Polestar’s Concept BST Gives the Middle Finger to Practicality, Goes All-In on Speed and Style

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is well-known as an automotive spectacle where the world’s greatest cars charge up a sketchy driveway and manufacturers debut new models and wild concepts. Polestar is using it this year to show off its Concept BST convertible, and we’re digging what we see.

Details on Concept BST are a little thin on the ground, but we do know that it’s based on the forthcoming Polestar 6 roadster and is meant to show off the next level of performance for the Polestar brand (which itself started as a performance sub-brand for Volvo). The Chinese-Swedish company posits that BST could be the formula for sportier Polestar variants in the future.

In terms of the concept car itself, Polestar doesn’t tell us what the body is made from, so we’d expect aluminum or fiberglass or something similarly un-exotic. The overall shape has fairly classic sports convertible proportions aside from the wild-ass wing that juts out from the B-pillar and looks vaguely like the Ford Sierra Cosworth in a good way.

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The car’s front end gives Polestar 6 and Lotus Emeya energy, which isn’t a terrible thing (and not surprising considering the shared parentage). Concept BST also has a super cool vented hood and a motorsports-ish paint job that complements the car nicely, but it’s the wheels that leave us drooling. They are exquisite.

Polestar makes no mention of performance in its press release, and while we asked the company for more details there, we’re not holding our breath for answers. The upside of this is that it lets us engage in some wild-ass speculation, a favorite pastime for everyone.

The most powerful Polestar you can spec now is the Polestar 4, which has 544 horsepower. That’s not bad, but in EV land, it’s not especially impressive either. This would lead us to believe that the company is using the P10 motor and two-speed drivetrain from the Polestar 6 which makes up to 884 horsepower. Not bad, not bad.

Regardless of what it’s got under the skin, the Concept BST is rad and we’re very into what Polestar has been doing lately with design and technology, like distancing itself from once-parent company Volvo and targeting Porsche as its benchmark for more performance-based EVs in the future. It not only clarifies Polestar’s position in the market, but it should theoretically give us more fun EVs to drive and that’s always a plus.

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