Limited-edition Polestar electric supercar likely

BMW M, Porsche and Maserati are all on notice as disruptive Swedish electric performance car brand Polestar rolls up it sleeves in readiness for a slug-fest.

The Chinese-owned, Gothenburg-based EV-maker is acutely aware that a once-in-a-generation supercar – perhaps one that looks like this unofficial render – would be the ultimate flagbearer for the brand, sending a potent message to customers and competitors alike.

Polestar flaunted its hard-core Synergy super sports car concept in 2023 and while that vehicle is too extreme to make it into production, a low-volume limited-edition scorcher appears to be well and truly on the agenda.

“Can Synergy [concept] be put into production? No. There's no way a car that low, that wide and that crazy could be practical. That’s what it comes down to,” Polestar’s global head of product communications Brent Ellis told carsales in Jokkmokk, Sweden.

“But could there be a very low-volume, crazy Polestar? Probably. Who knows? Let's see how the next few years go.

“We’ve got a lot of cars on the plate to roll out and that could inspire a few crazy ideas that could maybe come to life,” he said, refusing to rule out a ‘wild’ electric Polestar supercar that could materialise late this decade.

The European car-maker’s first (and so far only) global model to be sold in Australia was the mid-size Polestar 2 fastback, which has twice been runner-up in carsales Car of the Year. But it will be joined by the Polestar 3 large SUV in mid-2024.

When the Polestar 4 mid-size SUV arrives a few months later (around August), it’ll be the brand’s fastest vehicle to date – a genuine Tesla Model Y Performance rival.

Upping the ante further, the Polestar 5 grand tourer will arrive in 2025 and is already being touted as a bona-fide Porsche Taycan slayer, with dual-motor versions belting out more than 650kW/900Nm and blasting to 100km/h in under three seconds.

It’s also set to be a featherweight in EV terms, tipping the scales at under 2000kg thanks to a bespoke bonded aluminium frame.

The $300,000 Polestar 6 roadster is coming in 2026 and several Australian customers have already plonked down $37,000 deposits to be among the first to take delivery of the circa-650kW convertible.

So could 2027 be the year that Polestar flexes its high-tech muscles to the max?

“Thomas [Ingenlath, Polestar CEO] doesn’t operate in a box. So if we want to try something and come up with a wild idea, let’s see if that can work and, you know, maybe it does?” said Ellis.

As the Polestar 3, 4, 5 and 6 get set to join the Polestar 2 in Australian showrooms, there is one model conspicuously absent – a vehicle that would’ve probably been well received by performance car-loving Aussie motorists: the pioneering Polestar 1.

The hybrid coupe was an opening salvo from the brand that demonstrated that was willing and able to experiment with go-fast halo cars.

“Polestar 1 was a great example of that; that car was over-engineered to the nth degree because we could. It didn’t need a carbon-fibre body but it got one. It didn’t need this, but it got that, because we knew we wanted to try it and we’ve got the expertise to do it.

“To build a car like Polestar 1 with technology, materials and just wizardry to make that car drive and do what it could do, it was crazy but it was magic. And it’s really set the tone. Who knows, the future could be very colourful,” smiled Ellis.

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