[en] The ¹⁶O(¹⁶O,¹²C)²⁰Ne reaction has been studied at beam energies of 68 and 90 MeV. At these energies, this reaction is selective for populating high spin states well known to have a large overlap with α+¹⁶O. The angular distributions have been analyzed with an EFR-DWBA code. Good fits are obtained and the resulting relative α particle spectroscopic factors for the ²⁰Ne states are in good agreement with shell model predictions, and with other results from different α transfer reactions. The polarization of the ²⁰Ne has been measured by angular correlations between ¹²C and ¹⁶O (product of the ²⁰Ne decay). As expected from a semi-classical view of the transfer, a strong ²⁰Ne polarization, on an axis perpendicular to the reaction plane has been found. This polarization remains constant on a wide span of ¹²C angles. Different nuclear reaction models have been tested. With selected potentials, the DWBA predicts a strong polarization in this case of a heavy ion transfer, but not as strong as the one observed in the experiment. Some possible reasons for this difference are indicated