The Xiaomi SU7 has taken China by storm since it was revealed last year, and now it’s time for the sophomore album. This is the tech giant’s long-rumoured SUV, now confirmed to be called the YU7, revealed way ahead of its slated debut in either June or July 2025.
From the images provided, the YU7 takes much of its design DNA from its sedan sibling, utilising similar tapered headlights, trapezoidal air intake (replete with body-coloured inserts), sweeping roofline, large rear diffuser and C-shaped taillights that are joined at the bottom.
This being an SUV, you of course get black body cladding (with distinctive angled cutouts in the wheel arches to create a “rifled” look), along with more pronounced front fender vents. The overall look is less Porsche Taycan doppelgänger and more junior Ferrari Purosangue – an impression aided by the muscular front and rear haunches, fast rear windscreen rake and low roof.
While Xiaomi has yet to provide any information whatsoever, the car has already appeared on China’s ministry of industry and information technology (MIIT) website with some preliminary specs. Car News China reports the car will measure 4,999 mm long, 1,996 mm wide and 1,600 mm tall, making it two millimetres longer, 33 mm wider and 160 mm taller than the SU7, while retaining the same 3,000 mm wheelbase.
The car will also be available with dual electric motors that push out a total of 690 PS (508 kW), making it more powerful than the flagship “base” (read: non-Ultra) SU7 Max. It will also utilise a CATL nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) battery of unspecified capacity. Expect it to be larger than the SU7 Max’s 101 kWh unit if it’s to match that car’s CLTC-rated range of 800 km.
Adding a second model will help Xiaomi reach even greater heights when it comes to sales. Since its launch in the Middle Kingdom in March, the company has delivered a whopping 112,516 SU7s as of last month. No wonder it has had to raise its sales forecast from 100,000 to 130,000 this year alone.
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chinese purosangue/toyota crown suv
reminds me of Landwind that copied Macan and Evoque cars in China and was laughingstock. Chinese cars even they hire the best designers, still copy paste because they want to look like real cars.
can chinamen come out with anything original?
China mindset is simple.. why waste time designing a totally new design when the main objective is to make money, and what the simplest way of making money other than copy existing people favorite designs, do it with low cost and sell it alot cheaper because volume sales is king.
I like Lor Mee more than Xio Mee