I read good review about Vinfast VF8 from some US publication for example the Engaget The Detroit Bureau so I prefer to test the car by myself . I am intelligent to have my own opinion. I don't want others people decide and think for me .
Don't worry, test first with the newest of VF8 firmware and full account to control everything. Durable with 5 star NCAP ASEAN test Steel Chasis - Weight 2600kg. I've seen VF8 Driff. Oh men ! So good.
I have been driving a VinFast VF8 Plus in San Diego since March 4 and loving the car every minute. I have gotten many compliments from both ICE and EV, including Tesla, drivers. The car is continuously going through software upgrades as there are still a few minor problems which are correctable. Lots of warning messages which might be unnecessary but I know in time, those will be smoothened out. I have read those bad reviews on the car and some of those are quite unfair, in my opinion. Take the complaint on the cabin temperature, for example. One person complained that every time the power is on from off, it was set to 80 degrees! Well, the car has profile setup that driver must log in everything he/she enters. The profile remembers your seat, mirror.. settings, including your preferred cabin temperature. In the case of this reviewer, he did not set up a profile and was using, my guess, a "Guest" profile which someone else set to 80 degrees previously. No wonder he ended up with that setting everything he drove the car! Something like this could be explained away by asking a VinFast employee during that event but no, it was reported as a nuisance against the car! Is this a valid and unbiased review? You decide!
@@purplenaturellc733 I think you are more DOA than VinFast. Battery leasing scheme has never been used for the North American market (although I would prefer to have it, as a customer).
Have you been driving and experiencing it yet? i drove it 12,000km, the ride quality and feel are great. I gave up the mec e280 after driving the vf8, the vf8 gives an addictive feeling while driving it. Need but fair comment after actual experience.
While I don’t care about this brand, I would still be very skeptical about reviews that are THAT negative about a product. In dozens of situations, I’ve reviewed a car that was supposed to be horrible that wasn’t. I’ve also driven cars that were supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread that were very much overrated.
this is why i laugh at any ferrari guy who goes "bring back pininfarina" and it becomes incredibly obvious how little they know about the state pininfarina is in
Such a lie 😂😂😂 Vinfast use to have a company called VinSmart that makes smart phones and wanted to compete with Apple and Samsung. 😂😂 Now they are making EVs to compete with tesla with 70 percent of the range 😂😂😂 This company will go the way of Vin Smart and Vin Mart :)
VinFast started making previous generation ICE BMW and GM cars in Vietnam for Vietnam only under license since 2017. These are their first BEVs. They are pivoting to BEV only.
So far, all the info from those articles was from the very early production models or even pre-production models that came to the US last year and they just brought it back with some updated numbers recently and make it breaking news.
I’m Vietnamese but I gotta slide the country pride aside, and be criminally honest that Vinfast still has a lot to improve, their cars are unfinished and far from being competitive enough.
I think maybe it's the first Vietnamese vehicle for sale in the US.. I remember how pathetic the first Hyundais were so I'll wait to see what happens in the next 5 or 10 years..
Nothing is prefect from the beginning. Reputation like Tesla now has also spent more Than 10 years to assert it'self ..!! Although recently still had to Recall Hundreds of thousands of Vehicle..!! Because it's so nice l get bullied by many guys
mind you! Vinfast is already at loss selling the cars at this price in America. The price in their home country is on par or even higher than in overseas markets, while imported cars in Vietnam are multiple times more expensive than overseas.
It looks like a soup of so many other cars. There is absolutely nothing special or interesting about the aesthetic and the driving experience seems to be awful. Keep it simple.
I'm really starting to get tired of these car designs where it looks like the company couldn't decided between two completely different ideas and ultimately just mashed them together.
It's rare for the automotive press to be so unanimous in panning a new car this aggressively. And the complaints are all largely unified too. Seems like VinFast just isn't ready for prime time. Oh well.
Or the industry is trying to push out this new comer lol. If they’re so bad and have no reputation then why bother spending so much effort and money to bring negative attention to this brand? Time will tell.
@@Krasnoye158 ...? Press has been invited to try the VF8 on the basis they were going to write about the cars for their respective publications. That's how press launches work. The onus is on VinFast to not build a shitty car, not on the press to not say mean things. So stop dickriding.
@@ASpectreOfSorts press was invited a year ago folks, did it take them a year to produce a review? I don’t think so. There is some trigger event that made them all write about this at the same time, but weirdly no one is mentioning about it in the press.
@@Krasnoye158 There absolutely isn't.... the initial drives in Vietnam were in cars not representative of (a) the cars the U.S. market were getting or (b) effectively the latest version of the VF8. And all the reviews dropped at the same time because....that's how media embargoes work. Not everything is some fucking grand conspiracy lmao.
