despite a gulf in price, I think the Polestar 4 looks more special than the more expensive Polestar 3, the headlights are superb

The Polestar 4 is stunning, really liking the design team at Polestar

Great video! Btw, during the last month, I have been working with 3D visualizations and animations of the entire Polestar stand at Shanghai Auto Show (using moslty Blender but also Unreal Engine). My renderings and movie clips was used to plan and prepare the presentation of the Polestar 4 held by Thomas Ingenlath and Maximilian Missioni, for example to set up camera angles and try out how to use the big background screen. In the model I used, I added 15000 3D tulips and about 1500 3D spectators as well as 4 cars, and even animated versions of Thomas and Maximilian! :)

Vehicle to Load is the last feature what was missing for me at Polestar, it's maybe my next car.

I really love the Polestar line of design, minimalist and futuristic, not weird looking front and a serious and modern looking car overall. Finally they have fixed the interior as well and now it feels as pleasant as the exterior. Love it!

I like Elliots real world approach, I imagine the vast majority of us watching are in the market for an EV without bells and whistles. The family runabout, the commute car, or even, as in my case, an affordable entry level car.

Thanks for showing the boot. It makes me want it even more when it is practical sized. I wish more of the cars would be liftbacks

I definitely see the good parts of the 2 in the 4's design. That''s very skilfully done by the team.

I just did a 1700km roadtrip in a Polestar 2 68 kwh and oh my, it changed everything for me. I kinda already regret my last car purchase. But 100% a polestar will be my next just! The 4 is probably the one to go for!

Start with the price. $60,000 for the entry-level single motor version. Who knows how much for an all-wheel-drive version. Great in isolation but its value proposition quickly drops off in the face of competition in that price range

Great video, very informative and content not seen on some of the other channels. What is the line gap on the trunk lid? Is that where a back window panel would normally go? In case they ever decide to put a window in?

Looks incredible, love the fact that they have taken some design risk…

Wow! One of the most beautiful designs from the modern age of motoring. No mistaking this for a Polestar. Nothing comes close to looking like it. Can’t wait to see it in Oz. I’ll certainly consider this when it lands here. Well done Polestar.

Really like the exterior design, great proportions and stance, well done Polestar

More Shanghai motor show coverage please Elliott. The cars you see there probably matters the most as a it is a road map for the rest of the world to follow!

Great episode - love the creative graphics! 👏👏

Robert, I liked your channel when you were just bloody honest about cars. This channel is not asking hard questions and just turning into a glorified advert for companies. Set the bar higher.

Loving the PS4! The interior looks really good.

P4 looks very impressive. I like the no rear window design and the camera will probably give far better visibility than having one. Really like Polestar's push for sustainability across the car lifecycle and their 0 project.

The only question I have is on the switch between the internal and external camera on the rear view - I assume it's just a button on the bottom of the mirror and how does the interior view look? Got a sprog in the backseat that needs checking on occasionally!

Currently driving with a 2018 large MPV with excellent view allround. I can put my elbow on windows seal, comfortably. When I see the interior of cars like this, where the glass of the doors actually starts at basically the level of your ears, I find that a bit too claustrophobic. It might be safer in a heavy crash - although an airbag pops into place on side impact (in both cars) - but you can't ignore the fact that you loose vast amounts of visibility and awareness of things happening around your car. And the same for the back passengers: they are looking at interior trim, not a window. For kids sitting lower, its even worse, they can't see anything. You're forced to give them a screen to look at during trips. Instead of letting them look outside and have a conversation about the outside world. I'm sure it's also because of the way it looks, more dynamically. But I'm not a fan.

Did you check if the boot has a parcel shelf? I'm trying to work out if my dog will be able to breathe in the boot 😅

Hightops and baseball cap! I thought you were going to break into a 'breakdance' at any point! LOL.

I love the minimalist outlook on the design! Now they just need to minimize the price.

