My bad, i was looking at the petrol variant of that car. The EV looks slightly better, the grille of the ICE variant is beyond redemption.
Not my thing. Not because it’s chinese, it’s just.. a bit shite, isn’t it. A clone is a clone, it’s lazy. You can argue that cars nowadays all become somewhat similar, and that’s true – but that usually is in the pursuit of efficiency, of which there is simply only one reasonable path to optimum, so everything looks mostly similar (Tesla Model 3 and BYD Seal , for example – though i much prefer the Seal, visually).
This is copying/cloning a design. Particularly the boot shape is simply unmistakably deranged Rover. Copying design on purpose is naughty. When some random chinese manufacturer tried that with “cloned” Smart Fortwos in germany a few (many) years ago, authorities simply seized the entire load as it came off the Ro-Ro, to be crushed. Forgot what the car was called, but basically looked like a Smart Fortwo.
It’s like wearing a fake Rolex. Really says it all, in itself.
That’s my opinion though, of course that’s not omnipotent. I do think there are good looking chinese cars out there, be it the BYD Seal, MG HS, Omoda 9 etc – this one ain’t one of them, for me.
Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19, VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23
Current: Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
Next: we'll see what's available in 2028.