191 miles, door panel that wants to come off, hard flat seats, meh design, crap suspension, awful controls... wow. And they're asking how much?! Worst car off the year
Was driving behind a trailer full of Vinfast 8 cars on the freeway in Los Angeles yesterday. They could have been anything and absolutely nothing stood out other than the V-shape trim around the logo. And to think Pininfarina designed this car! This brand needs to stand out more because it has a lot of potential.
I know this was 2 months ago, I just did a review and test drive in Toronto July 29. Nothing in the inside EV review on opinions is correct and I wonder now about ulterior motives. The inside is much better than the I5 and EV6 even the highest trims. As a matter of preference I liked the HUD and a bit more physical buttons. I used the voice command for lots of things and it worked perfectly. I give them the mirror adjust, and I asked about the reset settings when the car is turned off and they said if you setup a profile all your setting are saved under your profile.
Comes out to be around 78.5 MPGe . That's kinda inefficient. Almost 25% less efficient than a Model X. Many of these new EVs need to have better numbers. They can cost more to operate than an ICE vehicle when publicly charged. And forget public fast charging: you can pay up to 2x the cost compared to ICE vehicles. I've experienced this firsthand when I had the eTron as a loaner. The cost definitely caught me by surprise. Those MPGe numbers are inflated and don't do a good job as a comparison to the conventional MPG ratings. Do your research and calculations if you wanna get an EV so you know what to expect
Everyone is forgetting one thing the VF8 is a 5700 lbs car. It is constructed from steel and it is easier to repair compared to Tesla and others using aluminum. aluminum body requires special techniques and equipment to repair and the cost is sky-high. Would you pay $3000 to repair a steel body car or $20000 to repair an aluminum Tesla?
@Nguyễn Bá Tòng Do you know how to read? Or is fanboying over Vinfast preventing you from comprehending? I made a point about efficiency in electric cars in general, not Vinfast specifically, and even dinged the Audi eTron for the same problem. Price has nothing to do with effiency. It's design. Plenty of expensive cars, even those more expensive than Model X, have terrible effiency including Rivian, Audi, Mercedes, BMW, etc.
Pininfarina design - do u believe them , they just want to make a quick buck , buying parts left n right , no r&d , no test…ea batch will have a different issue
This car is having a lot of problems. In hot weather, the car loses air conditioning when the battery temperature rises. The engine stalls in the middle of the road. The company has no solutions to fix it. Their service workshop is full.
If you want a video idea I suggest looking at the Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo Evo 2 (that car specifically) I think it gives big hints as to what the next Huracan is going to look like.
Have been noticing alot of straight Led lighting. Has to be a cost cutting measure because square circuit boards are the cheapest shape. Crazy shape Led running lights equals specialty circuit boards
VinFast has its own design language. The design GEN is a V-wing symbol like BMW that cannot remove the kidney-shaped air intake or the waterfall steering wheel of Rolls-Royce. V for VinFast, V for Việt Nam and V for "vương lên"(rise up). You will immediately recognize a VinFast in the night with this V light. With their first models, VinFast Lux A and Lux SA seem to have opened the trend of LED full line front and back in the car of other brands. In addition, the LED line also helps to ensure safety when people do not confuse the lights of car to be 2 lights of a motorcycle and run between them. In addition to electric cars, VinFast also has buses EV, motorcycles EV, and electric bicycles in the future (with a prototype). You can refer to the discontinued VinFast petrol models such as VinFast Lux A, Lux SA, President, Fadil to understand their design language.
Agree...not an awful design but a touch generic. Hyundai Ioniq / Kia EV / Genesis are just 360 windmill dunking on the competition stylistic (The Ioniq 5 is simply such a distinctly styled vehicle with it's retro-futuristic lines and Vinfast needs to stand out. Pricing it the same price as the Hyundai Ioniq World Car of the Year / World EV of the Year is a recipe for closing up shop in the US and losing a TON of cash..
It's just very start of their first step. Heritage is made by long enough time... Hyundai's 50 year-old company and now they have started to consider their 'heritage'. It's too strict to expect something with heritage to Vietnam because they're just about to starting to build their history of the automotive industry.
@@billyjean2905 i mean other things that they could have incorporated in to the design that's from vietnamese culture, also because we're very young, we're not limited by normal automotive conventions.
If Vinfast pay you to do this Video then I have nothing to say to you. Otherwise, all these vinfast cars come from china which they couldn't either sell these cars domestically and internationally because they are very very bad quality and poorly design so what they gona do? Do you know the TPP program? They use VN as their back door they ship all these cars to VN change name remodify then ship them to US and other countries under totally different names. Secondly, in the comparison between Tesla and Vinfast: The pricing is very much the same but Tesla full charge can go up to 306 miles while Vinfast only go up to 170 miles. 4 miles per Kilowatts for Tesla while 1 mile per kilowatts for Vinfast the lifetime battery on Tesla is out performance the Vinfast, and thirdly but not last recently US highway safety board have been recall all Vinfast cars that have been shipped to US due to software mal-function....You want the truth I have gave you the truth go and see it for yourself.
