the pole star 2 is so good that I nearly bought one is a phrase that I've heard a
lot this week but uh no one actually did buy one they all ended up buying Teslas
or BMWs or golfs or whatever but it is
actually really good so let's have a look at why the poar 2's always been the
bridesmaid and never actually the bride starting with the looks I think the
polstar 2 looks absolutely fantastic but uh no one else seems to care I have not
felt as Anonymous in a car since the bolt euv and that is saying something
moving around to the side we have got proper summer Tires thank you so much
guys and with the performance pack these big old brambo brakes which I have not
really been able to experience on the road but I imagine they will rip your
face off around the side we've got a door handles which shouldn't be a
feature but electric cars for whatever reason it is and also the locks are
super fast so listen to this it's great you can just get in and
out and it's no problem also this being a Volvo not Volvo product we have their
frameless mirrors which look fantastic and also their Auto dimming which is
it's one of those fancy car features that oh love it one electric car thing
that we do get though is a frunk pop it
up
there do you want to do that faster or no uh I can't in the frun we also have a
good bit of room so we've got our Jack here for when you want to adjust your
dampers and also your AC charging cable it's all pretty decent but because you
have to use the hood latch thing you're uh you're never going to use it realistically this is an electric
vehicle and they let you know with this cheesy ass sticker that I would 100%
take off it's a 78 KW hour battery which
is good for 418 km of range with the
spec that we have here the charging ports right here and it does support up
to 150 KW DC fast charging which is not
quite as fast as some of the other vehicles that we've seen But the area
under the charging curve is really quite good so you get 150 Kow for most of it
instead of the some where it's like 300 nothing around back we have the absolute
best kick sensor that I've ever had in a car like everything else I've just ended
up using a little button there is one down here but this one man it just works
fantastic also Power Lift power close
really great all right stop stop I want to show them the trunk stop ha it did it
oh look at that oh
no that's kind of impressive stop way though that's pretty cool in the trunk
we have a surprising amount of room you've got the lift back so it's easy to get stuff in and out and we not only
have this space right here but underneath there's also quite a bit of
space which is a welcome little surprise and we have the Volvo signature little
grocery rack hopping into the back seat it's acceptable I have about uh two mm
maybe of head clearance and a little bit
of room here behind the driver's seat it's adequate but not amazing we do have
the optional heated rear seats back here and overall it's um it's a fine spot to
be it's like you can throw people back there but it's definitely not an
executive spot hopping into the driver's seat this is where the problems start
now the seats themselves are very comfortable they're cloth and a turns
out on a hot day they show your sweat that's pretty gross but they are very
comfortable we have plenty of adjustment and they do hold you in nice and tight
when you're going around corner Corners problem is I can't get comfortable in
here like not at all I want to be something like four 6 in further back
around here-ish but then I don't have an armrest for my left ARM this door is
just way too short and they haven't extended this out onto the B pillar like
some other cars confound that problem once I have moved up here and my legs
are not as comfy as they would like to be this is terrible guys what the like
actually this is not a cheap car well it's just one of the worst armrests I
felt you can get a base Corolla and it is more comfortable than this like not
only is the material really harsh but also there's like basically zero padding
so it's just my elbow it actually hurts all the time and I finish my drives in
this sore because I it's so strange the way that you have to contort yourself on
top of that the right hand side is also very bad it's fine if you don't want to
have a cup holder just just right here pretty good this right here has a nice
squishy material that I really wish they used on the door guys if you want to
have a cup you need to move it back like that which means that your right armrest
is way further back than your left armrest so you're kind of
like the whole time and it's quite uncomfortable on top of that the little
edge here is very hard like all of this
nice and Squishy love it the very front where when it's back where your armr
sucks what's even worse say you want to have two cups in here which I think is
pretty reasonable given like you know there's two seats you might have two
people up here look at
this wow that's so good I love that why
have storage in the center console when you can have your second cup holder and
you just have to Yeet the armrest in the back that is terrible guys this is a
lotus and I think even lotuses they fixed that overall the storage in here
just feels not very well thought out and generally you have a spot up here to put
your phone which is fine enough I guess there's a little sunglasses holder on
both sides even though it doesn't actually close and there's not enough
room for a water bottle in the door so I don't know don't bring stuff in
here put it in the trunk is the glove box at least decent oh yeah it's a real
glove box the left armrest aside the materials in here are quite nice it
isn't like luxurious sort of materials
like it's not all leather and stuff but it all does feel
really quite good and I think looks pretty fantastic right around the gear
lever bunch of piano black on the controls on the steering wheel piano
black pstar has thought of this though and they have very kindly given us a
little cloth now I get to have 3 and 1
half seconds of no fingerprints on my steering wheel for infotainment this all
is pretty good we've got the nice big touchcreen here and even though we don't
have like physical controls for things like climate this is one of the better
mations that I have seen it's all pretty easy the stuff that he wants down at the
bottom and overall it works pretty well
now for this car we have Android automotive which is not Android auto and
this one right here it's uh yeah polstar were actually the first ones to have
that and uh it shows I don't think they've updated it since then compared
to the lyric that we had last week this is Generations or Os revisions behind
them for sure I really hope when like the postar 3 releases this will get a
nice big update but then again that's already been pushed back so I don't know
when you'll get some love postar 2 owners overall it is pretty good like it
isn't awful like what BMW has but I do
wish that they had at least included Android auto that has been updated since
then and well they do have apple carplay so I really do not understand why they
