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Polestar 2

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Writer:

Dan Prosser | Ti co-founder

Date:

11 August 2021

I rather liked the last Polestar 2 I drove, but it had more than 400bhp, fancy Öhlins dampers and a price tag the far side of £50,000, so perhaps that’s no surprise. But what of this most basic Polestar 2, which has only 221bhp, no trick suspension and an asking price the right side of 40 grand?

Its single electric motor drives the front axle and it has a smaller battery than the dual motor model, giving a WLTP range of 273 miles.

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