Polestar’s latest prototype will only build anticipation for the company’s first sports car.
The Swedish automaker kicked off this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed by unveiling the new Concept BST. The one-off EV is a bulked-up version of the upcoming 6 that was designed with motorsports in mind.
Polestar really couldn’t have picked a better basis for its latest concept than the 6. The car, which was unveiled a couple of years ago and is itself based on the earlier 02 Roadster Concept, will be the marque’s first true sports car when it hits the market in 2026. It’s also, without a doubt, the company’s most striking vehicle.
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For the Concept BST, designers have taken the open-top 6’s sleek and athletic shape and added some serious muscle. The prototype, which features a removable roof, sits lower to the ground than the production-bound EV and is outfitted with an aggressive body kit that includes a larger front splitter and rear diffuser, flared wheel arches, and a giant wing in the back. It’s finished silver and wears a racing-style livery that includes a large number 6 on the hood as well as the letters “BST” along the side panels. Rounding things out is a set of 22-inch that hide Swedish gold brake callipers and are wrapped in performance tires.
As tends to be the case with Polestar prototypes, no technical details have been announced. But the 6, which shares an 800-volt architecture with the 5, will have a dual-motor, all-wheel-drive powertrain that pumps out 884 horses and be able to zip from zero to 60 mph in 3.2 seconds. Polestar has released two prior BST models based on the 2, the Edition 270 and 230, which were both more potent than the EV they’re based on so it wouldn’t be all that surprising if this one is too.
Unfortunately, the Concept BST is strictly a one-off at this point. Though the car completed the 1.2-mile hill climb at Goodwood, there are no plans to put it into production—yet. Polestar plans to build just 500 examples of the 6 at first, but should production be extended it would not be surprising to see a high-performance BST model at some point.
