Revealed Nov 10, 2026, the first show car from design chief Philipp Römers is a compact electric four-seater with rear-hinged doors, no B-pillar and a cabin that shifts when you change driving modes. It previews the next Polestar 2 and the Polestar 7 SUV, but it is a design study, not a car you can order, and new Polestars will not be sold in the United States.
At a glance, Polestar's new Formula 2030 concept looks like a sports car someone stretched to fit four doors. It sits just 53.1 inches tall, it's 79.6 inches wide, and its rear doors swing open backward so you can walk into four individual seats with no B-pillar in the way. Polestar revealed the car on Nov 10, 2026, as the first show car designed under Philipp Römers, its head of design, and as a rolling preview of the next Polestar 2 and the coming Polestar 7 SUV (Polestar).
It is not a production car. Polestar calls it a compact, practical four-door sports car and the physical form of its Formula 2030 plan. Investors, retailers and a few customers saw it privately on Sep 7, 2026, at The Cube in Gothenburg (Polestar). Römers, who joined from Audi in January 2025, has called the work a bold evolution of the brand's look, not a restart (Autocar, Top Gear).
The concept is 184.3 inches long (4,680 millimeters) on a 109.4-inch (2,780-millimeter) wheelbase, and Polestar says it sits even lower than the Polestar 5 Grand Tourer. The Dual Blade headlights are tucked into an aero wing and, Polestar says, preview the face of the next Polestar 2, planned for 2027. A single, vertical windshield wiper sits on a wraparound, visor-like windshield that nods to the first Polestar 2, and a LiDAR unit stays hidden under a shroud until you use the car's autonomous mode (Polestar).
At the back, Polestar has dropped the full-width light bar used on recent models and replaced it with new Single Blade rear lights. A rear wing is mounted in the center on lit supports, above a deep diffuser. The 22-inch center-lock wheels share the body color, Nitrogen, a concept-only shade Polestar says changes with the light, and the Brembo calipers are finished in Swedish Gold. Öhlins dampers are on display in the front trunk, which Polestar has sized for racing helmets and a fire extinguisher (Polestar).
Inside are four individual seats with inflatable bolsters that mold to each person,. The driver gets a 20-inch curved HyperDIM display mounted to the steering column, and a 12.2-inch center screen set into the tunnel. Below that screen are eight physical controls you can swap and reprogram. The official concept page also confirms steer-by-wire, with no mechanical steering column and haptic feedback for road feel (Polestar).
A slider on the center console switches between Performance, Normal and Autonomous. In Autonomous, the center screen stands up, and the seat and steering wheel move apart. In Performance, the screen sinks flush into the console and the wheel and driver display pull closer. Google Gemini is built in, as it is in Polestar's current cars (Polestar).
Polestar has confirmed that design cues from Formula 2030 will appear on the next Polestar 2 in 2027 and the Polestar 7 compact SUV in 2028. The Dual Blade nose is the clearest preview of the new 2. Top Gear reports that the new rear lighting and some of the rear shapes will show up on the 7, and that Römers said the concept could fit on a current Geely-group platform if the response is strong enough — not a plan to build this sports car (Top Gear).
Polestar also has not published horsepower, battery size, range, a 0-60 time or a price. The Car Guide wrote that it expects "an electric car with a large battery, two motors and at least 1,000 horsepower," but that figure is the outlet's speculation, not a Polestar claim (The Car Guide).
There is a harder limit than the concept itself. In June 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce declined to authorize Polestar under the Connected Vehicle Rule for model year 2027 and later. Polestar says it will keep selling remaining US inventory while it lasts, and that no new vehicle will be offered as a 2027 or later model year. Warranties and service stay in place for cars already on the road (Polestar, Polestar).
Canada is still an active market. CEO Michael Lohscheller has named it as a place the company will keep investing, and Polestar put the 2027 Polestar 2 on sale there in June (Polestar).
Formula 2030 is a look book, and a pretty convincing one. The low stance, the pillarless doors and the return of real buttons are the kind of ideas enthusiasts have been asking for, even if the moving cabin and coach doors are unlikely to survive unchanged. The honest reading is that this is how Polestar wants the next 2 and the 7 to feel, not a sports car you can order.
If you are in the United States, this concept is a window into cars you will not be able to buy new. The next Polestar 2 and the Polestar 7 are planned for 2027 and 2028, after the point when new Polestars are no longer offered here. In Canada and other markets where the brand is staying, those production cars are the ones to watch, not this one-off show car. We'll update this story if Polestar ever confirms a production version, or publishes the performance figures it left out of the reveal.
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