"A car without a rear window? Then I might as well buy a van, right?" The initial test results for the Polestar 4 are not quite as blatant as this purely fictitious statement, but the lack of a rear view does bother the testers considerably. We took a look at the reports from Autocar and our US sister site and summarise the test results here. The Polestar 4 is difficult to categorise, says Vicky Parrott from Autocar.
The car lies somewhere between SUV and coupé, executive car and sports car. Polestar itself categorises the car as a mid-range coupé SUV, as Kevin Williams from InsideEVs USA writes. In any case, the body is 4.
84 metres long and 1.53 metres high. The shape and size lie roughly between the Polestar 2 (4.
61 m long and 1.48 m high) and the Polestar 3 (4.90 m long and 1.
61 m high). The car competes with the Porsche Macan, the upcoming Audi Q6 e-tron Sportback, the Tesla Model Y and the Genesis GV60. However, the body shape also has something in common with electric saloons such as the BMW i4.
In our opinion, the front looks quite acceptable Vicky doesn't like the look, but the design is eye-catching and polarising, which is certainly better than boring. She is presumably referring to the rear, as the front looks quite harmonious to us. Kevin says that the Polestar 4 doesn't look fantastic, but at least "quite okay".
The car is based on the Sustainable Experience Architecture from parent company Geely, on which the Volvo EX30 or the Smart #1 are also based, but no.
