Really wonder with the coil over, splitters and adjustable diffuser if this thing can legitimately be driven on the street. Building a fast racer isn’t hard, but being able to do a fast time and drive it home is.
Chinese Electric Sedan Just Broke Rimac’s Nurburgring EV Record
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Likely being EV takes a lot of the idiosyncrasies of typical race cars out of the equation, though if It's insulation is stripped out to save weight it may be a bit loud and ride hard over the road.
I don’t normally post things like this but this is at least the 3rd time involving BYD and a ship.
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/06/11/ship_electric_fire/
Things like this can happen to any ship Carrying cars but it appears to be “quite rare” involving western, especially US based Vehicles and after not looking hard there seems to be a theme with Chinese transport and these are presumably new.
The world and China especially need non-flammable batteries, I think sodium are more in step with their build quality.
EV drag racing, even during the dark ages with lead acid and series wound motors has been around the diy community since the late 80’s
It’s actually extremely easy to make a very fast accelerating EV, especially one that goes in a straight line with even primitive technology.
Going far with reasonable cost, weight and especially reliability is the tough part.
Teslas early model S for example had good power but an unacceptable lifespan for the main drive motor.
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I do like the headline, a $73k Chinese car sets a nurburgring record. meanwhile I can clearly see a race cage in the footage.
These things are so modified that they're nowhere near the price tag of the car one can actually buy.
Are people truly this gullible?
These things are so modified that they're nowhere near the price tag of the car one can actually buy.
Are people truly this gullible?
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It GM and Ford have a hard time pumping out reliable BEVs with minimal recalls, how do you think the Chinese will do???
Not very well!
Not very well!
I didn’t watch the video, but that doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.
To be fair to the Chinese, Porsche Taycan nurburgring run also shows the roll bar cage and gutted interior with the exception of the front.
Not exactly what I would call a factory car. I remember Tesla being called out for running a modified Plaid.
..or pass a crash test, and cover it under warranty, and support it for 50-100K miles.
Totally cool to cook your running gear when you get to throw it away at the end of the session because you've heated the pack into permanent damage.
This doenst seem to be a production car. From the article - Xiaomi has tested a bonkers trackday special prototype of the SU7.
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Unless the components are fully Chinese sourced it’s not a true Chinese auto. Brakes suspension tires
Well, by that logic, there are probably zero American cars. Or probably any nationality.
Realistically it's probably higher content than nearly anything else. Look at the Chinese parts content on US made vehicles.
If there were a Munroney on it it would likely be a high % Chinese.
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Every car trying to brake Nurburgring records is highly modified, costing drastically more than it's roadworthy namesake. So signaling out this effort is sour grapes.
