The successful design is deliberate to turn into a part of the Sizzling Wheels providing, out there for buy the world over, as the primary Sizzling 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 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 car of their last submission.

The one requirement is that Mattel ought to be capable of translate the ultimate design right into a 1:64 Sizzling Wheels die-cast car, and visuals exhibiting the car’s inside design and instant environment must 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 – will likely be coached one-on-one by Polestar’s design group to refine their submitted designs in direction of last 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 probability for all collaborating designers to essentially push that Polestar envelope and let their creativeness run riot.”

“Each Polestar and Sizzling Wheels dedicate time, vitality and talent to make sure design is on the core of our autos,” mentioned Ted Wu, VP and World Head of Automobile Design, Mattel.

“The Sizzling Wheels design group has all the time challenged the traditional method and the Polestar Design Contest permits the design neighborhood to showcase their expertise and wow us with one thing we now 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 consistent with the Polestar model and design. For the reason that first contest, the competitors has highlighted high expertise world wide, with most of the college students happening to work for the Polestar Design group or within the wider skilled design business.

For the reason that 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 assist 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 Sizzling 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 group 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 consider this yr’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 acute Sizzling Wheels aesthetic. However whereas we’re anticipating a number 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.”