This is a very big year for Polestar, as the Scandinavia startup grows from a one-car company into a three-car business. The four-year-old Polestar 2 will soon be joined by the 3 (the full-size SUV driven here), as well as the smaller, sleeker 4. Next year we'll see the Polestar 5, which is expected to be an up-market rival to the Porsche Taycan and Audio e-tron GT, and the Polestar 6, a convertible sports car, is due in 2026.
Here I’m focusing on the Polestar 3, which I first sampled as a prototype on a frozen Arctic lake, and have now driven on the roads of Madrid. Priced from £75,900 (or about £1,000 a month), the 3 is available to order now and deliveries of the ‘launch edition’ version (which costs £4,000 more) are due to kick-off in September. It’s a dual-motor, all-wheel-drive electric car, with a single-motor variant joining the lineup later.
