Don't Imitate Porsche, Just Be Yourself - Xiaomi SU7 Review

hello and welcome to the telescope every week we'll bring you a fresh Insight from the biggest car market in the world today we are on a media test drive of the xiaomi su7 we're filming this on March the 19th about 9 days ahead of the actual launch we know everything about this car except for the price I'm going to have a go at the end of the video and experienced telescope viewers will know my guest normally are quite correct so you tell me when you're watching this video on March the 28th am I correct or not I think I need to reemphasize especially towards the International customers that this is the real car and when you're watching this video it's already started delivering to customers hands so it's not a concept study it's not a demonstration car it's the full production car I've already done an exterior first look on this car back in December last year so for my detailed opinion on the exterior design you can check out that video but I'll quickly summarize it's a very sporty battery electric Saloon on extremely traditional proportions the focus of today's video are the impressions of the inter and of course the driving Dynamics the interior of the su7 has got a little bit of performance car theater going on when you press the stter button look at how the dashboard rotate itself the steering wheel screams Porsche it looks feels and grips like a Porsche steering wheel because this car is quite cheap you might think that's a good thing I think this is a negative I'll come on to this at the end of the video you sit nice and low the a pillar is very thin from The View view point of the drivers the forward visibility is excellent this car has got a very low nose you notice it even more when you are sitting inside it's got two wheel archers pointing out where the two front wheels are the forward visibility has got a little bit of miden engine sports card feel to it that's how good it is and probably surprising for full battery electric vehicle in 2024 it's got many physical controls not just here you've got a role of physical controls but I need to emphasize this is a magnetically attached addon you can choose not to have this but I think it's nice that xiaomi gives the option to the users and that's a big feature of this car is how much you can customize this this mounting points here here here and here xiaomi will open the standard to the market and to its ecosystem to develop all kinds of add-ons they even designed quarter inch mounts on the driver side the passenger side and a center of the mirrors to Mount Your GoPros I quote the manufacturer's representative if you think that's the end of the ecosystem or you're wrong what the international audience may not know is xiaomi is so much more than just a phone company in China they make all sorts of things like the air conditioner behind me the curtain this ceiling light and every piece of Home Appliance you see in this sitting room we're on a xiaomi event so of course everything you see here are from xiaomi but I need to emphasize that especially towards the international audience that this is the real life scenario of many Chinese homes my mom's house is exactly like this the TV the wifi router the floor sweeper the smart speaker all among the bestseller if not the very best seller of their respective category and the best thing is they're all controlled by just one voice command when your phone your TV every piece of Home Appliances is already provided by xiaomi now of course comes the big one the car and you can control it from literally just about anywhere in your home in here is kind of the standard Affair the infotainment of course is silky smooth but the phone integration is next level here is not a carplay on steroids but the entire phone mirrored onto this screen full functionality 60 frames per second if you don't want your phone's mirrored image floating on top of the infotainment what you can do is pin any app straight onto the infotainment itself now it becomes an integrated part of the infotainment and of course it's still full functionality 60 frames per second this really is next level phone integration xiaomi's idea for the rear cabin entertainment are these iPad or Android tablet mounts it provides power it's connected to the infotainment you can control the seating the music the air conditioning whatever you want you can provide navigation tips and pin them straight to the infotainment screen now all of these are kind of expected when you consider xiaomi makes everything the car the phone the tablet what's unusual now is what's in front of me is not a xiaomi Android tablet but it's an iPad you can achieve everything I just said by just downloading an app through the App Store and your Apple ecosystem works perfectly with the xiaomi ecosystem the front seats are set to my driving position I'm 5'1 and you can tuck your feet into the bottom of the front seats you can see there are enough space but it's just not executive level let's call it that way you sit a bit low there's enough leg room and Headroom but you can see already from the exterior Design This is a car that's biased towards the front cabin and the driving experience in terms of practicality it's got a 100 liter plus Frank the shape is a bit weird but you can get a international carryon size luggage into this and a boot is 500 L plus so standard practice now the driving firstly the throttle pedal it's very