Stunning 2026 Polestar 5 Is Finally Ready For Production With 884 Hp, A Supercar-stiff Platform And No Rear Window

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Back successful 2020 Polestar unveiled the Precept concept, a gorgeous four-door expansive tourer that nan institution promised would spell into accumulation arsenic the Polestar 5. Now 5 years later — and a mates years aft showing disconnected its last exterior design, which looks moreover amended than nan conception — nan accumulation Polestar 5 is here, having conscionable made its charismatic debut astatine nan Munich car show. We've already known astir immoderate of nan Polestar 5's awesome slug points, for illustration its marque caller hot-cured bonded aluminum level and super-fast charging, but now we've sewage tons of juicy specifications and specs astir nan Porsche Taycan competitor.

In a statement, CEO Michael Lohscheller said, "Our imagination for Polestar's design, exertion and sustainability guidance is nary longer a dream but a reality our customers tin bargain ... The Polestar 5 is simply a guiding prima for nan manufacture and nan cleanable Polestar flagship." The Polestar 5 is disposable to bid now successful Europe, but successful North America we'll person to hold a small longer for its launch.

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Underpinning the 5 is nan lightweight Polestar Performance Architecture (PPA), which was developed by Polestar's UK R&D team. It has high-strength aluminum castings, extrusions and pressings that Polestar says springiness it amended torsional rigidity than a emblematic supercar, and nan 112-kWh lithium-ion NMC artillery battalion (of which 106 kWh is usable) is portion of nan car's structure. Polestar says nan 5 is made from 13% recycled aluminum, and 83% of nan aluminum is from smelters that usage renewable electricity, which "substantially lowers" its CO2e footprint.

Its four-piston Brembo beforehand brake calipers are shared pinch nan Polestar 3, but nan 5 has 15.7-inch two-piece alloy-belled discs that prevention 26 pounds versus nan 3. The steering rack is placed up of nan beforehand axle for amended handling, and nan 5 has double-wishbone beforehand suspension, pinch nan guidelines exemplary utilizing soul rebound coil springs and BWI passive dampers while nan Performance trim gets BWI MagneRide adaptive dampers that publication nan roadworthy up to 1,000 times per 2nd and respond wrong 3 milliseconds. Wheels from 20 to 22 inches successful size are available, pinch caller Michelin tires developed conscionable for nan 5. 

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None of that worldly would really matter if nan Polestar 5's specs sucked, and luckily they don't. At motorboat location will beryllium 2 models, nan Dual Motor and nan Performance, some of which person a caller rear centrifugal that was developed in-house by Polestar. The 5 Dual Motor has 748 horsepower and 599 pound-feet of torque, putting it betwixt the Taycan GTS and Taycan Turbo successful position of power, but its 0-to-60-mph clip of 3.8 seconds is simply a fewer tenths disconnected nan 536-hp Taycan 4S. Stepping up to nan Polestar 5 Performance gets you 884 hp and 749 lb-ft (85 lb-ft much than Polestar primitively estimated) and a 0-to-60 clip of 3.1 seconds, matching nan Taycan GTS' time. Both models person a 155-mph apical speed.

There are nary U.S. scope estimates yet, but Polestar says nan 5 Dual Motor has a 416-mile scope connected nan WLTP rhythm while nan Performance will do 351 miles, truthful expect nan Dual Motor to beryllium rated astatine astir 375 miles and nan Performance to beryllium person to 300 erstwhile nan EPA gets ahold of them. The 5's 800-volt electrical architecture tin judge up to 350 kW connected a DC fast-charger, which tin return if from 10% to 80% complaint successful 22 minutes.

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Even though we've spent nan past 5 years seeing it, I deliberation nan Polestar 5's creation is still awesome and fresh. Polestar says nan PPA level and beforehand suspension setup meant designers could springiness it a ace debased hood and very small abstraction betwixt nan apical of nan wheels and nan hood line, wherever moreover different sporty EVs still person taller noses, and nan measurement that crease runs on nan fender separator is wonderful. The pronounced hips, rectangular little doorway surfacing and large wheels springiness it an fantabulous stance. Its floor plan is genuinely excellent, and astatine 56 inches gangly nan 5 is nan aforesaid tallness arsenic a Porsche Panamera, but it doesn't look it. Its 0.24 resistance coefficient is rather good, too. There's immoderate cool details, for illustration nan charging parameter successful nan C-pillar and nan aerial vents hidden successful nan corners of nan taillights. 

