The Chinese continue to up their game. Here’s the latest from their #3 phone maker, entering the EV market, the SU7. The specs are impressive although, in classic chinese marketing fashion, they make Tesla look like an oracle of specification truth.
It’s a joint partnership between the aforementioned Xiaomi cell phone company and the firmly established, state-owned #5 automaker in China, BAIC Group.
Just for fun, here’s a couple of the very Porsche Taycan-looking knockoffs tearing around a frozen lake in Northern China:
The Chinese make all our shit already. The fact that it’s taken them this long to get going in earnest on copying our cars is something of a mystery.
From what I hear/read, Chinese cars are being well received in Europe and Australia. Inherent quirks in specs and equipment are more than made up for by the price. Quality control is decent too (better than a CyberTruck, but then a 1970s Jaguar had better QC than a CyberTruck).
EVs are not good for towing; that’s not the issue here. The issue is that the manly-man of man-trucks is worse at towing than its nine year old design, cheaper SUV sibling.
