Polestar 1 CRASHES like a Volvo should

Volvo has a reputation fro delivering the safest cars on the road, and that extends to the new Polestar 1 as Volvo shows in a new crash test video.

We all know Volvos are some of the safest cars on the road, and they are aiming to have no one killed or seriously injured in their cars (bar a missile strike) by 2020. 

But Volvo is no longer just Volvo, and even if you exclude Lynk & Co from the equation, that still leaves Volvo’s new Performance Polestar brand needing to keep up standards.

The first car from Polestar is the lovely Polestar 1, effectively styled as an S90 Coupe but with enormous engineering, structure, materials and powertrain changes, so with the Polestar 1 heading for production (eventually), Volvo need to make sure it crashes like a Volvo.

It’s too early for NCAP testing for the Polestar 1 just yet, but Volvo’s own safety boffins have been busy smashing the Polestar 1 in to immovable objects, and the results look to be very much to Volvo standards.

In the front impact test (above and in the video below) you can see the impact ripples barely make it in to the cabin area, and the steel core structure under the carbon fibre panels survived without misalignment. 

Zef van der Putten, Polestar’s ‘Carbon Man’, said:

The outcome of this first crash test validates the decision to build the body of Polestar 1 in carbon fibre. It also confirms that carbon fibre supports the highest safety standards. This is an example of how Polestar spearheads the development of new technology in the Volvo Car Group.

If you’re happy to pay £135k for the Polestar 1, at least you can rest assured it’s at least as safe as a regular Volvo.

Polestar 1 Crash Video