Once More, with (Ventilated) Feeling
After much hemming, hawing, and searching for an alternative electric sedan that I liked, I can report that I stayed in the Polestar family. Grounded my 2024 P2 for a nearly identical CPO model that has the ventilated seats, and saved some money over buying out my lease in the process.
I'm still very nervous about the state of in-warranty service after the final new cars are sold, but ultimately the price was too good to pass up. Under 30k OTD for a '24 P2 (single motor, pilot, plus, leather, 20k miles) is a steal for a wonderful car that fits my needs. I drove a bunch of other cars and looks at what felt like thousands of i4s, but at the end of the day didn't feel like the ~10k premium for a comparable i4 was justifiable. If the Polestar exit wasn't bringing down prices it might have gone a different way, but c'est la vie.
Polestar (and really Volvo, post-exit): please keep the service network from disintegrating. There will still be thousands of new and CPO cars on the roads for the foreseeable future, and we deserve reliable access to a service network.