Is This The Best Chinese car ever? Xpeng G9 

like wakanda country (movie), most advances tech only inside China.

they can easily, the consumers these days seem to care more about the features than the badge or prestige the Chinese offer a lot for less money

Looks like informed consumers of the modern world are less inclined to pay premium simply for a badge or logo.

@@hermesliteratus882 The problem is some of the legacy automakers luxury cars who do come with great tech and innovation some of them are putting so many things as optional extras and make the buyer pay way too much of what the car is worth like if you buy a Range Rover you pay extra thousands for the adaptive cruise control and radar which are otherwise standard on every car these days 😂😂😂

mg is not well saled in China，it seems like a second or three level brand in China

Check out Wheelsboy review of the L9, which is more comprehensive IMO. Hopefully they'll be doing the G9 soon as well.

If you want people to be nice about ridiculous massive SUVs I suggest you watch another channel. No-one at FC likes these things, and I'm inlined to agree with them. I'm not convinced they are 'essential' to anyone. Get an MPV/van if you need this much space.

@@xxwookey you can't carry golf clubs in an mpv, WHAT WILL PEOPLE THINK?!

XPENG has fallen behind in the new electric car race. The G9 is perfectly sniped by the Li L9 & L8, although I don't think the latter two are perfect, but people like them more. Within less than 48h after the L8 announcement,, XPENG announced that it will lower the price of g9 and increase the configuration.

Elliot isn't a car journalist and he never has been. Simple as that. when he does talk about driving characteristics or comfort he mostly gets it wrong and oversimplified

I mean ultimately isn't that a good thing Wuling is doing? They are willing to sell a car nearly at cost so city dwellers in China can have access to basic eco-friendly personal transportation. As opposed to American car companies who are currently focusing on making giant heavy EVs like the Ford Lightning or GMC Hummer.

@@tren133 for sure.

It has slow screens, poor map interface and lots of sounds and warnings that turn on each new ride. It’s quite far behind Tesla on software, other than that it’s a good car.

😆 🤣

Lol, the fastest train is only 600km/h, and it's a magnetic train.

Agreed!

Look at China Driver.

@@metricstormtrooper thanks, I've subscribed.

The pinnacle of EVs period. Chinese EVs are the pinnacle of EVs so the pinnacle of Chinese EVs means it's top one in the world which I agree with. The only thing that can compete with Huawei's electric motors, HarmonyOS in a car, and CATL's batteries inside is an EV with Huawei motors, HarmonyOS and batteries from BYD.

​​@@jzvr5842HarmonyOS is fully developed by huawei itself,BYD might be developed their own custom software for their car,stop talking nonsense....

China!

It's GuangZhou😃

It looks like an old Range Rover, and Tesla made cars with same tech ten years ago, so not sure what you mean?

@@TheSteinbitt you still spamming for Elon, fanboy?

@@reginald7214 lol

They won't review hybrids

@@reginald7214 its a shame because apart from developed countries, lots of regions need hybrids to make that transformation (lack of charging network). Plus phev can be used as pure electric as well

@@yulwu6758 exactly

NIO ES8 IS NOT VERY GOOD IN 2022

@@famousraperandrapperkriswu656 have you done a test drive of Nio ES8? I do😉

@@SEOcretario Does the version you test drive have air suspension? To be honest, the ES8 and ES6 air suspension is the worst air suspension I have ever experienced... It can't be compared to a benchmark like the Touareg

@@famousraperandrapperkriswu656 yes and no problem in normal driving at Oslo from the center to Holmenkollen, it's very twistty route 😉

How come??? where's the door????

@@yftan4353 it probably slides behind the bodywork. I like that!

Today yes. My five seat SUV was 1490Kg in 2008. The current version with the small engine is 1611Kg

@@theairstig9164 But you're talking about a small SUV.

Agree. We need LandRover to step up, and fast. Jaguar iPace needs full EV stable mates ASAP.

It looks like your coping hardcore, ''we need'' according to who? You? Everyone has different needs, this car is several times better than your old crappy Leaf, even the New Leaf cant hold a candle to this car, two different levels, one is excellent while yours is below average..

@@futmut1000 It's paid for five years ago and has required zero maintenance and get 4.9 miles per kwh, and always gets the job done with no fuss, tough to beat, tech is what you offer when you can't get the job done, it's a distraction.

BYD's Dolphin Car is Suitable for You

@William J doesn't help it you don't live in China!

