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You know what, I like the fact Ora are doing something different, a little weird and wacky but at least its not another boxy, bland suv. Love in the interior so the outside wouldn't bother me so much.
But SUVs are all cool and different😭😭😭 Fang Cheng Bao Leopard 5 is like the coolest car in the world, and the Yangwang U8 is so massive and luxurious and offroad worthy, and Li Auto L9 is like a budget GLS in which you can point to the window and say "open this", and Hongqi E-HS9 is SOOOO GORGEOUS😭😭😭😭😭
In this vehicles exterior styling I see: VW old Beetle in the front, the Panamera as mentioned in the video, Bugatti vibes with the wheel to wheel arch, Tesla Model 3 in the roof/windows, and from the rear, Bentley Continental GT. That being said, as funky as it is, I like it a lot!!
I'll admit the front looks a bit unfinished proportions wise and it clearly should have been a Liftback (especially with such a narrow opening) but I can't help liking it regardless.
I have a Haval H6 here in Australia…. And I am definitely buying the ORA when it arrives here later this year …. Shame this review had so much bias in it …
It's different and I like different. The interior and exterior is beautiful, don't mind that the screen is small it's supposed to be a car not a ipad. Ora did a wonderful job all of the brands under the GWM umbrella are unique nothing overlaps.
Ora needs to do a sports car EV with better performance than the Tesla roadster. Then they can call it the "Scalded Cat" (as in "goes like a scalded cat"...) :)
The ORAs seem less than their parts; there are so many things that look and sound good - but when they put it together as a whole they seem to make a hash of it.
The styling reminds me of the futuristic car designs from bad 1960's SciFi movies that people thought we would be driving by now, but I must admit I really like it.
The folks that designed the side-sculpting & rear wheel moldings must've been temps that worked when the Porsche-style designers were off duty. Both styles are cool enough, but they fit together like fudge and sauerkraut :^{ Overall, however, they've got something unique that everyone's going to take a second look at.
@Xarifa Zee I understood. I just meant that this design style _could_ have also been an emulation of Porsche style by a Chinese designer who liked that style. But you've made it clear that it was Derta.
My wife likes this car very much while I m watching the video. I checked the specs online about Lighting Cat, highest speed 170KM, not fast enough comparing with Tesla Model 3. But, To a tesla owner, this Lighting Car is not a bad choice for a second EV in the family.
Oh man if you driver that fast every day, im pretty sure you'll see the real lighting cat in the heaven...... too fast, it's very hard to control for most cars over 120kmph although many design standards are very much higher than this limit
The greatest issue for me with electric cars ( and I'm an EV owner since 2015 ) is the DC charging infrastructure, aka fast charging network, and cold battery charging + recharge times, these have to be greatly improved. I got a good 300 - 350 Kms range driving hard in my VW id3 Tour 5, that's 186 - 217 miles and if I drive at slower speeds, say 50-60 Mph I would get 250-280 miles and this is ok for 99% of my driving needs, In the first year of owning the id3 I clocked up around 30,000 miles but, it's when away from home and you need to charge both the infrastructure and poor charging speeds let it down, of course the infrastructure is not the fault of the car but the charge times are mostly down to the id3 when plugged in at a 150 Kw+ charger and a cold battery can greatly increase the charge time becuase while it has a battery heater VW have decided not to use it to precondition the battery even when plugged into the mains unless the battery temp falls below something like 0 Deg C. Anyway, electric cars while great have some ways to go before becoming a viable ICE replacement. If we're to go on very long trips I'll take the Diesel Mitsubishi Outlander instead for the sheer convenience of not having to endure a bad infrastructure but also poor charge times. My BMW i3 had a small petrol generator, called the Rex, and when the battery got to 6% the generator would kick in to provide as much range as you want while there's Petrol in the tank, the generator never drove the wheels, it acted strictly as a generator but you also had the option to turn on the generator once the charge got to 70% so you could turn it on on higher speed roads to preserve battery power then use that on slower roads and/or in town/city driving, it was really a great piece of engineering. The Rex allowed complete independence of the public charging network and also completely avoided the low charging power of a cold battery which I saw as little as 22 Kw on DC. The one I had was the 33 Kwh, shame they didn't make a larger EV with similar tech instead of pure ev or PHEV with the engine as the main source of power and tiny useless battery, the i3 was an amazing car.
Shame you didn’t research this car first before reviewing . The former Porsche designer designed the Ora range and now works for GWM You don’t need a bigger screen, you failed to mention voice control for turning in and off ac and open and closing windows . This car has been tested in AustraliA and reviewers seem to disagree with you on nearly every point . It’s extremely quiet interior, most comfortable drive in it’s class . You seem quite biased from the beginning , which made your review seem under researched
Someone once described Teslas as being "high tech electrics in the chassis of a 90's Kia". And the interior of this car reminds me of that. steering wheel buttons aside! Pretty, but pretty simplistic in content.
Looks like a Porsche that fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on its way down. If anything, the interior is even more Porsche-like than the exterior, especially in that colour and with that gauge cluster.
I actually sat in this car once. The designers DID overcomplicate some important things though especially the way they position the AC buttons, media mode buttons, hazard light buttons, AC knobs, drive mode knobs almost haphazardly. I get it, you want to appeal to drivers who like physical buttons, but THIS IS A BAD WAY TO DO IT!!
I really like the looks of the CAT range especially this lighting version. However I won’t be buying it. I’ll stick with the much higher tech and faster Smart #1 Brabus.
if this starts at $27K in China, then if sold in the west, it will be expensive.. considering the Good Cat starts in china around $17K-$20K USD, and in Germany its starts at $33K... imagine the same price increase fot this car.. at that price point, you can by so many good electric cars, that this wont be a stand out...
while the looks is not easy on the eyes, still compelling car for unique looks and good value. This has the battery capacity of Tesla Model 3/Y LR but at $35K only?! The battery pack is LFP, Tesla indeed can make an LFP battery based Long range car at this price. There was a rumor that Tesla supplier that they could be testing a longer wheel base Model Y
I doubt it's high on the priority list as it's not a China exclusive vehicle nor a fully Chinese brand either and it's already available outside China so they're not ahead of anyone with it either.
These are the rear lights they should have fitted to the Funky Cat. The rear lights on the Funky Cat are horrible. And oh, anyone seeing some Bugatti Chiron cues in that centre console? 🤔
Now koreans copy chinese cars! Yes you read it right, as the new ioniq 6 is so similar to this one. I think the Ora got better quality than hyundai these days
