Polestar 4 SUV

The Polestar 4 SUV lists from $73,900 for the Rear Motor and $81,750 for the Dual Motor, both before on-road costs, which is $81,135 and $89,380 driveaway in New South Wales. The coupe now matches those figures: Polestar cut it by $4,600 in September 2026 to align the two bodies. So for the same money, the SUV adds a conventional rear window, a bigger boot, 25mm more rear headroom and about 10km more range. Orders are open now, with first Australian deliveries due in the fourth quarter of 2026.

The SUV runs the same 100kWh battery in both variants. Polestar's WLTP claims are 630km for the Rear Motor and 600km for the Dual Motor, roughly 10km up on the matching coupe. Expect less on a highway run, as with any EV. On a DC fast charger the peak is 200kW, good for a claimed 10 to 80 per cent in about 30 minutes, and home AC charging tops out at 11kW. The limitation is the 400-volt architecture: 800-volt rivals such as the Kia EV6 and Hyundai Ioniq 5 refill noticeably faster, and that is the trade to weigh.

Polestar changed 48 parts to make the SUV: a straighter roofline, an upright tailgate and a conventional rear window with a standard mirror. That restores over-the-shoulder vision the coupe's camera-fed digital mirror replaced. The boot grows to 530L seats-up and folds to roughly 1,665L without the coupe's load divider, second-row headroom gains 25mm, and claimed range rises about 10km to 630km on the Rear Motor. The catch is provenance and timing: the SUV is built in South Korea, not China, and does not reach Australian customers until the fourth quarter of 2026.

With equipment identical across the two, the split is purely mechanical. The Rear Motor is the range champion: 630km WLTP, a 7.3-second 0 to 100 km/h claim and 1,500kg braked towing, from $73,900 list. Paying the $8,245 driveaway step for the Dual Motor adds a front motor, 400kW and 686Nm, all-wheel-drive grip, a 3.9-second sprint and 2,000kg towing, at the cost of 30km of range (600km). For most buyers the Rear Motor wins on range and price; choose the Dual Motor only if the pace or the traction matters to you.

The Polestar 4 holds a five-star ANCAP rating, though ANCAP tested the earlier body; the SUV shares the platform and is expected to carry it, but the new rear-window body has not been separately assessed. Standard safety runs deep on both variants: seven airbags plus autonomous emergency braking, lane keep assist, adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, pedestrian detection, driver attention monitoring and automatic high beam. On the shared platform, AU reviewers of the coupe rate the assist tuning as well-judged, the lane keeping and driver monitoring helping rather than nagging. The SUV adds one thing the coupe cannot: a real rear window for over-the-shoulder vision.

The Polestar 4 SUV carries the same ownership terms as the rest of the range: a five-year, unlimited-kilometre vehicle warranty backed by five years of roadside assistance. Its high-voltage battery is covered separately for eight years or 160,000km, the number worth lining up first when you cross-shop EVs. Scheduled servicing falls due only every two years or 30,000km, well beyond a typical petrol interval. Because service and any bundled-service offers move over time, get the current terms in writing from Polestar before you settle on a price.