Polestar has teased an onslaught of recent electrical automobiles (EVs), together with a new-generation Polestar 2 and a extra sensible model of its greatest vendor, the Tesla Mannequin Y-rivalling Polestar 4.
The Scandinavian auto model is asking this the “largest mannequin offensive in its historical past”, with 4 new fashions launching in three years. Polestar says it’s focusing on the guts of the market, “the place buyer demand and revenue swimming pools are excessive”.
Following the launch of the brand new Polestar 5 grand tourer, due in Australia halfway via 2026 and priced from $171,100 earlier than on-roads, the Geely-owned EV model says it would begin European deliveries of “a brand new variant” of the Polestar 4 within the fourth quarter of 2026.
This will probably be adopted by a brand new era of the long-running Polestar 2 liftback in 2027, and its smallest SUV but, the Polestar 7, in 2028.
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Polestar says the brand new Polestar 4 variant will attraction to a “wider buyer base by providing extra versatility”, and that it’ll mix “the house of an property and the flexibility of an SUV”, channelling Sweden’s wagon-making heritage.
A teaser picture exhibits what seems to be a rear window and a extra upright tailgate.
Spy pictures printed on Weibo and shared on Reddit give us a greater view of the as-yet-unnamed Polestar 4 variant, which has a extra typical SUV silhouette than the prevailing, extra fastback-style mid-size SUV.
It additionally, crucially, has a rear window – in contrast to the prevailing Polestar 4, which has sheetmetal the place a window would ordinarily be, forcing drivers to depend on cameras and the outside mirrors to see out the again.
Aside from the extra upright rear and its window, the brand new Polestar 4 variant in any other case appears to be like similar to its coupe-style SUV sibling, with an analogous belt line and full-width rear gentle bar.
The following Polestar 2 has been previewed via frosted glass, however we are able to nonetheless see it’s low and smooth just like the Polestar 5. That means it received’t be as high-riding as the present car.
It additionally wears a model of the model’s signature split-level LED daytime operating lights, however for now there’s little else that we are able to glean.
The present Tesla Mannequin 3-rivalling Polestar 2 entered manufacturing in 2020, making it the model’s oldest mannequin nonetheless on sale.
The most recent teaser of the Polestar 7 doesn’t reveal any extra of the all-new small SUV, which has beforehand been confirmed for manufacturing at a brand new Volvo Vehicles manufacturing unit in Slovakia. It’ll share a lot with Volvo in addition to a manufacturing line, with Polestar to borrow key elements like the electrical motors from its sister model.
Polestar says it expects to develop its world gross sales volumes by low double-digits this yr, and broaden its retail community by 30 per cent.
The Porsche Taycan-rivalling Polestar 5 is unlikely to contribute considerably to its gross sales tallies, given its positioning as a grand tourer halo mannequin for the model – and the actual fact it received’t be offered in China or the US, the world’s two largest markets by gross sales volumes.
In contrast to different members of the Polestar lineup, it’ll function a brand-exclusive light-weight bonded aluminium platform.
There’s no phrase on the beforehand previewed Polestar 6 convertible, the launch of which was delayed final yr to after the Polestar 7’s in 2028.
Polestar will launch its full-year 2025 outcomes tonight, together with monetary steerage, however has already confirmed that final yr was its greatest yr but when it comes to gross sales – not particularly shocking given it solely launched its first mannequin in 2019, and not too long ago tripled the dimensions of its lineup.
It now provides the Polestar 2, the Polestar 4, and the Polestar 3 massive SUV. In Australia final yr, its gross sales had been up 38.5 per cent on 2024, when it commenced deliveries of the Polestar 3 and Polestar 4. Each automobiles, naturally, grew their gross sales in 2025, although the Polestar 2 slumped by 48.9 per cent.
Polestar outsold fellow Geely-owned model Zeekr, however its sister model is gaining on it quickly following the launch late in 2025 of the mid-size 7X electrical SUV.
The Chinese language-owned Swedish model has loads of different inside competitors from inside the Geely empire, with its Polestar 5 set to rival the Lotus Emeya, and the Polestar 7 to rival the Sensible #3.
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