Watch out Taycan! Polestar 5 super-sedan priced for Australia ahead of 2026 release date

Five-and-a-half of years after it used to be foreshadowed by the Precept concept, the Polestar 5 huge-sedan used to be printed overnight on the sidelines of the 2025 IAA Munich motor show veil – and it’s on the attain to Australia next year.

The fifth Polestar model is its most costly automobile yet, sitting both above the $116K-$154K Polestar 3 gigantic SUV (our reigning Luxury Vehicle of the 365 days), and alone on its have bespoke aluminium platform.

The slick sedan used to be described by senior executives because the truest model yet to Polestar’s pillars of excessive performance, sustainability and dapper originate.

Nonetheless Australians that see the sunshine pays for the privilege with the more life like of the two specifications from commence—a twin-motor AWD variant with 550kW/812Nm—priced at $171,100 plus on-road charges. Customer orders could maybe additionally be placed from this day.

That’s quite a bit of coin for a brand recent EV, but it’s all relative given the ‘most cost-efficient’ Porsche Taycan sedan, which utilises a 300kW single-motor rear-wheel force powertrain, is $10,100 more pricey with the identical 4S grade costing Aussies $222K before on-roads.

Measuring 5087mm in length (on a lengthy 3054mm wheelbase), 1425mm in top and 2062mm huge (at the side of mirrors), the Polestar 5 is a lengthy, low saloon automobile. It’s additionally a in point of fact heavy one, weighing in at 2500kg.

Polestar chief executive officer Michael Lohscheller openly invited comparisons between the ‘5’ and the Taycan. A virtue shared by the two huge-sedans is that both are per bespoke platforms, with the Polestar’s ultra-inflexible bonded chassis incorporating recycled aluminum.

“The Polestar 5 is our ticket on wheels,” acknowledged Lohscheller. “We’d like to ascertain it competes with the likes of Porsche. It is a long way a terribly crucial automobile for us.”

Now dubbed the Polestar Efficiency Architecture (PPA), the 5’s platform used to be place to be utilised practically actual now by the Polestar 6 convertible, but that halo model has been deferred as Polestar diverts resources to a noteworthy more life like compact SUV place to commence in 2028.

A excellent more great model of the Polestar 5, dubbed the Efficiency, charges $22,000 more but critically greater outputs (650kW/1015Nm) that nick the 0-100km/h time to about a.2 seconds (from 3.8sec). Both variants have a 250 km/h top lumber.

The Efficiency retains the conventional variant’s double wishbone suspension but swaps its twin-tube dampers for a semi-lively MagneRide setup with electromagnetic regulate. Wheel size is upgraded from 20s (on Michelin Pilot Sport EV tyres) to 21s for the Efficiency.

Polestar will rob into fable much less opulent variations of the ‘5’ at some point soon but for the foreseeable period after commence the single alternate recommendations would be the twin-motor variations, which use a SK Innovation 112kWh, 800-volt nickel manganese cobalt battery with 192 cells split across eight modules.

In either grade the powertrain is critically rear biased with the aft motor, a Polestar-developed PX2 eternal magnet synchronous unit, contributing up to 450kW/660Nm searching on specification. The much less great front motor is built by ZF.

Charging capacity is 350kW (DC) and 11kW (AC) whereas WLTP range is a solid 670km for the fashioned grade and 565km for the Efficiency, which has increased wheels. Brake discs measure 400mm on the front wheels.

Inner, the Polestar 5 utilises a 14.5-paddle centre show veil and nine-paddle digital instrument cluster with huge integration with the Google machine. Integrated connectivity takes care of over-the-air replace.

Boot home measures 365 litres supplemented by a 62-litre frunk.

Alternate recommendations embody huge-lush Bridge of Weir animal welfare leather in charcoal or zinc ($11,800-$13,000), Bowers & Wilkins with noise cancellation ($8000), matte paint ($10,000), and 21- to 22-paddle wheels ($3000-$7000).