Polestar is organizing one other design contest in 2024, and this time the stakes are greater than ever. The model teamed up with Scorching Wheels, and the profitable design will get was a die-cast mannequin that can be part of the toymaker’s catalog and find yourself in shops everywhere in the world.
Just like the earlier editions, the 2024 contest encourages individuals to look towards the longer term. Polestar needs entrants to “be as imaginative as possible and push the boundaries of performance and design,” although the design must be was a 1/64-scale toy with relative ease. Designers have to create each an exterior and an inside design, they usually’re requested to think about the car’s speedy environment.
Anybody can take part within the contest, whether or not they’re already working as a designer or learning the topic, and the finalists will work one-on-one with members of Polestar’s design group to fine-tune their entry. Profitable the competition comes with quite a few perks past bragging rights and the coolness of proudly owning a Scorching Wheels automotive you designed: Polestar notes a number of the earlier winners work for its design group.
Final 12 months’s winner, an idea automotive referred to as Synergy, was displayed on the Munich auto present and on the Scorching Wheels Legends Tour’s cease in El Segundo, California. It is an electrical, single-seater supercar that represents the work of three designers: two labored on the outside, one created the inside, and the trio spent six months combining their concepts into one automotive. Fittingly, the Synergy appears like a Scorching Wheels automotive.
Polestar will settle for entries from March 5 to April 16. It plans to disclose the winner within the fourth quarter of 2024, that means the automotive might be part of the Scorching Wheels catalog in 2025. Within the meantime, Scorching Wheels is engaged on turning the winner of the 2023 Legends Tour right into a toy. The judges chosen a 1990 Mazda MX-5 Miata constructed out of a shed in New Zealand and fitted with an in depth listing of visible modifications.
