Xiaomi SU7 ultra deliveries & reviews

[chun]

Since this car has been discussed quite a lot on this forum, and many claims of it never coming to production with that power and configuration, I thought it might be appropriate to post some reviews of it, as the car has started shipping to customers since early March/ late Feb:

The car comes as standard with the biggest carbon fiber brake discs in any production car (430mm), and with the same akebono brake calipers used by porsche for the taycan turbo (6 pistons front, 4 back). Taycan turbo S does come with 10 pistons front however.



The review below includes track driving:



Neither of these reviews seem to include the "racing package", but Xiaomi does offer one for people that intend to track the car, combined with in-depth control over battery temprature and performance, with manual switches for battery pre-cooling for track use:

For enthusiasts who crave ultimate performance, Xiaomi SU7 Ultra offers "Racing Package" to choose from. It includes Bilstein® EVO R for Ultra coilover shock absorbers, ENDLESS® high-performance brake pads, Pirelli® P ZERO™️ fifth-generation high-performance tires, an additional set of Pirelli® P ZERO™️ TROFEO RS semi-slick tires, 21-inch U-shaped forged wheel hubs, carbon fiber rear wheel arches, a 1.7㎡ carbon fiber roof, and more.

Additionally, they are offering as an option the hood and ventilation system used by the test car to achieve the nurburing record.

Car comes as standard with most technologies you'd expect of a high performance car: torque vectoring, dual-chamber air springs paired with high-performance adaptive dampers, active rear defuser, etc.

The car is powered by CATL Qilin 2.0 battery (93.7 kw). As one of the most powerful mass-produced battery packs available, it delivers a maximum discharge rate of 16C and a maximum discharge power of 1330kW. When the power is only 20% left, the discharge power can still reach 800kW. The highest charging rate is 5.2C (520kw), enabling 10% to 80% charging in just 11 minutes. The CLTC range reaches 630km

More details on specifics of the car: https://www.mi.com/global/discover/article?id=4328

The car uses ready made of the shelf, foreign mostly, components (mostly - motors are in-house developed), including Italian Alcantara®, which makes the price of 70k even more impressive, as it is achieved with little of the vertical integration typical of Chinese manufacturing. This does however make this car one of the most expensive chinese EVs on the market.

I would say quite a successful first car, first EV and first EV motor developed in-house, all developed in 1 to 2 years, and already on the road.

 

[Mr.Smith]

I wish there was a way to get one to the US, not under show and display, but to put miles on it.
For the performance, it's cheap

 

[Scandinavian]

Very impressive how quickly they have updated the weak points on the first release. Maybe these massive ceramic discs are an overkill, but they seem to have addressed the issue of overheating. How they can price the car so aggressive is another question, and no idea on what the company results are like. Would be very interesting to see these cars onnormal road use now.

I feel one should not in any way dismiss the progress of Chinese EV’s. We made that mistake with Japanese cars in the 70’s and 80’s.

And now Xiamo start to recruit experienced German engineers for a development center in Europe!

https://apple.news/AJD6JNcx_RE6Vptzh6MqnTA

 

[chun]

How they can price the car so aggressive is another question, and no idea on what the company results are like. Would be very interesting to see these cars onnormal road use now.

First production run was not making any profit, talking about SU7 to SU7 MAX, not SU7 ultra.
But after the first production run, all models were returning profit according to Xiaomi talking to investors.

As for this specific car, the ULTRA, when announced, the car was announced for 110k, but when they opened orders for the car, it was prices at 70k, a massive 40k less.

This is a common strategy in China, announcing cars at a higher price and then selling them for a lower price, to give the feeling of "over delivering". However, this is usually done with 3-6k difference in price, not 40k. So some are speculating that SU7 ULTRA is actually a 110k car, sold at a big loss. Which could be true, as for Xiaomi it is much harder to achieve competitive prices, as they don't have much vertical integration, compared to BYD for example.

One thing is for sure, the car is paying for itself in marketing. The car become an overnight star in China, and is the talk of the country, being considered first super car out of china (the BYD Yangwang U9 delivered very little cars, 100 units, at a too much high price for china - 200k+ ). You could compare it to the inital fame of the Cybertruck in USA, SU7 ULTRA has the same sort of fame in China right now.

Xiaomi is also set to release in 2025 3 trims of their 2nd car ever, an EV SUV, inspired by Ferrari Purosangue; top model for now being close to 700hp; with a 4th trim with triple motors coming next year with similar performance to SU7 ultra.

They are moving blazing fast at making cars, and they are delivering very competent cars.

One criticism Xiaomi cars get in china is about their self driving, being very safe and assertive, not taking any risks in traffic and driving like a grandma - which doesn't fit the whole supercar vibe; compared to other better self-driving systems in china, best one being from Huawei.