{"id":2123913,"date":"2026-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2123913"},"modified":"2026-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:00:00","slug":"this-is-the-new-polestar-4-suv-that-looks-like-a-lifted-electric-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2123913","title":{"rendered":"This is the new Polestar 4 ‘SUV’\u2026 that looks like a lifted electric estate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Polestar\u2019s calling it an \u2018SUV\u2019 but to TopGear.com\u2019s hopeful eyes, it looks like a lifted estate. A handsome, well-proportioned lifted estate. Welcome to the Polestar 4<\/a>\u2019s sensible sibling: the, um, Polestar 4 SUV.<\/p>\n

Funny, because earlier this year Polestar said this new car would follow Swedish automotive tradition<\/a>, the country being \u201cfamous for its estate cars\u201d. So, we\u2019re going with that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s pretty much identical to the Polestar 4, only with a straighter, taller roofline, a squared-off rear end and full-length roof rails. Said roof rails free up an additional 100kg of stuff you can safely transport, too. Probably be able to get a fully-grown Stig up there, depending on what Stig\u2019s had for breakfast, of course.<\/p>\n

That additional height in the roof means rear passengers get an additional 2.5cm of headroom inside, while elsewhere there\u2019s a standard-fit glass roof (or the option of an electrochromic one that dims), a few more widget shortcuts on the central display, a Harman Kardon Premium stereo, and a conventional rear-view mirror. Yay!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You can opt for a digital one, though our experience in a Polestar 4 coupe<\/a> left us a bit cold on this. Peer through whichever mirror you opt for and you\u2026 won\u2019t spot 530-litres of boot space, unless you can visualise empty space like Adrian Newey<\/a>. But that\u2019s how much the 4 Not-An-SUV offers with the seats up.<\/p>\n

Seats down the space rises to 1,680-litres. Something like a Mercedes E-Class Estate<\/a> offers up 615\/1,830 litres, so it\u2019s not the most cavernous thing. Looks better, mind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Largely because barring the new rear-end treatment, the rest of the body and design and indeed the interior has been carried over wholesale from the already dandy Polestar 4 windowless coupe-thingy. Just 48 new parts were designed to turn it into this SUV-estate thingy, apparently.<\/p>\n

And speaking of Sir Stig, the white-suited one might be interested to learn about the 4 Not-An-SUV\u2019s stats: wearing the same SEA bones as the coupe, it features dual motors, AWD, 537bhp, 506lb ft, 0-62mph in just 3.9s, and a WLTP range of 373 miles.<\/p>\n

A lesser-powered rear-drive version is also on offer, featuring a much more sensible 268bhp, 253lb ft, 0-62mph in 7.3s and 391 miles (WLTP). Both get a 100kWh battery, DC charging up to 200kW and 22kW AC.<\/p>\n

You can spec a \u2018Performance Pack\u2019 too, which swaps out the passive shocks for active ZF ones, better Brembo brakes, and 22in wheels wrapped in Pirelli P Zeros.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elsewhere the spec includes vehicle-to-load (V2L), a \u2018Camping mode\u2019 (does what it says on the tin, really), and a keen focus on keeping the entire car\u2019s carbon footprint to a minimum. Funny then, that it also gets Google Gemini AI, because of course this resource intensive tech has to be jammed down everyone\u2019s throats at every juncture. And breathe.<\/p>\n

Prices? That\u2019ll be \u00a354,750 for the rear-drive car, and \u00a360,705 for the dual-motor version. Performance Pack cars start from \u00a368,250. Polestar\u2019s aiming for the first 4 \u2013 no, we just can\u2019t call it an SUV \u2013 estates<\/em> to reach customers before the year is out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polestar\u2019s calling it an \u2018SUV\u2019 but to TopGear.com\u2019s hopeful eyes, it looks like a lifted estate. A handsome, well-proportioned lifted estate. Welcome to the Polestar 4\u2019s sensible sibling: the, um, Polestar 4 SUV. Funny, because earlier this year Polestar said this new car would follow Swedish automotive tradition, the country being \u201cfamous for its estate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2123913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2123913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2123913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2123913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2123913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}