Polestar Has More Than 1 or 2 Cars—Shows 3, 4, and 5
Polestar 3, 4, and 5 models soon will join the Polestar 2 in the lineup.
Polestar continues to inundate us with more news than models. The Swedish-heritage, Chinese-owned electric car maker has a lineup of one right now, at least since the Polestar 1 ended production: the Polestar 2 four-door fastback, though it's running a sportier limited-edition Polestar 2 BST Edition 270 up the hill at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and is prepping its flagship Polestar 5 for production.
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So far this year, the automaker has received more than 32,000 orders globally for the Polestar 2 as development continues on future Polestars. To help finance these future plans, Polestar is on track to go public at the end of June with a planned listing on the Nasdaq in a business arrangement with Gores Guggenheim.
We have been promised the Polestar 3 midsize SUV, Polestar 4 compact and coupe-like SUV, and Polestar 5 four-door GT—a launch a year for three years—and we are finally getting a few more glimpses and details of this growing portfolio, including the family group photo of all them above.
The 2023 Polestar 3 performance SUV is scheduled to make its world debut in October to take on the Tesla Model Y. It shares underpinnings with the next-gen Volvo XC90 and will be built in the same Volvo plant in South Carolina for sale in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2023.
Polestar 4, which is the size of the compact Volvo XC60, will launch globally in 2023, but might not be available in the U.S. until 2024. It will be built in China. The teaser image shows that under that wrap, the rear end of the SUVs share design elements. It is designed to compete with the Porsche Macan, and has a swoopier roofline than a conventional compact luxury SUV.
Finally, the Polestar 5 electric four-door GT is due in 2024 and a prototype will be on display at Goodwood next week and complete several hill climbs. The Polestar 5 is the production version of the Precept concept we first saw in 2020. It will be a low-volume performance car on a new dedicated Polestar platform and will use a bonded aluminum spaceframe and adorn it with minimalist Swedish design. It will be built in Chongqing, China, and is set to take on the Porsche Panamera. Plans are to build 30,000 cars a year starting in 2024.
Alisa Priddle joined MotorTrend in 2016 as the Detroit Editor. A Canadian, she received her Bachelor of Journalism degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and has been a reporter for 40 years, most of it covering the auto industry because there is no more fascinating arena to cover. It has it all: the vehicles, the people, the plants, the competition, the drama. Alisa has had a wonderfully varied work history as a reporter for four daily newspapers including the Detroit Free Press where she was auto editor, and the Detroit News where she covered the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies, as well as auto trade publication Wards, and two enthusiast magazines: Car & Driver and now MotorTrend. At MotorTrend Alisa is a judge for the MotorTrend Car, Truck, SUV and Person of the Year. She loves seeing a new model for the first time, driving it for the first time, and grilling executives for the stories behind them. In her spare time, she loves to swim, boat, sauna, and then jump into a cold lake or pile of snow.
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