Polestar has filled all 500 build slots for its 6 LA Concept edition electric convertible in just one week, the company has revealed. The emissions-free roadster, a production version of the Polestar O2 concept car shown in March, made its debut at Monterey Car Week and is expected to arrive in dealerships in 2026.
But the prospect of a four-year wait to
get their hands on a road-ready version didn’t put buyers off. They snapped up
all of the available build slots, though Polestar did say that a small number
of slots within the 500 production run has been reserved for selected markets
that include Iceland, UAE, Kuwait, Singapore, New Zealand, China, and South
Korea.
The Polestar 6 is built around a version of the bonded aluminum chassis found in the company’s new 5 grand tourer and features 800-volt architecture and a dual-motor setup that delivers 872 hp and 900 Nm of torque to all four wheels. That’s sufficient to get the roadster from zero to 100 km/h in 3.2 seconds and on to a top speed of 250 km/h.
The 500 examples of the LA Concept edition
will feature the show car’s sky blue paintwork, 21-inch wheels, and pale-color
interior, but there is some good news for those who missed out on a build slot,
or would prefer a different interior and exterior color scheme. Polestar is
putting the 6 into full-scale production once the initial LA Concept editions
have been built and will be opening the order book for those cars later in
2022.
