This 521bhp, FWD 'Road Car' Concept Has Polestar Blood

The Lynk & Co 03 Cyan Concept is a "development platform for future production performance road cars," and it's built by the company formerly known as Polestar
This 521bhp, FWD 'Road Car' Concept Has Polestar Blood

Before long, there might be a new player in the super saloon game. And it’s an unlikely one: Lynk & Co. The Geely-owned Canadian company is all about car sharing or ‘flexible ownership,’ which makes it a little odd that it’s competing in the FIA World Touring Car Cup this year.

Now, though, Lynk & Co has a ‘concept road car’. But it’s actually built by the same people as the touring car: Cyan Racing. You might have heard of the organisation under its former name: Polestar.

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The company looked after Volvo’s racing efforts and had input on its performance cars (before the Polestar brand was repurposed for hybrid and electric vehicles), so it knows a thing or two about making quick saloons. Its latest effort, the 03 Cyan Concept, was first revealed on 4 March, and has been showcased in the new video you can see above.

It uses the Lynk & Co 03 - a car made from numerous parts borrowed from sister company Volvo - as a starting point. Quite a bit of the standard car looks to have been lobbed in the bin, however, with the concept sporting Öhlins adjustable dampers, a wider track, 285-width tyres at each corner and aggressive bodywork.

This 521bhp, FWD 'Road Car' Concept Has Polestar Blood

Braking is taken care of by six-piston calipers at the front and two-pot calipers at the rear. It’ll need to lean on them, too, as the 2.0-litre turbocharged inline-four under the bonnet is good for 521bhp at 7800rpm. Like the racing car, it sends the whole lot through the front wheels exclusively, via a sequential gearbox and a mechanical limited-slip differential.

That’ll explain the relatively modest 0-62mph time of 4.4 seconds, something we’ll happily forgive, as the Cyan Concept is more about going around corners stupidly quickly. It’s capable of pulling 1.5 lateral G, Cyan says.

The 03 Cyan Concept is inspired by the company's World Touring Car Cup racer
The 03 Cyan Concept is inspired by the company's World Touring Car Cup…

Now for the important bit. Cyan Racing’s R&D boss Henrik Fries dubs the car a “development platform for future production performance road cars based on Lynk & Co technology”. Which sounds like a fairly clear statement of intent.

Any production cars that come from this won’t be quite as focused, however. “While this concept might be a bit extreme, we have learned that in order to explore the true characteristics of a car you need to push it to its maximum and that is just what we are doing right now with this car,” says Thed Björk, Cyan’s development and racing driver.

Consider our interest piqued…

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Comments

Ali Mahfooz

It looks like something out of an open world video game like GTA or Saints Row lol.

03/13/2019 - 17:34 |
53 | 0

witch car made by a new manufacturer doesn’t look like a gta car ?

03/13/2019 - 17:45 |
1 | 7
Anonymous

Normal sedan version of this would be perfect.

03/13/2019 - 17:39 |
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Klush

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Why does this have 5 dislikes? It would be kinda cool.

03/13/2019 - 20:07 |
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GunMax

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

There you go

03/14/2019 - 15:00 |
0 | 1
Griffin Mackenzie

That thing would be a beast!

03/13/2019 - 17:43 |
3 | 1
SirJamjaxIsGoingAgain-PeaceOutChaps

understeers into tyre wall

03/13/2019 - 17:51 |
31 | 3
Anonymous

Chinese shit

03/13/2019 - 18:25 |
5 | 9
Itsuki

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Chinese money, Swedish quality

03/13/2019 - 19:35 |
4 | 1
UnknownCat13

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

What’s wrong with that?

03/15/2019 - 07:19 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

The front looks like a Dodge challenger with headlights bolted on top

03/13/2019 - 18:36 |
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Ryan L.

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

i see more charger than challenger, but i see what you mean. the rear looks pretty good imo, but the front is horrendous.

03/14/2019 - 14:04 |
5 | 0
Earandir

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

It looks like the lovechild from a Porsche Panamera and a Dodge Charger…

03/15/2019 - 11:35 |
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Itsuki

It’s got Juke-Style headlights. Other than that a big fan

03/13/2019 - 19:36 |
2 | 0
Anonymous

In reply to by Itsuki

they look more like ferrari 612 scaglietti style headlights

03/14/2019 - 02:13 |
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White Comet

looks handsome, all those huge wide rear fender, but FWD. Just insert a shaft and make it RWD please….

03/13/2019 - 20:11 |
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Anonymous

This is stupid, the car looks hella nice, but it is front wheel flippin drive… 😠

03/13/2019 - 20:25 |
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RWB Dude

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Nothing wrong with front wheel drive m8

03/13/2019 - 23:39 |
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RWB Dude

The back looks too much like an Audi and the front looks rly freaking weird and ugly

03/13/2019 - 22:21 |
7 | 0