This route was intended to ease us into snow driving, and I appreciated it. I live in South Carolina, so I’m driving in snow maybe once a year at most: Quebec’s environment may as well be another planet. This was also my very first opportunity to get acquainted with the Polestar 2. Luckily, they had the good sense to put the steering and pedals in the same place as any old gas-powered car.
The first course didn’t contain any hairpin turns or slick slaloms, just gentle sweeping turns. I found this to be ideal, and I could test how much torque the surface was comfortable with just before understeer really set in. My driving instructor gave some input along the way, telling me exactly how the weight would transfer under braking and acceleration.
Talon Homer/SlashGearThe Polestars we tested were dual motor cars with the Performance Pack upgrade. The package includes a power increase, large Brembo brakes, and yellow accent seatbelts. Combined output is 476 horsepower and 507 pound-feet of torque. However, the loose road surface and conservative traction control system in the Polestar 2 meant that not a lot of that torque was reaching the ground. The motor regeneration also made driving interesting, because letting off the throttle would decelerate me almost as much as the Brembos. At lower speeds, one-pedal driving is totally possible.
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