do not have Android auto one kind of silly thing we uh got the panoramic
sunroof with which first of all doesn't have a sun shade but it does have a
postar logo that lights up cool I guess
postar we at least nice enough to give us a physical volume knob even if it is
kind of hard to reach around the gear lever speaking of which Let's uh put it
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along here the 360 camera is pretty good
not the best I've seen but more than serviceable and that's not what you care
about because we have the performance pack this has 476 horsepower 52 ftlb of
torque and a 0 to 60 of 4.2 seconds this
thing is proper quick and like that launch was pretty violent but it is
nowhere near the kind of just the absolute knockback that this
thing has when you step on the pedal this has some of the best throttle
response that I've ever seen seen in EV
like oh a lot of EVS will kind of just
push you back into the chair rapidly
this right here oh is violent in the way
that it shoves you back in a way that only like the taian and the BMW have
replicated everything else like you know a Tesla it pushes you back I haven't
been in a plaid maybe that's as bad but this right here oh that initial come on
is just just insane this is a very very good package
like nothing else has the kind of confidence in a corner that this right
here has like this thing's 4,800 lb and
I can just send it into corners and not
be concerned about either killing myself or just being really bored like I might
be in you know most Teslas now there are
heaps of cars on the market that have adjustable dampers my golf to adjust the
dampers in my golf I press mode go to the menu sport wow now they're stiffer
Comfort now they're more comfy that's it
on the P star 2 it's a little bit more complicated on the front it's not too
bad so there's a little dial down here uh just need to turn the tire all the
way over right under like this so I want
turn it clockwise eight times probably if it's at its normal setting now we
have adjustments from zero to 20 with zero being the firmest and 20 being the
most comfortable so we're going to just whack it all the way to the most comfortable see how it feels for the
rear it's a little bit more complicated so you need to get out your jack we're
not actually lifting the car up we just need a little bit more space around the
tire now we need to remove the wheel well liner so that we can get at the top
of the strut Tower you only need a 10 mil to do this so if yours is gone I
don't know you're hooped but we just need seven of these guys to come
off and once we're in here we need to take off the little rubber chummy on top
all right got it set back to zero now we count up to
20 with the Comfort setting pull star does say that your cornering will be
compromised let's see if they're correct
that still pretty freaking good like you can definitely tell that you can't turn
in as sharp but if you're using this thing just like on normal roads
man that still handle really really really well all right let's find a bumpy
section I can already tell that it's way more compliant this is heaps better oh
this is very reasonable ah this is great all right so now we have suspension
that's compliant enough for daily driving but the handling is still
absolutely excellent and if you do want to track this thing or you know that
you're going to go on like a big windy road trip down to Crows Nest or
something you can stiffen her up a bit and be very happy I would say this is a
success
one thing softening your dampers can also do that might not be as obvious is
affect your acceleration cuz you know your squats down it's just loading the
suspension instead of loading the tires let's see here oh nope it's still brutal
since we did adjust the dampers when you're putting along it is very
comfortable in here and it's relatively
quiet it isn't quite the level of refinement that you would find in like
the ionic 6 or the lyric or well most
electric cars but it is overall pretty good and none of those have the level of
performance that this thing has like not even close this being you know n a Volvo
has all of their safety features so we have pretty decent adaptive Crews and
Lane centering it's not industry-leading like it isn't as good as the stuff that
you'll find from like GM or hyday or
Lexus or it's not great but it's way better than not having it for sure it
even does pretty decent start and stop even though if I'm coming up behind a
vehicle I'm not going to trust it to Slow Me Down in time like I did in the
lyric what's also pretty decent is the sound system play crab Rave please sign
the Spotify app with oh you piece of play crab rave on title voice actions
aren't available for that app it fing is
this isn't a this car problem this is a title problem oh wow I can just use the
whole menu here while I'm driving that's a half a questionable one but I
appreciate it in this one we have the Harmon Card and sound system and it's
good
enough who cares about that though we've got some Corners
corner I have not just thrashed a press
car like this one for a good long time like actually I don't even think ever
like the tie can even though that was heaps of fun on public Road you can you
cannot get into that you will either go to jail or go to just being deleted off
the face of the Earth very very fast whereas this right here it's more of
like uh you can have some fun but you don't have to worry about you know the
back coming out and getting wrapped around a pole or going 160 km per hour
in a second and getting wrapped around a pole or like just it it's it's great
this right here it's the pole star it's not the pole The Hitter from the factory
we got well uh way too much base and not enough treble but they give us a proper
EQ so we were able to tweak it to where we actually quite like the sound with
this right here I do see why they have a bit less trouble because uh it is a bit
showy at times in certain songs but overall I like these settings much more
than the default ones thank you so much for including a proper equalizer I
really really do like this thing and it's just so sad the stuff that they
have not quite gotten right because it seems like things that would be really
really easy to fix I really want to just buy one and throw in first of all a bit
of sound deing like this thing's already 4,800 lb 100 lb of sound deadening is
going to be pretty nice day a day if I own this car I would remove all of this
material put better foam underneath it Stitch it back up and probably just be a
much happier camper or uh I don't know I
probably just wouldn't buy one guys for the 2024 please fix the ergonomics for the
driver like I get that there's probably batteries or some crap in the center
console area here but like if this was an ergonomic car to sit in I would very
seriously consider buying one but instead this thing's 77 Grand Canadian
with all of the stuff that we have in it maybe it'll just be one of those people
that said they'll buy one and don't get subscribed and maybe go and I don't know
adjust your dampers stick your hand in a wheel weld or something have a great day