As pinch nan Precept and the already successful accumulation Polestar 4 crossover, nan 5 doesn't person a rear window, alternatively utilizing an precocious rear camera system. Without rear solid Polestar is capable to push nan rear header building down nan rear occupants, allowing for an perfectly monolithic panoramic solid tile — it's much than 6 feet agelong and 4 feet wide. 

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What we hadn't really seen yet is nan Polestar 5's interior. The 9-inch integer gauge cluster (which is mounted straight to nan steering file truthful it's ever visible) and 14.5-inch cardinal touchscreen are nan aforesaid arsenic successful nan Polestar 3, pinch nan aforesaid Android Automotive–based operating system. The wide creation is emblematic Polestar, but pinch a much high-end quality than nan 3 and a caller floating halfway console design.

The beforehand seats were developed pinch Recaro, and Polestar says nan driving position is deliberately reclined pinch a debased hip-point. The reclinable rear seats are shaped for illustration nan fronts, and nan cardinal armrest houses ambiance and spot controls. Polestar calls nan car a "4+1," arsenic raising that armrest opens up room for nan 5th halfway spot that's placed successful a staggered configuration truthful each rear-seat passengers still person enarthrosis space, and a "foot garage" cutout successful nan artillery gives rear occupants much legroom and a much earthy seating position. Ambient lighting surrounds nan cabin, coming to an extremity constituent successful a soundbar placed down nan rear passengers' heads. There's 12.9 cubic feet of cargo abstraction successful nan trunk, and an further 2.2 cubic feet successful nan frunk.

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Every Polestar 5 has 12 ultrasonic sensors, 11 cameras, 1 mid-range radar and a driver-monitoring camera inside; nan SmartZone sheet successful nan chemoreceptor houses each of nan forward-facing stuff. There are 8 airbags, and interior radar sensors look astatine nan "number, position and type of occupants" to optimize nan information systems successful lawsuit of an accident. A 10-speaker sound strategy is standard, but you're really gonna want nan 21-speaker Bowers & Wilkins strategy that has 1,680 watts of powerfulness and "tweeter-on-top" tech, apparently made moreover amended by nan 5's progressive sound cancellation inside. If you spell for nan optional Bridge of Weir Nappa leather, ventilation and massage functions are added to nan seats.

Sustainability continues to beryllium a main constituent of attraction for Polestar, particularly erstwhile it comes to nan 5's interior. That Bridge of Weir leather is an "animal use secured, chrome free, earthy by-product of nan nutrient industry," which should make you consciousness amended astir picking it complete nan modular MicroTech upholstery. Like connected different Polestars nan 5 has Econyl carpets made from sportfishing nets and a recycled PET headliner, but there's immoderate caller worldly present too:

Natural fibre materials are utilized passim nan interior, showcased by the Polestar signature weave developed pinch BCompTM successful nan beforehand seatbacks. Completed pinch ampliTexTM for added strength, this bio-based alternative to carbon-fiber, made from flax, is up to 40% lighter than integrative and uses 50% little fossil fuel-based materials. Lower sections of nan doors, made with NFPP powered by BComp's powerRibTM solution, showcase the natural building of nan bio-based material. This tin besides beryllium seen successful nan soul lining of nan rear luggage abstraction while nan beforehand luggage abstraction uses AutoNeum's UltraSilent worldly redeeming 60% (approximately 11 pounds) weight compared to accepted integrative and forms portion of a mono worldly strategy for easier recycling astatine extremity of life.

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The institution has yet to opportunity really overmuch nan Polestar 5 will costs erstwhile it goes connected waste successful U.S., but it decidedly won't beryllium inexpensive — expect a starting value of astir $100,000, though location should yet beryllium a cheaper rear-wheel-drive version. We don't cognize precisely erstwhile nan 5 will scope nan U.S., either, pinch Polestar conscionable saying its readiness "will beryllium announced astatine a later date." Blame it being built successful China for that.

Polestar has been undergoing a batch of increasing paints lately, and contempt being Geely-owned, the marque is astir dormant successful China. While an costly capacity sedan specified arsenic this apt isn't going to move nan needle much, that isn't nan constituent of a flagship anyway. The Polestar 5 is meant to showcase nan pinnacle of Polestar's creation and exertion — astatine slightest until the 6 roadster based connected nan aforesaid level comes retired — and preview what we tin expect from early mainstream models for illustration the 7. Really, nan Polestar 5 is each astir making nan marque moreover much desirable, and moreover if conscionable looking astatine nan car from a creation standpoint, I deliberation it nailed nan brief.