BYD is the one you need then.

Nope, do you see Singapore running into that problem? A big part of Chinese culture is about being hardworking and diligent. The average Chinese already enjoy living standards that are similar to the West.

@@jzvr5842 Good point, but Singapore is to me not equal to China, though China wants to see it that way. But I totally agree on the Chinese culture and that is exactly why the western world will run into problems. We are too busy getting our work/life balance straight and too much time is being spent on bullshit images from single people, to corporations to government to maintain something irrelevant that they can profit from in any other form. I am not saying everything is bad here, I am also happy human rights don't get breached on a systematic way, but I am worried about our future and I have to spend more time on selecting what is total and utter BS and what is real and worth focusing on. Here are some examples to what I call BS: -Consuming news about people we will never be in touch with - Celebrity News -Driving uncomfortable cars optimized for high speed in countries that have a speed limit -Driving huge and wasteful pick-up trucks on a daily basis when you never/rarely need to transport bulky stuff -Dress yourself according to the lastest fashion trends - just wear what feels and looks good to you and stick with less things in long term -Don't buy stuff you don't need just to impress others -Don't try to impress others in the private world, be yourself and focus on your health and care for your few real friends and be tolerant and helpful to others. I could go on but I have stuff to do, anyway just to give you and idea about 1st world problems, which might overlap with others.

I doubt it unless this company starts gives a lot of kickbacks to the british gov?

This car is coming to Norway

@@danijsn Great news 4 u. Not us in gb!

Why worry? There's bound to be another almost identical car driving along in a week or two. For all we know the Chinese use the same design house as everyone else.

I don't think XPeng sells in any RHD markets. So far only MG and Ora, with BYD also starting to make RHD vehicles. You might see the BYD Sea Lion before this XPeng ever makes it to the UK.

Not really, the NIO ES7 renders it obsolete pretty much and NIO is starting global expansion now.

@@stefanospap6288 the es7 is priced quite a bit higher, but at least it has proper size. this G9 is smaller than a bmw x5, too small to be a flagship model.

@@qilu2004 Have you seen XPENG's markup on their exports to foreign markets? With such markups they compete on the same level as NIO does not do such thing obviously because they are more geared for global presence. Regardless, even in China this SUV is pointless. Who in their right mind would choose this over a NIO. Yes, the price is cheaper but not that much cheaper to justify the huge downgrade and lack of services that NIO offers. BaaS also lowers the upfront cost by 10k as well so that's another bonus. Buying the G9 is simply a dumb consumer purchase. It's not even going to retain value used like a NIO does ...

@@stefanospap6288 markup on exports, as I understand, may be up to local distributors. In china, the G9 was priced not to sell. BTW, NIO is not priced to sell well in china either. Their sale volumes are disappointing, both nio and xpeng. they better do well in the international markets.

@@qilu2004 I don't think you are seeing the whole picture. NIO nor XPENG are demand constrained. They are going through supply issues.

xpeng is behind now

i think Finland is like Really Cold?

@@vorlon81 it's just as cold as norway or sweden, where they happily sell their cars :D

@@MKVD true but what better way to hide from prying 👀 , a place just as cold as ur customers without the scrutiny 😎

It IS Tesla Autopilot. (Bootleg version)

@@rogerstarkey5390 It's way better than Tesla's dumb cruise control lol all Chinese companies are on level 4 or level 5 already while Tesla is still bluffing about being stuck on level 2.

With NIO you can swap an entire battery in about 5 minutes. :)

The price of this car is 300,000 to 400,000 yuan in China. It is a medium and large SUV with two versions of cruises: 570km and 650km.

BYD's Dolphin Car is Suitable for You

perhaps not but a Jaguar F-Pace driver might prefer one over a Land Rover because it offers EV performance, great range and it passes the "labrador-in-the-back" test and just because it's not a Land Rover, Audi or BMW.

Whilst I like it I’ll still be driving a Range Rover until they make the new fully electric one too expensive for me to have no choice

😂 xpeng vtols may make it happen

@@malcolmlane-ley2044 As opposed to the non expensive gas powered Range Rover? In the US the lowest trim Range Rover starts just above 100k USD. This G9 starts at like 45k, and tops out at 65k.

I worry we will of JLR don't come up with a proper full EV before either this or the US Rivian reach our shores.

It was the camera.

Yes.but It can be fully charged for an hour with fast charging.