SINGAPORE – Polestar, the Swedish electrical automobile model, officially opened its new showroom right here immediately.
Dubbed the Polestar Singapore Space (‘house’ is what the model phrases its showrooms), it is the primary showroom for Polestar in Southeast Asia, and one of many first in Asia-Pacific.
Built by Polestar’s official supplier in Singapore, Wearnes Automotive, the brand new showroom has 2,260sqft of flooring house, and value greater than 1,000,000 {dollars} to make.
If you wish to go to the Polestar Space, it’s on 45 Leng Kee Road, nestled in Wearnes Automotive’s facility close to the nook of Leng Kee and Alexandra. It’s open from 8.30am to 7pm each day, aside from Sundays when it opens from 10am to 7pm.But it’s not such as you’ll want a lot assist discovering it together with your eyes: The showroom is unmissable because it’s a nook unit, and likewise clad completely in eye-catching white. Polestar’s four-pointed star adorns the 2 faces of the constructing.
As the high-performance/electrical model that’s advanced from Volvo, Polestar inherits Scandinavian minimalism, and that’s on very apparent show at its showroom. Get previous the stark white exterior and also you’ll enter what is most likely essentially the most minimalist automotive showroom in all of Singapore.
Polestar’s intention right here is to offer prospects a “sense of tranquillity, with no large slogans or logos, mushy lighting, and plenty of house” a model consultant stated on the showroom’s opening occasion.
Various elements from the Polestar automobiles are on show — like an artwork gallery, claims Polestar — whereas potential prospects can use a big format desk to the touch and really feel trim and paint swatches, inside samples, whereas additionally utilizing a digital automobile customiser.
Abroad, Polestar takes this ethos to the max — there aren’t any gross sales consultants, and “no fee, no negotiation, and no strain”, with solely product consultants available to advise prospects. However this wouldn’t work in a spot like Singapore the place shopping for a automobile is a Byzantine, pressure-filled course of, so right here the product knowledgeable and gross sales advisor roles are mixed.
As talked about, the Singapore premises mark the model’s first bodily house in Southeast Asia, and it’s additionally one of many first within the Asia-Pacific area — outdoors of China, solely South Korea and Australia at the moment have Polestar showrooms.
For now, Polestar’s lineup consists of the fastback sedan, the Polestar 2, which we examined earlier this 12 months. Read extra concerning the automobile’s debut in Singapore right here to seek out out which variants there are on sale. Prices have been revealed for the entry-level Standard Range Single Motor mannequin — $211,000 with COE. Compare that to the Long Range Single Motor at $227,000 with COE, and Long Range Dual Motor at $253,000 with COE.
Polestar’s subsequent mannequin would be the Polestar 3, a midsized SUV that would rival the likes of the Audi E-Tron, BMW iX3, and Mercedes-EQ EQC.
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This article was first revealed in CarBuyer.
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