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The Xiaomi EV Thread
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Xiaomi drops the camo on the SU7 Xtreme - the Nürburgring lap war escalates
Horsepower is the easiest part when we talk about performance cars - especially the electric ones. You can bolt as much of it as you want into an EV, and it will feel heroic for the first three seconds on a racetrack. Then you arrive at the braking zone, feel two and a half tons of battery and steel pushing the front tires wide, and realize that physics cares very little about marketing. European automakers used to believe that Chinese brands could never figure out the second part of the corner - the actual going through it at speed. But watching Xiaomi SU7 Xtreme testing hard at Nürburgring suggests that those assumptions were completely wrong.
We first saw this hard-edged SU7 variant running laps in Germany back in October, wrapped in the swirly black-and-white camo. Now the disguise is gone, revealing a car that goes much deeper than a badge-and-sticker package. The centerpiece is a huge swan-neck rear wing that looks pulled straight from the Yangwang U9, hanging from the top of the blade where airflow is cleanest. Given how obsessed EV engineers are with reducing drag, I wouldn't be surprised if that rear wing had an active drag-reduction system (DRS) that flattens out when the driver pins it down the Döttinger Höhe straight.
The front aero work is just as serious - Xiaomi fitted a new front bumper with a deep lower splitter and cut a set of open louvers into the front fenders above the wheels. If you've driven fast over the crests of the Nordschleife, you know how air gets trapped inside the wheel wells at high speed. That creates front-end lift right when you need the nose to bite into the turn. Properly scary. Venting that high-pressure air out through the top of the fenders helps to push the front tires back into the tarmac. Finally, to clean up the turbulent air coming off those wide wheels, the front fenders cut sharply inward just ahead of the doors, and the rear arches are scalloped behind the rear wheels, exposing a wide cross-section of sticky track-day rubber wrapped around double-five-spoke alloys.
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Horsepower is the easiest part when we talk about performance cars - especially the electric ones. You can bolt as much of it as you want into an EV, and it will feel heroic for the first three seconds on a racetrack. Then you arrive at the braking zone, feel two and a half tons of battery and steel pushing the front tires wide, and realize that physics cares very little about marketing. European automakers used to believe that Chinese brands could never figure out the second part of the corner - the actual going through it at speed. But watching Xiaomi SU7 Xtreme testing hard at Nürburgring suggests that those assumptions were completely wrong.
We first saw this hard-edged SU7 variant running laps in Germany back in October, wrapped in the swirly black-and-white camo. Now the disguise is gone, revealing a car that goes much deeper than a badge-and-sticker package. The centerpiece is a huge swan-neck rear wing that looks pulled straight from the Yangwang U9, hanging from the top of the blade where airflow is cleanest. Given how obsessed EV engineers are with reducing drag, I wouldn't be surprised if that rear wing had an active drag-reduction system (DRS) that flattens out when the driver pins it down the Döttinger Höhe straight.
The front aero work is just as serious - Xiaomi fitted a new front bumper with a deep lower splitter and cut a set of open louvers into the front fenders above the wheels. If you've driven fast over the crests of the Nordschleife, you know how air gets trapped inside the wheel wells at high speed. That creates front-end lift right when you need the nose to bite into the turn. Properly scary. Venting that high-pressure air out through the top of the fenders helps to push the front tires back into the tarmac. Finally, to clean up the turbulent air coming off those wide wheels, the front fenders cut sharply inward just ahead of the doors, and the rear arches are scalloped behind the rear wheels, exposing a wide cross-section of sticky track-day rubber wrapped around double-five-spoke alloys.
Xiaomi drops the camo on the SU7 Xtreme - the Nürburgring lap war escalates
Xiaomi drops the camouflage on its track-focused SU7 Xtreme at the Nürburgring, combining wild aerodynamics with up to 2,027 hp to challenge the Porsche Taycan Turbo GT for the new lap record.
www.arenaev.com