[Meatball]

83k starting

More like $84,000 starting ($83,900).

 

[JRRF]

The only potential negative about the rear seats is that they pushed them back (good), but to maintain head room under the sloping rear roof line, they lowered the seats. Lowing the seats means your knees are up and there's minimal thigh support.

And unlike the P2 this is a skid design (certainly necessary for the huge battery), so the floor is higher as well.

 

[JRRF]

Makes it look bigger than it is I remember the days where dimensions of my 43" plasma were actually bigger than the 55" oled...It is the cheap visual trick, not fitting for the market segment it pretends to be in....

I think the bezels are also part of the necessary ruggedness required in an automotive environment.

 

[JRRF]

The only thing I don't like as much is de driver display, I prefer the more traditional sweeping dashboard with the driver display integrated over this tiny I forgot to put my screen somewhere display.

Not as bothered by the 'stick-on' tablet as I am in the Tesla.

I'm not a big fan of this design either, but it seems like it's a trend. It's almost as if designers want to mimic Tesla's "no display" theme without going quite that far (e.g. ID4 and Mach-E).

 

[clivem]

I think the bezels are also part of the necessary ruggedness required in an automotive environment.

Hard to see the screen in my car having a tougher life than my phone!

 

[krheinwald]

What's the cup holder design?

You can see one of the two cup holders in the lower right corner.

 

[JRRF]

Hard to see the screen in my car having a tougher life than my phone!

It's hard to imagine your phone is exposed to the same vibration, intense heat, intense cold, etc. and designed to last for 10-20 years.

 

[JRRF]

You can see one of the two cup holders in the lower right corner.
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Two cup holders!!!😎🥳 That's all we need to know...Sold!

 

[14Ringer]

Another look at the Polestar 3's cupholders.

 

[clivem]

It's hard to imagine your phone is exposed to the same vibration, intense heat, intense cold, etc. and designed to last for 10-20 years.

Bit off topic but my phone gets attached to the handle bars of my mountain bike, it absolutely gets a rougher time. Don't hit many jumps in the P2!

 

[JRRF]

Bit off topic but my phone gets attached to the handle bars of my mountain bike, it absolutely gets a rougher time. Don't hit many jumps in the P2!

I would suggest that vibration is not the worst of it. Everyone drops their phone. The car is still a harsh environment. Ask an early Telsa owner how well the consumer grade tablets held up in the car . And you likely replace your phone every 3-4 years.

 

[Bl4ckD0g]

I think the bezels are also part of the necessary ruggedness required in an automotive environment.

Possibly, when you slap it on like that instead of spending the the design effort and time to actually integrate it in the car. However as it is a fixed mount there are also sorts of engineering choices that could be made to stop the flex and provide the ruggedness; this was just lazy for a company that is self proclaimed about design.

And oh my gosh look at that interior with both screens on 🤮 🤮 🤮

 

[nbvolks]

Couple of additional things to point out from the unveiling.

1. I actually just noticed from my own photos that they have the hazard light button twice. Once in the center display (lower right corner) and again up in the overhead console near the rear view mirror. The latter is there to comply with US (and maybe others) regulations that require a physical button for the hazard lights.

2. The "laser" light across the dash and door panels will only be adjustable on the Performance Pack optioned cars. Maria Uggla was saying that on non-Performance Pack cars they will only be white, and adjustable for brightness. On Performance Pack cars you can chose between the same white or gold illumination (and both have adjustable brightness). I asked her why the photos and even the demo car there, made it look like the laser light in the Performance Pack was more orange than gold. She promised that the final product will appear to match the seatbelts, and not be so orange looking.

 

[nbvolks]

It's hard to imagine your phone is exposed to the same vibration, intense heat, intense cold, etc. and designed to last for 10-20 years.

Yeah, I don't think that's the issue. Unlike a phone, it's not a requirement for them to package all the control components into the display portion itself. They absolutely could construct a bezel-less design and still be "ruggedized" for in-vehicle realities.

 

[JRRF]

2. The "laser" light across the dash and door panels will only be adjustable on the Performance Pack optioned cars. Maria Uggla was saying that on non-Performance Pack cars they will only be white, and adjustable for brightness. On Performance Pack cars you can chose between the same white or gold illumination (and both have adjustable brightness). I asked her why the photos and even the demo car there, made it look like the laser light in the Performance Pack was more orange than gold. She promised that the final product will appear to match the seatbelts, and not be so orange looking.

Now this is definitely worth 6K 🤣

 

[P3P6BigVikPoleDaddy]

Yep, that was a smaller type carry-on roller bag. The trunk, to me, didn't seem all that much bigger than the P2's trunk.

That is me sitting back there. There was plenty of space back there. If I were to guess, I'd say the bench overall is a couple inches wider than the P2's. The center section is wider, and received the drop down armrest and cupholder setup taken directly off the V90.

The only potential negative about the rear seats is that they pushed them back (good), but to maintain head room under the sloping rear roof line, they lowered the seats. Lowing the seats means your knees are up and there's minimal thigh support. You can see that in the picture of me sitting in it. That's not generally a comfortable way to sit for prolonged periods.

I loved the stadium style seating in the backseats of my 2004 Volvo XC90, and we drove 1000s of miles with friends and young kids in the backseat. This posture you mention while you sat in the P3 would definitely annoy and tire our backseat friends! The cargo area definitely seems small, and it feels very similar to my C40.

 

[nbvolks]

Pardon me if you've already said but did you notice what the view out the rear window is like? Looks even worse than the P2 from the outside.

I didn't, because the two times I was sitting in the front, people had the rear hatch open.

 

[goulash1971]

I'm 50/50 on this ... there are some things that I really like (the laser line, the seat design) ... some things that I cannot make a call on (driver display) ... some things that I absolutely hate (all of those capacitive touch buttons, the drive select stalk, the rigid "map pockets" on the back of the seats) ... some things are a big improvement on the P*2, some things are regressions (IMHO) and somethings are just different choices ¯\(ツ)/¯

It certainly looks like a "designed" interior ... but whether some of those design choices (those capacitive buttons for example) end up being "designed for function" choices ... well I guess that can only be judged by driving the car.

Sitting in the P*2 and it feels like the interior was designed around the driver, especially when compared to the Model S where it felt that the interior was designed around the touch-screen ... I'm not completely certain what the focus of the P*3 interior design is ... I guess I'll need to sit in it before I come up with any firmer opinion

 

[JRRF]

the drive select stalk

I've always hated this on MB too.

 

[nbvolks]

I mentioned this elsewhere, but since there's this dedicated interior thread, I'll add it here. One thing I noticed, and maybe it will be different on the production vehicles, was that the Polestar logo on the panoramic roof is no longer illuminated. It's just etched onto the glass. It might be a small thing, but that was a pretty cool little design detail on the P2, and one that EVERY passenger has commented on. It would be a shame to see it not fully carried forward.