Polestar is benchmarking its upcoming drop-top sports activities automotive in opposition to the Porsche 911 and Taycan, as a way to imbue it with class-leading driving dynamics. The Polestar 6’s debut continues to be some 4 years sooner or later, however the producer just lately revealed some bits of details about the upcoming two-door roadster constructing anticipation that will probably be a real (electrical) driver’s automotive.
Australia’s Drive spoke to Edward Trinh, Polestar Australia’s Product Planning Supervisor throughout a neighborhood occasion and he revealed that the corporate was “very critical” about making the automotive deal with nicely. Polestar is outwardly taking a look at equipping the automobile with “trick suspension” and giving it a bonded aluminum unibody much like a McLaren supercar.
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Edward Trinh was quoted as saying
Talking to the R&D workforce, we received a little bit of insider info from the top of auto dynamics for this automobile [that] they’re trying [into] trick suspension methods.
They’re extremely critical about it. It must deal with. Car dynamics is our background, we don’t neglect about that heritage.
Polestar desires the roadster to have 650 kW (871 horsepower) and 663 pound-feet (900 Nm) of torque, which ought to allow it to dash to 62 mph (100 km/h) in 3.2 seconds and on to a prime velocity of 155 mph (250 km/h). The producer can also be concentrating on a WLTP vary of 372 miles (600 km) for this mannequin, so it ought to have a reasonably large battery pack of round 100 kWh – it may even be the identical 111 kWh pack powering the Polestar 3 SUV.
It is going to function an 800-volt electrical structure shared with the Polestar 5, able to charging a 100 kWh battery pack to 80 p.c in underneath 20 minutes. And similar to the Porsche 911, will probably be a four-seater, though after we noticed the idea earlier this yr, it didn’t appear to be the rear seats could be too usable.
The first 500 LA Concept Edition Polestar 6 roadsters have already been reserved, which is sort of outstanding provided that the automobile is just coming in 2026. These first 500 autos will function the O2 concept’s Sky Blue paint job, wheel design and light-weight inside, with subsequent variants providing extra visible variety (together with a pure white paint choice).
