The Yangwang U8 is the automotive of the second in China. With its huge dimension, luxurious inside and a supremely highly effective range-extended electrical powertrain, it doesn’t need for a lot. However there will likely be folks for whom simply being the brand new vitality 4×4 to finish all new vitality 4x4s isn’t fairly sufficient.
Concern not, as a result of at Auto Shanghai this week, BYD’s luxurious offshoot will unveil the final word U8, broadly tipped to be known as the U8L. Yangwang has launched the primary pictures of the mammoth SUV and actually nothing else, however we are able to spot a number of modifications.
The “L” a part of its rumoured identify refers back to the prolonged wheelbase, as evidenced by the lengthened rear doorways. The rear overhang additionally appears to be like to have been stretched, hinting at the truth that the U8L is not going to solely provide extra second-row legroom but in addition the choice of a 3rd row of seats, much like the also-ginormous Land Rover Defender 130.
Different modifications embrace the elimination of the exterior spare tyre (presumably to make the U8L a trite much less cumbersome to park) and an octagonal “protect” design for the massive alloy wheels (we are able to solely assume the designers have no idea what the Umbrella Company is). The usual U8’s distinctive strakes aft of the wheel arches have additionally been smoothened out for a extra refined look.
Once more, no info on the automotive has been launched simply but, however one can count on the U8L to have the choice of both six or seven seats, the previous including captain’s chairs befitting of the automotive’s flagship standing. The mechanicals are additionally prone to have been left unchanged – 4 electrical motors discharging 1,196 PS (880 kW) and 1,280 Nm of torque, juiced by a 49.05 kWh Blade lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery and a 2.0 litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol generator.
Yangwang quotes a pure electrical vary of 180 km and a complete vary of 1,000 km of the usual U8, each on China’s ridiculously lenient CLTC cycle; count on each figures to be decrease for the presumably heavier U8L. The automotive comes with BYD’s DiSus-P Hydraulic Physique Management suspension and is able to tank turns, driving on three tyres if one in every of them suffers a blowout and even floating on water.
GALLERY: Yangwang U8 at Auto China 2024
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