But I think the figure was just about right. This car is a very specific consumer choice. Fingerprints You really have to fit.
For example, color. I am happy to know about the latest science on color preferences and perceptions. However, based on my observations lifetime of the car, a statistically insignificant number of people like this color. Around 40, I would say.
But wait, is not that the French Racing Blue, one of the glorious colors of international motor sport, livery of prewar Bugattis and Talbot-Lagos? It is true that the signature color Polestar division is right on top of Bleu de France on the Pantone chart. Volvo calls the color trademark "Blue Rebel."
But it is one thing to see this color car on the grid of Monaco in 1937 and another to have one, say, Houston. In the average parking deck, from hundreds of feet, which actually emits blue Polestar. Does anyone cooling nuclear fuel rods there? Does it show Hyperborean, infringement on The Wall? Why so blue?
Polestar is a partner of motor sport and performance brand of the Swedish company, according to the propaganda. Special edition cars were knocked together on the assembly line at the right side of a regular sedan and wagon, S and V, is in Torslanda.
There is no danger of getting mixed section. All Polestar sedan is the same color of tranquility-blue test; some of the 80 carts that will be built will be immersed in black sapphire.
I will now lay out how Polestar edition better and badder than the standard-issue sedan S60, because they have to, given the difference in price is five points. However, my set, it's all about the paint job.
Inline-six has been breathed on by software coincidence, so that makes 345-hp, 40 hp bump over the S60 T6 R-Design. If not, it's a six-speed torque-converter automatic-equipped at no manual transmission is available-and downstream familiar Haldex all-wheel drive with an electronically controlled clutch-based differential. Polestar engineers imbued with Haldex rear torque bias, which means more engine power can be pushed to the rear wheels under acceleration.
However, we are still talking about the transverse-engine, front-drive architecture especially with more than 60% of heavy vehicles over the front wheels. S60 Polestar maintain stable under the helm of character, just at a higher level of grip and tranquility.
The suspension has been completely hack-stiffer springs and bushings, as well as manually adjustable Ohlins dampers front with a blowoff valve to help recover from the high-speed events sooner. Not to mention the six-pot Brembo front brakes and Michelin Pilot Super Sport 245 / 35-20 which you can put on the coffin Ingmar Bergman and make tackles.
Out on the road S60 is a growling, swearing Viking teenager. Zero-60 mph acceleration in 4.7 seconds blow by creditable, said Volvo. Keep the boot down and the car will hit 120 mph in 16.6 seconds, after the Swedish police will confiscate your car, house fish and pickled herring collection.
Polestar offers what I consider to be classic Nordic turbo lag, with the come-on light acceleration at low rpm and then-wooshHING SKOONAVERrrrrr .... turbo begin making power and acceleration squeeze you into the seat. It's kind of fun, like a big, blue yo-yo with a car payment of $ 600 a month. But the power curve spiral Volvo does not obligate you to plan your overtaking a truck on a country road, leaving enough space for the turbos to spool completely before you graduate. You have to throw the yo-yo at the right time.
Which certainly Polestar will stand, make 369 pounds-feet between 2.800 to 4.750 rpm, and beat grated metal such as BMW with loose bolts on the exhaust. Keep turbo on boil, diving into a corner, running and claws out. HHUnnnngHHVARRRR! ... .It Not by any means my tires.
The weak link is the six-speed automatic. This is a good-enough gearbox -commanded with some lovely, pewter-like paddle shifters behind the steering wheel-but tend to do too much thinking, with a lot of latency and delay. Particularly negligent is the downshifting.
Polestar is excited to continue less choice of six-speed manual. What, do they fear it will depress demand of 40?
This only confirms the Polestar ambivalence about the sport in general. Indeed, all the go-fast parts chin splitter deeper than the standard car; the rictus of black mesh lower grille; type-spoiler and rear diffuser; assortment Polestar badge-further deepen the mystery. S60 Polestar emerged from the bin looking not much different from the standard car, the Scandinavian dignity fully intact, though wild, blue psychotically.
Great seats, nice stereo, heated seats and steering wheel, electric blue thread in Nubuck upholstery bending, indirect lighting and ambient blue like ice calving.
Very good. All though it is, what you are looking at is $ 11,600 paint job for S60 T6 AWD R-Design Platinum, so you can join the patrol Smurf.
But it smoothly. I want to challenge you with the idea that, for 40 people, Polestar will be worth every penny. This is not a car, it is a manifesto-color cognitive, personal colored thesis, hue destiny. Maybe it was the memory of past-life, or a favorite shirt or color cataracts beloved dog. Regardless, these 40 people love them some blue.
For the rest of us, cracks in cosmology Polestar is this: If you want the car's performance to sleep, why you are going to paint it the color that could wake the dead?
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