{"id":84139,"date":"2021-11-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=84139"},"modified":"2021-11-23T07:54:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T07:54:27","slug":"drive-polestar-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/drive-polestar-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive: Polestar 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Yes, but” – when an answer starts like that, it usually has little to do with conviction. In our case, the question posed is: “Is the Polestar 1 a future collector’s car?” We would like to explain in more detail the path to the answer that begins with “Yes, but.” In doing so, however, we must begin by introducing the make and model in more detail. In 1996, Jan Nilsson founded his motorsport team Flash Engineering in Sweden. This was bought up by Christian Dahl in 2004 and renamed Polestar Racing a year later. In addition to racing cars, they developed performance enhancements and add-on parts for Volvo’s latest models, which led to them becoming a factory tuner and factory racing team in the WTCC. Eventually, Volvo bought the company outright. In the background, the Swedish car brand has already belonged to the Chinese Geely Group since 2010, which has some ambitions. The Polestar motorsport team was to become an independent car brand. The racing division now operates under the name Cyan Racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Limited to 1,500 units worldwide<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To promote Polestar as a car brand to the public, a concept car of the Polestar 1 was presented at the Shanghai Motor Show in October 2017. This took its basic design from the Volvo Concept Coup\u00e9 from 2013. The front and rear are the same as the Volvo S90, which has been on sale since 2016, but with an independently designed radiator grille. Between them, however, there are only two doors and a low roofline. From the outset, it was announced that the 1 would be the brand’s only model to receive a gasoline engine – in combination with three electric motors. All subsequent Polestar model series will be powered purely by electricity. The 1 was also positioned as a limited premium product in the luxury class. To this end, a limit of 1,500 units was set worldwide. It took another two years until the market launch. Despite a clearly Swedish design and company headquarters in Gothenburg, production was relocated to Chengdu in China.<\/p>\n\n\n

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