Look good. I hope you got a good look at the mg cyberster.

damm...its so beautiful! really like how they managed to enhance the Scandinavian simplicity

Love your work 👍

I will NEVER get on board with the lack of a rear windshield. The camera is great for when ur driving the view is always clear and isn't blocked by people in the back moving about. But when parkin if it can't see out the back window I cannot gauge where the limits of my car are, I always look back even if the cars I drive have rear cams. I used the rear cams to line up the parking, but actually look back while entering the space.

This is NOT a "coupe." A coupe has only 2 doors! This is a "sedan."

I LOVE their logo

This car was made public a couple of weeks ago and until you mentioned that display model had 22 inch wheels I had no idea what the scale of the vehicle was. A little tip for Polestar, maybe throw in a football or basketball in your marketing photos.

Polestar are definitely leading in design.

I like the idea of the rear view camera and I’m assuming it will have a recording facility in case it gets rear ended…

More Auto Shanghai 2023 coverage please!

Interesting no back window but then big trucks don't have rear windows or buses. What is the centre console like is it as big as the P2 which I find just too cocooned for my 6'4" frame and cannot figure out how Jack finds it as he owns one since he's slightly taller than I am?

Plolestar is moving to the right direction. Great looking car. I hope that comfort and driving/handling will be as good as the looks. P2 disappoted in these two areas.

Great looking ride!! 65K USD? That's too bad.

they keep lying about battery prices coming down, it is still very expensive to replce degraded battery of a used electric car because manuacturers are adding huge profits onto replacement car batteries too

You give a lot of credit to the work around sustainability... One can question whether 102 kWh battery, a cw-factor of 0,26 and thus a rather limited WLTP number is so very sustainable. Same goes for the P3. Actually worse with 0,29... Still I agree, these cars looks really great!

Very cool. Definitely noteworthy Model Y option to look at

While Germans went completely wrong direction with their designs (BMW and Merc specifically) I think Polestart just nails it. It is an extremely beautiful car both interior and exterior. The combination of different types of fabrics in the interior looks just so good, clean, minilamistic yet very high quality. If I was about to pay that amount of cash for EV, that would definitely Polestar. The only drawback - it's made in China. Keeping the price tag identical to the competitors that assemble their cars in Europe where labor and taxes are much higher, is a little bit unfair. You can do it better Polestart. Open factory in EU.

What kind of ground clearance does it have?

Thanks.Jim Bell (Australia)

Beware of the Polestar boot or trunk closing, there is no torque setting on the motor and boot/trunk lid shut on my finger last week, quite painful and luckily I had my Nephew there to open the boot or I would have been stranded with a finger in the boot!

Funny. Check the interior especially the seats of another Geely brand - Zeekr 001. They’re absolutely the same. Also the transparency variable glass roof.

Efficiency though? Have they improved it?

Looks great, though I'm not a fan of the rear window situation.

Looks good, but it looks like the frount is still cramped because of that huge middle island. Really my only complaint about polestar design is that they keep putting that huge thing in the way.

Looks like a gv60 with the window blacked out. Does it qualify as a van?

this car looks so good! I'm just concerned about that camera sticking out at the side in the front!!

It has a very similar shape to the GV60. I do see this competing with the upcoming Macan EV.

Does anyone know the name of the song that is playing throughout this video? It’s beautiful!

It looks nice. No sure about the rear window but everything else looks good. The Polestar logo needs to be a bit more visible. Maybe just lit up like many manufacturers are doing.

Looks astonishing.

I think the Polestar 4 looks incredible. But I'm still mourning the loss of the badass black grille on the Polestar 2. A tragic move.

Can you tell me if the back floor is completely flat like the website claims? Or if there's a tunnel. Images look like there's a bump in middle like Polestar 2. I want a flat floor to seat 5.

1:47 🔎102kWh / 400 kW. Less than 15 minutes range 😂😂

best presentation yet Elliot , guess your perfectly pumped LOL

So what happened to Polestar 3? Didn’t think that was even available yet? And now we are on to 4?

