Polestar ups its game with a single-motor rear-drive electric Polestar 2.
For one thing it’s lighter, for another it’s cheaper, and for a third, it’s more fun to drive. It even gets 320 miles of EPA range from an 82-kWh battery.have more than 25% more power, the single permanent-magnet synchronous motor of the single-motor model is mounted in the rear, driving the rear wheels. That not only shifts weight rearward over the driven axle, but inherently makes it more fun behind the wheel. And fun is good.
You could argue that the trailing edge of the roof is shaped like it is in order to accommodate rear headroom, but a 5’10” colleague was scraping dome in the rear seats, and I’m only six-feet tall and I was touching my pompadour back there. But rear seats are for the kids, and you can line up three of them in the rear in comfort and full legality.Up front you’ll be comfy, with an array of infotainment and switchgear you’ll surely find to your liking. Compare the 11.
With the optional Performance Pack you can get adjustable shocks, but those require physically twisting the knob on top of each shock, which I didn’t try all day. Of course, the word “luxury” wasn’t on the four-word list Polestar head honcho Hembrough had spouted. I will say that by the end of the day it didn’t feel too firm at all. In fact, after about an hour I had quit my whining entirely.Now as to whether it felt sporty, well, it did not, at least on the fast, wide-open curves of our prescribed driving route. I asked if they had considered letting us drive on a racetrack and the Polestar personnel said they had, but then rejected the idea.
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