BBC Top Gear Magazine

Polestar 2

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REPORT 3 £45,900 OTR/£58,900 as tested/£660pcm WHY IT’S HERE

Is it the thoughtful and better alternativ­e to a Tesla Model 3? DRIVER

Tom Ford

DON’T, FOR GOODNESS’ SAKE, DOWNLOAD THE POLESTAR SPACE

Warp arcade game if you have a Polestar Not even because it’s any good but because it’s stupid and addictive and hugely pointless And yet addictive And yet pointless In the way only crappy space games really are It’s also perhaps the worst possible use of the Googleinfu­sed multimedia and operating system in the PŠ whose breadth of ability is properly unlocked once you start downloadin­g some apps Vivaldi web browser is downloaded as are some of my favourite mapping applicatio­ns and the like And the voice control really works at least for my accent which is so bland as to be entirely unrecognis­able as anything faintly regional I’ve not quite committed to firing up the web browser yet mainly because it requires my personal informatio­n again and also offers the ability to boredomsho­p while rapid charging and my phone is bad enough on its own I’m also going slowly broke by using ŒŽ‘kW chargers but that’s another story entirely

So what’s been going on this month? Well charging out and about has been multitudin­ous and effective with a new high of ’’ kW max achieved at the ŒŽ‘kW chargers at Baldock services natch That’s not bad given the PŠ’s charge curve Of slightly more interest is the fact that at home my PŠ charges at a laggardly •mph at ’ŽA Which is some way off the ’Š–’Žmph I have been getting I assumed that it was something to do with my ancient charger but the Citroen eBerlingo that popped in last week was happily charging at ’Šmph twice the speed so we may need to look into that

In other news the PŠ and I are shortly off to Daventry to see a man about some winter tyres as well as getting hold of some ramp time to soften off the dampers hopefully creating the slightly squidgy less intense but powerful cruiser that I’m notsosecre­tly hankering after

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