The profitable design is deliberate to grow to be a part of the Scorching Wheels providing, out there for buy the world over, as the primary Scorching Wheels x Polestar car 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 autumn 2024.

The Synergy Concept, winner of the 2022 edition of the contest

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

The one requirement is that Mattel ought to be capable of translate the ultimate design right into a 1:64 Scorching Wheels die-cast car, and visuals exhibiting the car’s inside design and instant environment needs 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 – might be coached one-on-one by Polestar’s design workforce to refine their submitted designs in direction of closing choice.

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

“Each Polestar and Scorching Wheels dedicate time, power and talent to make sure design is on the core of our automobiles,” stated Ted Wu, VP and International Head of Automobile Design, Mattel.

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

In regards to the Polestar Design Contest

Launched in 2020, the Polestar Design Contest challenges aspiring designers, each professionals and college students, to create thrilling visions in step 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 happening to work for the Polestar Design workforce or within the wider skilled design business.

Because the begin, the Polestar Design Contest has featured quite a lot of automobiles 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, in the course of the IAA in Munich, adopted by Mattel’s Scorching Wheels Legends Tour cease in El Segundo, California.

The one-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 12 months’s Scorching Wheels collaboration will push the design neighborhood to work outdoors of their conventional consolation zones by balancing the minimalist Polestar model essence with the acute Scorching Wheels aesthetic. However whereas we’re anticipating a few of the most excessive submissions but, we don’t anticipate to be any much less impressed by the standard, amount and variety of entries we obtain.”