Amazing! I need this in my garage

Have they made the centre console narrower? For the life of me I can't get my leg comfortable in the Polestar 2 as the console gets in the way

Polestar lineup is a little confusing to me. They seem to be in the identical segment. What are the differences between 3 and 4 besides the back of the cars?

Nice to see them finally not make a Tesla knock-off.

If I was ever to trade my Tesla Model 3 in, it would be for this car. Great intro by Elliot.

I'm sold about the lack of rear window. It really allows the boot to be huge while keeping an aerodynamic shape. The roof glass makes up for what would otherwise be a kind of claustrophobic rear sitting.

Oh yeah no the lack of back window is a deal breaker for me. I've tried to drive with the rear window camera things and I hate it. I would not be able to get used to it I don't think

I've driven the Polestar 3. I don't think it's a luxury car in my opinion after the test drive. I like the ID4 WAY more

Where does the front licence plate go? not much room to affix one, but that's an Australian market issue when it gets here. Definitely doesn't detract from the overall of this car. We just need the drive reviews to put the icing on the cake.

no back window = no thanks 😂

Excited, hot, and sweaty! Golly!

I need this after my i4 lease ends

This is the car to get, so sleek! It all depends on their pricing strategy now.

Such a BEAUTIFUL design. Mygosh

Polestar is a magic form dreams that became reality. ET is here!!🌹👌👍👏👏👏👏

I have driven the Taycan and all Polestar 2 variants. The Polestar 2 is a nice car. But for steering and chassis alone, it’ll be a looong way for Polestar to match Porsche quality in these fields.

Vehicle to live sounds dangerous 😂 I wish I had V2L on my EV though - it would make camping without an electric hookup a lot easier!

It looks very good, and I usually hate these, a real international effort, Swedish design, UK tech dev centre and Chinese engineering pulling it all together

Well done Polestar, Prefer this to the 3 actually, the way the rear looks as if they will have option of a window for markets that won't allow , kinda hope the UK version has a window, with standard rear view mirror, I have an e-tron 55 with virtual mirrors and yes for blindspots and safety features they are great but they just arent as good for vision as normal glass. That said Polestar take my money !!!

quite like the sustainability approach

Can you compare the polestar 4 and the Volvo EX30? They look so similar at a glance!

What is the song in the start of the video? I need that.

Where is it made? It's gorgeous

Great design, Thank you Elliot. Best report on this car yet. You an choose the ambient light based on different planets (Sun/Mercury/Venus/Earth/Mars/Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus/Neptune). The Polestar badge in the front has a light as well. Can't wait for your drive.

It looks hot!

The design is really really good

Not sure about the lack of rear window.

Owning a car with a camera based rear view mirror, I've gotta say its not great and it takes a second or two for your eyes to refocus on what is a screen rather than a mirror which at times is quite jarring. It sounds a great idea and relatively futuristic but you end up getting into the business of having to wipe the rear camera almost each time you drive during poor weather conditions. Which in the UK we often have. The Polestar 4 looks like a sweet spot to me and despite my comments above, the camera based rearview mirror would not necessarily put me off. Its a great looking motor and one Id seriously consider.

That thing looks great! Way better than what the BMW designers are making!

Utterly stunning😊

Looks good but 500 litres of boot space is nothing compared with a Skoda Superb hatchback at 625 litres / 1760 with the seats down...

Why is there no rear window? What is the purpose?

The steering wheels in the 3 and 4 look substantially better

Last picture from the side it looks like the electric 🐆 jaguar

Thanks a lot

Already Orderd my Polestar 4! Its time to go!

Minimalism in an EV would look more like an e-bike IMO. A Specialized Turbo Como SL would do the trick

Look, I know bugger all about flowers, but aren't those some kind of poppy, not tulips? Edit: No, nevermind - I do believe you're right, carry on!

Very nice!

still not dual cupholders?

Lovely looking car...... (500ltrs is not "HUGE".........it's what a decent sized boot should be)