- Polestar desires to be extra like Porsche or BMW M with its future lineup of EVs.
- Firm officers have confirmed the model’s intention to supply sportier, extra performance-focused automobiles.
- It possible means extra consideration must be paid to the driving dynamics of all its fashions, but in addition that devoted sizzling fashions are coming.
The success of BMW Motorsport and Mercedes-AMG has impressed the creation of different producers’ sizzling sub-brands, similar to Genesis Magma, Hyundai N or Toyota GR, amongst others. Now, Polestar desires to push extra into the efficiency facet of issues with its future fashions, which sound sportier than something it has produced so far.
In accordance with AutoExpress, which attended an occasion at Polestar’s headquarters in Sweden this week, the producer actually is critical about this new route and needs to make sporty driving one of many key traits of its automobiles.
“We need to focus a bit extra on efficiency, as a result of that’s the place we are able to do even higher going ahead, on observe, on acceleration, but in addition when it comes to being superior to others,” Polestar CEO Michael Lohscheller instructed a bunch of journalists, in line with the outlet.
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Proper now, it’s nonetheless unclear precisely what Lohscheller has in retailer. However no matter whether or not it means all Polestar automobiles shall be sportier and higher to drive, or that they’ll spawn devoted efficiency variants, it’s excellent news for drivers who care about that form of factor.
Polestar, which spun out of Volvo in 2017 as an EV-focused model and is owned by China’s Geely Group, already has a moniker for its spiced-up, track-focused efficiency variants: BST, an abbreviation for “beast.” Up to now, it’s solely been used on a few limited-production fashions primarily based on the Polestar 2, however we may see extra going ahead. Polestar confirmed off the Idea BST again in 2024, an aggressive, track-focused evolution of the Polestar 6 idea.
In late January, Polestar’s Australia CEO strongly hinted to CarSales that extra BST-branded efficiency automobiles are on the way in which. “I believe we should always count on some BST enhancements to extra of the vary,” he stated, stopping in need of naming any fashions that will get the therapy.
The corporate lately confirmed that the Polestar 2 was getting a direct alternative arriving subsequent yr that will not be a crossover, and I believe that will be a primary candidate for a brand new BST model.
It will be a challenger for the extra aggressive M variations of the upcoming BMW i3 or for the AMG variant of the electrical Mercedes C-Class. The bigger Polestar 5 (coming this yr) would even be a great match for a extra hardcore efficiency mannequin to problem the supremacy of the Porsche Taycan, which remains to be the perfect efficiency four-door round a observe.
So what upgrades ought to we count on from a Polestar BST? They are going to possible comply with the now acquainted method of reducing and stiffening the suspension, beefing up the brakes, and upgrading the wheels and tires. Extra energy also needs to be on the menu, though Polestar hasn’t given its solely manufacturing BST mannequin any extra oomph. However that might and possibly will change with the arrival of devoted efficiency variations of its fashions which might be extra extensively modified.
Polestar is at present within the early phases of rolling out its largest mannequin offensive ever: 4 new fashions over the subsequent three years. That would give it the a basis to do what Mercedes and BMW have been doing for years: supply a hierarchy of more and more sporty variations of all of the fashions within the lineup, culminating with essentially the most excessive and track-focused one because the range-topper.
The corporate posted report world gross sales in 2025 of simply over 60,000 models, however it’s largely struggled to seek out its footing in a stop-and-go setting for electrical automobiles. Possibly extra of a concentrate on efficiency is the way in which ahead.