similar to a model 3 it's heavy it's reassuring it tells you it's got a lot of performance but it's not difficult to modulate in low- speeed traffic I know that may sound contradictory on so many levels if not driven a model 3 but it really is like that so the xiaomi throttle pedal is similar to the best throttle pedal in my opinion electric vehicles and that's the model 3 I think that's no bad thing the steering in the com for mode at low speed is very light fingertip light I think you can do a U-turn just using one finger it's that light but once you build up to speed the difference in terms of steering we between different modes are not actually that different I've seen there's a beta track mode in the infotainment system it's got 10 stages of traction control it's got multiple levels of stability programs it's not open yet and right now at this moment in time it's still biased towards stability let's hope in future xiaomi can invite us back on a track to experience this full Dynamic capabilities we are traveling at 120 kph at the moment wind noise I think you can tell is very impressive especially for single layer glass the tire noise well I've heard a number of people say it's there's some tire noise I don't know what cars they're driving maybe they are driving Mercedes eqs is all day long but in my opinion it's already quite good so let's say the tire noise divides opinion at a moment we're also on the highway cruise control of this car it can switch its own laye overtake C it's got liar all around camera vision and two Nvidia o-ring chips it says it will have nationwide um assisted driving coverage by the end of this year but that could also mean just a point to-point mode and this highway cruise control at the moment it's usable but it's not near the industry leading level let's put it that way the overriding the impression for me today is there's nothing particularly wrong with it I think you will be even more amazed if you are very experienced with cars you know how difficult it is you know how easy it is to mess something up in your first attempt in a road car in an electric vehicle in a smart electric vehicle I mean a lot of Legacy automakers mess it up but sh me this is a first car and it drives completely normal and I need to emphasize it's not me ioca good it's very good if it is possible to blindfold me while driving you can tell me this is the latest Audi electric vehicle and I wouldn't be able to tell anything that's significantly not Audi's level it's that good it's a very complete experience I know it will sound incredible it doesn't sound very convincing if you're watching this video for the first time and you know nothing about xiaomi's effort in the past three years trying to make this car but I will say it's a very sincere effort and my last doubt on this car is that there must be something wrong with the driving Dynamics it's been proven wrong it's a very very complete car when a phone company makes its first attempt on a car you expect them to make some working mistakes you expect something to be fundamentally wrong to be honest that's my expectation coming into this test but I didn't find any it looks okay if if not 100% original the interior feels solid and of course xiaomi knocked it out of the park in terms of connectivity and the ecosystem and the biggest surprise to me it drives really well it feels every bit as sporty as the Tesla Model 3 but so much more refined those are all quite boring words but I think I need to put you into perspective when the rest of the world are scaling back on EVs and xiaomi a phone company comes out with this in 3 years and I'm struggling to find anything that's particularly wrong with it that in itself is nothing short of a miracle the car we have here today is the su7 max it's the 800 volt dual motor with the big battery we're expecting this car to cost around $42,000 the base model with just a 400 volt smaller lfp battery we're expecting that to be around $30,000 by the time you're watching this the price would be out so tell us if I'm right or not on closing thoughts I think I need to address the elephant in the room and that's its lack of originality in design I think that's a great shame because this is a very solid eeve it's much more solid than many Legacy auto makers first attempt on electric vehicles if you Benchmark this against all of the EVS that's coming out in 2024 it will be very close to the very very top but I also understand why some critics will easily label this car as a Porsche copycat its proportions on the exterior design especially the steering wheel I mean there are ways to design a sporty Good Feeling steering wheel with without being that similar to the Porsche steering wheel as I mentioned this car starts at $30,000 and this car we see here today is $42,000 some people could forgive it for being that similar to Porsche because of the pricing but I think it should be its own thing it's the xiaomi car it's the first car in the world made by a phone company it's already World leading in connectivity and has its own ideas for ecosystem and it's so solid just being a car it should not be a cut price replacement on an imitation of anything let's hope the xiaomi car can find its own identity in its second iteration that is all from the telescope today if you enjoyed this video keep watching keep subscribing more videos coming along very soon

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Published: Fri Mar 29 2024