Polaris

Last year was a busy year for the Polaris Slingshot. Fresh off a styling refresh, complete with interior refinements and software upgrades, 2026 is far from a rest year for America’s favorite three-wheeler. With two new trims in the top end of the lineup packed with features, it’s quite the opposite. This is the 2026 Slingshot Signature Edition and Slingshot Grand Touring, the new apex of a decade-old lineage.

No one has ever accused the Polaris Slingshot of being subtle. Well, the 2026 Polaris Slingshot Signature Edition will turn even more heads.

The 2026 Polaris Slingshot gets some minor updates.

The three-wheeled, open cockpit vehicle that is sort of a car and and sort of not returns the Grand Touring trim and other trims get some new paint schemes.

The gloriously insane Polaris Slingshot gets a new special edition trim level to celebrate its tenth year on the market.

It is tough to think of any vehicle, no matter its number of wheels, which offers a greater number of grins-per-mile than the Polaris Slingshot. Sure, it is wildly impractical and bonkers to look at, but that’s the locus of its appeal – and your author is totally on board. In other words, you’ll find no Slingshot slander in this post.

The 2024 Polaris Slingshot marks the next iteration of the three-wheeler that's fun to drive but also tends to be owned by annoying bros who bump music too loud while trawling in traffic.

Where’s the line between off-road side-by-sides and on-road pickup trucks or SUVs? That’s a boundary explored by the nation’s powersports companies, one which is being pushed even further with the spellcheck-vexing Polaris Xpedition.

For sheer enjoyment and hilarity, the Polaris Slingshot is about the most fun one can have with their clothes on in a road-going vehicle. Three wheels, a ripsaw engine, and a seating position seemingly an inch above the ground all conspire to create one heckuva grin machine. For the upcoming 2023 model year, Polaris is giving its rocket a few tweaks.

You’ve probably seen them, especially if you live in a big city. Three-wheeled vehicles that straddle the line between car and motorcycle that often travel in packs, driven mostly by men in their 30s and 40s.

Adult toys of the non-sexual variety.

Can-Am Spyders. Morgan 3 Wheelers. And Polaris Slingshots. I was loaned one of the latter last year.