The successful design is deliberate to turn out to be a part of the Scorching Wheels providing, obtainable for buy internationally, as the primary Scorching Wheels x Polestar automobile to be produced as a part of a wider partnership with Polestar manufacturing fashions.

The submission deadline is 16 April 2024. Polestar expects to disclose the winner of the competition in This fall 2024.

The Synergy Idea, winner of the 2022 version of the competition

Entrants are inspired to be as imaginative as attainable and push the boundaries of efficiency and design of the automobile of their remaining submission.

The one requirement is that Mattel ought to have the ability to translate the ultimate design right into a 1:64 Scorching Wheels die-cast automobile, and visuals displaying the automobile’s inside design and fast environment ought to be included as a part of their submission.

Within the spirit of the competitors’s historical past of collaboration, entrants shortlisted forward of ultimate choice – by each Polestar and Scorching Wheels design professionals – will likely be coached one-on-one by Polestar’s design workforce to refine their submitted designs in direction of remaining choice.

Maximilian Missoni, Polestar’s Head of Design, says: “Goals have the ability to encourage and transport us past what we thought attainable. This can be a likelihood for all collaborating designers to essentially push that Polestar envelope and let their creativeness run riot.”

“Each Polestar and Scorching Wheels dedicate time, vitality and ability to make sure design is on the core of our autos,” stated Ted Wu, VP and World Head of Car Design, Mattel.

“The Scorching Wheels design workforce has all the time challenged the traditional method and the Polestar Design Contest permits the design group to showcase their abilities and wow us with one thing we’ve by no means seen earlier than, and we can not wait to see the submissions.”

Concerning the Polestar Design Contest

Launched in 2020, the Polestar Design Contest challenges aspiring designers, each professionals and college students, to create thrilling visions in keeping with the Polestar model and design. Because the first contest, the competitors has highlighted high expertise all over the world, with lots of the college students occurring to work for the Polestar Design workforce or within the wider skilled design trade.

Because the begin, the Polestar Design Contest has featured quite a lot of autos and leading edge ideas and attracts entries from college students {and professional} designers throughout the globe. The designs have included a automotive which tackles native air pollution with on-board and externally seen air filters, an electric-and-helium airship, prosthetic springboard blades to help strolling, and KOJA, the micro-space tree home by Finnish designer Kristian Talvitie that was dropped at life in full scale on the famend Fiskars Artwork & Design Biennale in Finland.

In 2023, Polestar debuted the Synergy idea automotive, winner of that contest’s Efficiency theme, throughout the IAA in Munich, adopted by Mattel’s Scorching Wheels Legends Tour cease in El Segundo, California.

The only-seat electrical supercar is as a lot a narrative of collaboration as it’s design, with two exterior and one inside design winners chosen from over 600 preliminary entries, who then spent six months working along with the Polestar Design workforce to show three distinct desires into one cohesive actuality.

Juan Pablo Bernal, Inside Design Supervisor at Polestar, founding father of the Polestar Design Contest and curator of the @polestardesigncommunity Instagram web page, feedback: “I imagine this yr’s Scorching Wheels collaboration will push the design group to work exterior of their conventional consolation zones by balancing the minimalist Polestar model essence with the intense Scorching Wheels aesthetic. However whereas we’re anticipating a number of the most excessive submissions but, we don’t count on to be any much less impressed by the standard, amount and variety of entries we obtain.”