The profitable design is deliberate to turn out to be a part of the Sizzling Wheels providing, obtainable for buy internationally, as the primary Sizzling 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 potential and push the boundaries of efficiency and design of the automobile of their closing submission.

The one requirement is that Mattel ought to have the ability to translate the ultimate design right into a 1:64 Sizzling Wheels die-cast automobile, and visuals exhibiting the automobile’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 Sizzling Wheels design professionals – can be coached one-on-one by Polestar’s design staff to refine their submitted designs in the 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 potential. This can be a likelihood for all collaborating designers to essentially push that Polestar envelope and let their creativeness run riot.”

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

“The Sizzling Wheels design staff has at all times challenged the standard strategy and the Polestar Design Contest permits the design neighborhood to showcase their expertise and wow us with one thing we have now by no means seen earlier than, and we can’t 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 according to the Polestar model and design. For the reason that 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 staff or within the wider skilled design trade.

For the reason that begin, the Polestar Design Contest has featured a wide range of automobiles and leading edge ideas and attracts entries from college students {and professional} designers throughout the globe. The designs have included a automobile 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 delivered to life in full scale on the famend Fiskars Artwork & Design Biennale in Finland.

In 2023, Polestar debuted the Synergy idea automobile, winner of that contest’s Efficiency theme, through the IAA in Munich, adopted by Mattel’s Sizzling 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 staff to show three distinct goals 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 Sizzling Wheels collaboration will push the design neighborhood to work outdoors of their conventional consolation zones by balancing the minimalist Polestar model essence with the intense Sizzling Wheels aesthetic. However whereas we’re anticipating a few 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.”