:
Eric,

Welcome to Swedespeed!

I have not heard anything new, the same 'ole' stuff really: 6-speed manual, 5-speed Geartronic, around $45,000, 0-60 in 5.4 seconds, 300 hp, Active-Suspension, Haldex AWD etc.

The S60R will be shown at Paris in September and the V70R will be shown at Tokyo in January from what I hear, with production orders starting at week-10.

-Drew

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This is what people from Volvo marketing in the Netherlands told me.
Price is not known at this moment.
Engine is a 2.5 ltr 5 Cylinder.
They also said that production for US introduction should start a little earlier to overcome the time involved to get them to the US market at the same time as the European market introduction.
Separate intro for V70 and S60 was to give both a prime intro.
The "early fall" stories are NOT confirmed by anyone, only the press release of the S60R somewhere in November.