Used Polestar cars
Polestar’s story dates back to 1996 when it was established to help Volvo win the Swedish Touring Car Championship. The firm found much success with racing Volvos and would go on to fettle Volvo production cars, both in terms of concept cars and production cars like the Volvo V60 Polestar.
This success led Volvo to buy Polestar in 2015 to be its own in-house performance division, creating ‘Polestar Engineered’ models to add additional performance and thrills to existing cars.
Fast-forward to 2017 and Volvo Cars – and parent Chinese company Geely Holding – announced that Polestar would become a standalone brand producing only electric cars. Oddly, its first car wasn’t an EV, but rather a ‘halo’ plug-in hybrid car called the Polestar. Sold between 2019 and 2022, just 1,500 cars were produced, with only a couple of examples said to have come to the UK.
Polestar’s breakthrough came with the ‘2’ in 2020 – an SUV-inspired fastback that brought a bold design, long electric range and upmarket interior. It proved popular and continues to do so. The Swedish firm’s next cars are the 3 and 4, which are two SUVs due in 2024. After this, the Polestar 5 will come in 2026 as a high-performance GT car and then the convertible Polestar 6 in 2026.
This car has passed an AA inspection
