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What's the difference between a Polestar and an 'actual Volvo'? Just the badge on front? What's that matter? I think Polestar used to be literally a trim level, so they can't be that different.

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Polestar makes two cars: a very limited production number hybrid and a weird-looking/ugly electric 5-door that starts at £46k.

Volvo makes two estates (starting at £35k), tree SUVs (starting at £25k) and two saloons (starting at £40k).

It's the same company. Polestar is entirely owned by Volvo. Many of the components are the same. It's just a different brand and badge that's applied to some models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polestar

> Polestar is a Swedish automotive brand owned by Volvo Cars

You know who owns Porsche and Bentley, right?

There's zero overlap when it comes to Polestar models and Volvo models. The Polestar 2 just shares the platform with Volvo's SUV.

Are you possibly confusing Volkswagen Group and Volkswagen? For example Volkswagen don't own Bentley, if that's what you're thinking. Volkswagen and Bentley are both owned by Volkswagen Group. Volvo does simply own Polestar.

Polestar builds tunes for regular Volvos and 2 cars. The polestar 1 is a plug in hybrid coupe that costs about 200k and the polestar 2 is a model 3 competitor that is rather new.

polestar is it's own performance group associated with volvo. they are extending out the base stuff by a lot, but fundamentally are rebuilding everything. checkout the polestar one to see what's up. imagine polestar is the same as dinnan for bmw, a close partner, but rebuilds the entire drivetrain

I don't think they're 'associated' with or a 'close partner' of Volvo... I think they're just Volvo, entirely owned. It's just a marketing thing. It's still Volvo.

interestingly, polestar is half owned by volvo and half owned by geely, volvos parent company. polestar was an independent company until 2015. [0]

0: http://zgh.com/our-brands/polestar/?lang=en

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