Taking the Polestar 1 hybrid on a 600-mile road trip from Germany to France and the UK.
I’m standing in the derelict pitlane of the Reims-Gueux circuit, early one morning on a return drive to the UK from the IAA motor show, this year in Munich, Germany for the first time. It might not be a US coast-to-coast, or a road trip across Australia, but for us Europeans it’s a decent trek.
Munich city centre quickly navigated, the 1’s hybrid mode using only the battery its three electric motors, we hit the Autobahn and open the taps. It’s busier today than on the Sunday run over from the UK, so even when the national speed limit signs appear , opportunities to stretch the Polestar’s legs are few and far between.
A few more hours pass and we call in for a fuel stop. Not because the 1 necessarily needs a drink – the trip computer reckons we’ll manage Munich to Reims on a single tank – but because legs need to be stretched and eyes rested.And what a sight for sore eyes the Polestar 1 is. Muscular but not steroidically so, the 1 is a wonderfully handsome thing. Tense and poised, with obvious strength and bags full of Scandinavian cool, especially in the ‘Snow’ white of the car we’re driving.
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