The 600hp Polestar 1 gets a slidey winter shakedown
Finally, we get to see the hybrid super-coupe in action
After what seems like an eternity since its reveal, the Polestar 1 development is making swift progress ahead of the car hitting the road next year.
As part of the development, the R&D team at Polestar has released this clip of the 600hp hybrid coupe being put through a punishing handling test regime in deepest, coldest Northern Sweden.
It shows a test mule being thoroughly tested in extreme temperatures as low as minus-28 degrees Celsius. The clip says this prototype was stripped of all driver support systems (we like!) so that the R&D driver could get a feel for the “exact base chassis settings,” including the testing of a host of chassis components, such as all-important parts like shocks, springs, bushes and anti-roll bars.
One other focus was the Polestar 1’s torque vectoring system, which consists of a pair of electric motors on the rear axle, with individual gear sets. With the frozen climate providing the perfect terrain for testing the traction and grip to the extreme, all with a bit of hooligan sideways action, because when in Sweden and all that.
According to Polestar Chief Thomas Ingenleth, they are super-excited at how the car drives saying “besides being very happy with the balance of the chassis, they are particularly excited about the torque vectoring. We are now very confident about how this enhances the Polestar 1’s cornering responsiveness and accuracy,” while also confirming the team are aiming to make the Polestar 1 a proper drivers car, with the development continuing into the year before the model hits the road in 2019.
The Polestar 1 will be at the Auto China 2018 show next week from 25 April to 4 May 2018.
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Excited to see how it actually performs. So much potential within that polestar department.
The fact that it can and will slide, means it could be a hoot to drive. Which is what we all want from a car..