If you are currently shopping replacement options for your Tesla and have a Polestar 3 on your short list, good news: Polestar is offering a $21,000 discount to Tesla owners on leftover 2025 model year Polestar 3s through April 30, dropping the price to $47,900 for the base single-motor car. Want all-wheel-drive? The combined discount pushes the dual-motor model down to $53,800, and the 517-horsepower Performance Pack trim down to $59,800. That’s a far more agreeable price than the original MSRP, and it comes from stacking incentives.
Right off the rip, everyone gets $18,000 if they buy a Polestar 3 outright or finance it for up to five years. From there, Tesla drivers get another $3,000 off, bringing the total to $21,000. If you’re a Costco member, you can stack an additional $1,250 if you’re an executive member, or $1,000 if you’re a regular member. In theory, on a base-spec model, that’s a 32 percent discount. On a brand new car.
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Granted, zero-to-60 mph in 7.5 seconds in the base single-motor model isn’t spectacular, and there are some features missing from the absolute base model you’ll probably want for nearly $50,000. Stuff like a heated steering wheel, which is bundled into a $5,500 option package that also includes a Bowers & Wilkins audio system, soft-close doors, a head up display, and other luxuries. You do still get a 360-degree camera system, three-zone climate control, and wireless Apple CarPlay as standard, but if you’re feature-driven, you’re probably looking at spending at least $53,400 for a single-motor car or $59,300 for a dual-motor Polestar 3.
On the one hand, that’s a lot more money than a new Tesla Model Y, which stickers for $46,630 including freight and order fee for a Premium rear-wheel-drive model and $50,630 fro a Premium AWD model. However, the stacked standard and Tesla conquest incentives on a Polestar 3 make it thousands of dollars less than an Audi Q6 e-tron or a Genesis Electrified GV70, which puts it in an appealing spot for luxury shoppers.
Most of the specs are pretty solid, too. We’re talking 350 miles of range on the single-motor model and 315 miles of range on the dual-motor model, 250 kW DC fast charging, standard air suspension on all-wheel-drive models, Tesla Supercharger network access, and one of the best optional sound systems in the segment. The Polestar 3 also drives really well, with a well-sorted ride and confident handling. Really, the big downsides here are a small servicing network and extra cost over a retail-brand EV like a Ford Mustang Mach-E or Hyundai Ioniq 5. Putting nearly an entire Hyundai Venue’s worth of discounts on the hood of this nice-but-pricey crossover makes it far more tempting, even if you need to own a Tesla to qualify for maximum conquest cash.
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I wanted to like Polestar, but having said that: how much is the version with a full set of window switches?
so it’s selling that well, huh?
Prices Poleaxed!
47k Dollars. Come on. Check the EU prices for lowest spec Polestar 3. It’s crazy.
to make it easier for my american friends:
Lowest spec Polestar 3 starts at 79k Euros, which is 92k US Dollars at the moment.
And no, there is no reasonable answer to why this is this way. I guess they simply are not interested in too high sales numbers. this is so far off from anything the average European could afford.
As a Volvo owner, if you buy a Polestar, you’re fucking dumb. These are frustrating cars that barely work.
So just like a Volvo?
And yes, I own 2 Volvos.
Yeah that’s what I mean haha
My Polestar 2’s been fine so far, but I bought it relatively recently. Infotainment system is a tad sluggish, but definitely not the worst I’ve used.
I’ve definitely heard the software on the Polestar 3 has been a total mess, but that it’s started to finally get decent lately.
They are late to party on that for sure. They should have done deals last year when people wanted to trade their $10k model 3s for a polestar. That has to be the reason they are offering $3k to tesla owners. I don’t know why you would pay $48k for a 25 polestar 3 when you can get a 26 bz plus that will do almost the same range for about $34k. Both will probably be worth about $10k in 3 or 4 years anyway.
F that.
I’m having a really hard time understanding why I would buy one of these over the cheaper competition. Maybe the interior materials are nicer? The interior design certainly isn’t.
I was thinking hey that’s not a bad car for 45k. Until I saw the interior. Enough with the tacked on iPads. Atleast put a hood over them to combat glare. And a place to brace your finger/hand when trying to hit a location on the screen.
I don’t think glare has ever been a problem on ay touch screen I have used in a car. This is on multiple VWs, Hyundais, Cadillac, Jeep, Dodge, Buick over the last decade plus of larger screens in care, and my current Tesla. No glare issues and no, none of them have ever broken despite internet fears over such a thing. Just irrational fears of people afraid to move forward with progress and technology.
I guess I can’t argue with you about your experience with glare.
I know the Prius I rented recently suffered from it for 4 hours of an 8 hour trip. A cowl would have solved the issue for most of that time.
