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Beyond that, we were a little extravagant with the options list, ticking boxes for various packs that add just over \u00a312,000 to the list price, but give us a chance to assess the value of the various extras. One place we didn\u2019t add any cost, though, was the Magnesium paint. As the standard colour, it\u2019s the only one that doesn\u2019t add \u00a31,000 to the price, but I think it suits the car better than the blue, black, white or lighter grey options. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s early days with the car, so we\u2019re still waiting for the predicted range to settle down in line with my driving style. The figure is hovering around the 240-mile mark on an 80 per cent charge, which means 300 miles or so from a full battery. As soon as I start doing some longer trips, I\u2019m expecting that to rise. <\/p>\n

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What has been getting a rise out of me from day one, though, is the key. I can\u2019t fathom Polestar\u2019s decision-making, and assume it\u2019s a case of style over logic, but there\u2019s no unlock button on the fob \u2013 the car opens as you walk up to it with the key in your pocket. Which is fine until one of your children remembers they\u2019ve left their phone behind and runs back to the car to get it. <\/p>\n

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The Polestar 3 is classy, comfortable and spacious, and I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m looking forward to some longer trips to really see whether a range of well over 400 miles makes this car easier to live with than EVs I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve run in the past. That will also allow time to get the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}