The Polestar 1 EV Costs More Than A Mercedes-AMG S 63 Coupe
The Polestar 1 electric coupe will be priced from £135,500 in the UK, but as we already know, it’s left-hand drive only. That’s a bit more expensive than predicted.
Prices have been announced at the Beijing Motor Show, including a starting point of €155,000 in mainland Europe. The price point puts it up against the likes of the £125,600 Mercedes-AMG S 63 Coupé and the V12-powered BMW M760Li xDrive, which will set you back £138,335 plus options.
Polestar would rather lease it to customers, though, through an all-in monthly payment that covers insurance, road tax where charged, maintenance and so on. It’s not going to be cheap, but details haven’t been released yet.
The two-door Polestar 1 musters a combined 592bhp from a 338bhp 2.0-litre petrol engine coupled to the front wheels, an integrated starter motor/generator that adds 39bhp and two electric motors at the rear that bundle another 215bhp into the equation. It can sprint to 60mph in less than four seconds.
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They need it to be expensive, that way in the future they can sell a cheaper model easily because the name will have established itself as expensive. Base model Mercedes cars fly off the shelf, bought by those who just want to associate themselves with the name.
I think there are two kinds of sports coupes. The hooning, tire shredding ones (M4,C36 Amg) and the more civilised ones (RS5,etc).If you compare this thing to an RS5 it just makes sense and with the electric punch it might be faster :) and faster is always good
Let’s all say this. Volvo, please bring back the S60R or V70R with an inline-5 cylinder please please please please. And also make it significantly cheaper than this hot hatch sounding Volvo (I think at most it’ll sound like a hot hatch.)
It is a 2.0l 4cyl
Sorry, but in my opinion, it’s not worth the money.
Could this be Volvo’s LFA moment?
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