I had a windshield replacement tech drop the mirror assembly on one of these tacked on iPads recently and besides the hassle of going through their insurance to have it replaced. I was without radio heating and cooling for six weeks. If I would have had to replace the screen myself it would have cost $1700 half of that was two hours of vin coding because the replacement didn’t “take” the first time. Again a cowl would have likely prevented the damage.
A place to brace your hand is just good design in a vehicle subject to suspension movements.
I will concede that I would prefer new technology not make the vehicle ergonomically worse than previous generations.
The cowl keeps it from cooking in the sun. I have seen them overheat from sunlight.
You obviously do not live in the desert. You spend long enough in the sun without a sunshade and say goodbye to the electronics. Also making everything a touch screen is not progress, it’s regression. Fuck off with that bad take.
Aside: You know what I want in a car door? One that won’t swing wildly open and hit the car next to me. I’d like it to close as quickly as I can can close it manually.
And, if it is a tight fit, I want to be able to climb out the window, and then be able to close the window from the outside.
How often are you climbing out Nascar style?
I’m not, because I can’t close the window from the outside.
OK: once I tried to drive through a deep puddle near my apartment. Car stalled in the middle of it. If I opened the car door, a ton of water would flood in. So, I climbed out the window, tried to push the car, but too much water resistance.
Finally a large truck came by and pushed the car from behind into a dry spot (I climbed back in to steer.) Had to wait a few days before it could start again.
I can close the windows (and convertible top for that matter) from the keyfob of my e9x/e8x BMWs – and open them too. If this is a real concern, you might want to get one of those. I suggest the convertible, much, much easier to get in and out with the doors shut.
Might want to avoid those puddles of unknown depth.
It’s one of Paul Simon’s 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover:
“Just climb out the DLO, Joe…”
Meh. That’s really the only response to the Polestar 3 and this offer I can manage.
Tempting, as our Model 3 is approaching 120k miles, but that’s just still so damn expensive.
Our trade value is like $10k right now.
When my Polestar 2 lease was up for renewal, I was already decided that I didnt want to continue with Polestar and all their small glitches, mostly software related. The Polestar 3 was even more frustrating to use based on how everything relied more on the screen but also the steering wheel buttons changed based on the menu you were in. Basically the learning curve was bigger than the P2.
A lot of people complain about Mazda controls but this is bad, zero common sense on how the cabin was designed.
That kind of nonsense happens all the time in the computer world and it is sad to see it happening in cars now.
Did you have the Google based system, or the old one? The Google one still has its moments, but overall has been very stable and easy to use.
Is the software still garbage? Tesla’s build quality may be hit or miss but the software just works.
P3 owner here. It was iffy before but it’s pretty darn solid now.
It drives so damn well so I’m willing to overlook the glitches.
Only downside is that I just changed from a Pixel 7XL to a Oneplus 15, and the digital key doesn’t work with the latter. Using a keycard is so 20th Century.
You’re not originally from Toronto proper, are you.
Believe it or not, there’s dozens of us in Ontario that were born and raised outside of Toronto.
Isn’t it just cottages in Northern Ontario (read: north of Newmarket) or the true North (read: beyond Barrie)
Nah. Pretty sure north of Highway 7 is all igloo and polar bears.
According to my mother, when she moved to North York in the early 90’s.
So… Markham?
Believe it or not, East of Toronto is not just Quebec, but MORE Ontario!
Oh I know. I much prefer the Thousand Island crossing over Niagara Falls whenever I visit family in… you guessed it… Toronto.
The Thousand Islands are just awesome. I had the fortune of being invited out by older family members on their 35ft boat to spend a day cruising around that area. Boldt Castle is super cool.
It looks like the 9-month gestation of a Mach-E and a Blazer EV that got tangled up at a house party.
Yeah. From the rear it looks very much like Prologue/Blazer EV…which I would definitely consider in place of this at nearly $5k price drop.
Right off the rip, everyone gets $18,000 if they buy a Polestar 3 outright or finance it for up to five years. From there, Tesla drivers get another $3,000 off, bringing the total to $21,000.
So basically, the headline should be A Polestar 3 now costs what it shouldve all along since apparently owning a Tesla has little to do with anything at all.
Also, this just seems like another case of aspirational pricing where no one was going to pay MSRP for a Polestar 3. If everyone pays less, a discount it ain’t.
But then they couldn’t get a click-bait Tesla mention in there.
“When everyone gets a discount, no one does.”
I think that is a paraphrase from “The Incredibles.”
I live under a metaphorical rock so I have no idea what The Incredibles is. I think it might be a movie?
It is!
I just like the quote, and use it for various “if everyone … then no one…” uses.
Found David’s burner account. 😉
A few years ago I think DT and I would have been comparably clueless about popular culture, at least assuming his cluelessness wasn’t exaggerated for entertainment value.
Now that he has a wife and kid I suspect he is far more knowledgeable than he was – I’m fairly confident I would win a pop culture unawareness competition at this point.
Sorry, can’t. It’s hideous.