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Whats happening @ Polestar!?

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It's kinda funny how a little bit of bad marketing + the click-bate car blog media can do to your fan base.

Then again, maybe it's what polestar wants: to break hearts and then unveil something so astonishing a few weeks later.
 
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Stupid @ss marketing! I'm in the market for new vehicle for me and my wife. We've been considering P* for me and T8 XC90 for her. Erratic, senseless corporate changes with vague, veiled references to new directions just ain't going to bring me to the showroom floor. I am the customer base and I'm shifting to Raptor for me and Yukon Denali XL for her.

As always, Volvo marketing you are not living up to your engineers and assembly plants.
 
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I was messing around in photoshop today doing the same but looks like you figured out the mirroring before I did! Good catch

That seam above the taillight looks like a retractable rear spoiler. hmmmmm
 
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I dunno.. It looks like it could have influence from the 40.2 Concept Rear. What if we are actually looking at the new SPA platform S60 Polestar?

Alfa-Romeo did it with the Giulia, They introduced the race-spec Quadrifoglio first.
 
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The thing is that Polestar started Its whole marketing camapain with "The End" (the end of being only a sub-brand, that is). If they do this, they cannot show a Polestar-badged Volvo in the end. Also, rumor has it that they are going to show a 600hp sportscar.
 
#21 ·
They already confirmed in the Official thread that "The End" just referred to the old platform. It was a Marketing fail at its finest.

Hi mchart,

This is saying that it is the end of the current platform.

Kind regards,
Polestar
They also confirmed their plans for the future...

Hi Foxy,

We will continue our Polestar Engineered programme that include optimisations, parts and more. We will however not disclose details about our future plans just yet, our current focus is on the MY18 S/V60 Polestar.

Kind regards,
Polestar
 
#24 ·
Doubtful. Rumors are that's it's a coupe, but it's just a concept. Their plans are not fully clear, it's only clear that they are not stopping with the current stuff they do. It seems like they will add unique vehicles as well. This concept would seem to be a preview to that.
 
#27 ·
Slowly coming together. I added the new Polestar logo to the trunk, But this is looking very volvo to me! Pleasantly surprised they are keeping volvo design language.

Vehicle Automotive design Car Automotive exterior Bumper
 
#33 ·
With more pieces revealed, it is still just a rear view of a sedan or coupe car.
If it is a 60-series size, then it probably reveals quite a lot info similar to Volvo S60.
Now it looks more like rear of the S40, maybe bigger, and maybe just same size as S40?

Two more weeks to see...

But I don't like white color on a sporty/sports car.
 
#36 ·
It's the production version of the one shown in post number 14.

400 HP 2 ltr 4 cylinder with 150 HP E-Drive. Hybrid.

If not won't sell. :)
That coupe concept was beautiful but not very sporty. The Autocar pics that came out look a lot more like a Performance coupe...
 
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