. The Polestar 3, however, is arguably its most important car yet. The big bucks are still very much in SUVs, and if the Swedish-based, Chinese-owned company can build on the momentum of its first proper mass-produced EV , then its financial future will start to look a whole lot rosier. debuted all the way back in 2022 and, fortunately, it hasn’t lost any of its edge in production guise.
Tech isn’t the only area where the Polestar 3 packs a punch. The dual motor setup delivers a combined 517hp with the Performance Pack equipped, or 489hp without it, though the system can decouple the rear unit to eke out more range. With both motors working in tandem, Polestar claims you’ll be able to hit 62mph from a standstill in 4.7 seconds , which is enough to keep pace with the BMW iX and leave thein its dust.
Just as impressive is the damping. The SUV pairs ZF adaptive dampers with two-chamber, self-levelling air suspension, which utilises an array of cameras and sensors dotted all over the car to scan the road surface and tweak the ride parameters every two milliseconds. Interestingly, the glitzy adjustable Ohlins dampers that characterised the Performance Pack-equipped Polestar 2 were ditched on the 3, apparently to the frustration of the firm’s affable chassis chief Joakim Rydholm.
The only frustration here - and it's a familiar one - is that all of these settings are buried in a sub-menu that takes a distracting amount of digging to get to. Granted, there’s a shortcut on the home screen but it's small and difficult to access while driving.