A jolly good showing by Volvo last year saw the Chinese ... friendly and much more powerful plug in hybrid V60 AWD is £48,935 ...

And now with Volvo officially confirming it has taken the V60 Polestar Engineered plug-in hybrid off sale in the U.S., you can add it to the list of victims that have fallen prey to the wagon cull.

The midsize wagon — pretty lonely among U.S. offerings — gets some real oomph from its hybrid power train. And the Swedish nameplate may actually have produced a workable, nonirritating touchscreen.

The Volvo V60 debuted for the 2015 model year as a station wagon version of Volvo’s S60 sedan. The V60 and S60 slotted below the larger V90 wagon and S90 sedan in Volvo’s car lineup.