The UK's 'world-class' talent is critical for the development of the Polestar 5 EV - we head to the firm's Mira base to find out why
SLR, while Swift had a long stint at Lotus and was an engineering director at blue-blooded Canadian automotive innovator Multimatic. They both share an ambition to instil within the 5 a feeling of “sports car heritage”.
An appealing simplicity, perhaps. Does anything already out there exhibit all that? The entry-level RWD Taycan gets close but lacks practicality; AMG and M cars froth with heft and complexity; Tesla products are accurate and rabidly quick but the handling never sparkles.“You have to be able to deliver second-row comfort, which is not something most sports car manufacturers pay much attention to,” says Allen, in summing up the extent of the challenge.
The team are not shoehorning one product onto a platform designed for something else. Because, although this architecture needs to be scalable enough to underpin future models ranging from a higher-riding seven-seat crossover to a production version of the O2 roadster concept, in essence it’s very nearly bespoke to the 5.
The suspension is passive and the team’s expertise has been focused on getting the rates, geometry and tyre characteristics matched up with the stiffness of the platform and just so for real-world duties – all the various journey types and road surfaces you would encounter. Done well, that equals purity.
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