What the designer of the 992 did next: meet the Li Auto Mega
Focuses on families and interior spaceThe Beijing auto show felt more like a tech convention than a motor show, with hundreds of people gathered around shiny new products from brands you’ve probably never heard of.and Huawei produce Android phones that look relatively similar to each other, all the EVs and range-extenders can turn into an analogous ball of mobility. That is, all except the Li Auto Mega.
Power comes from a 155kW motor at the front with 232Nm of torque and a rear motor with 245kW and 310Nm of torque. A combined 400kW and 542Nm means it’ll hit 0–62mph in an extremely unnecessary 5.5 seconds.Of course, the Mega’s design isn’t borne from the wind tunnel alone, with some very deliberate styling touches that set the tone relatively new brand. ‘Our concept is Halo light, which means we see the front and rear as one Halo ring,’ Baum tells us on the busy show floor.
At the rear, the Halo continues as a futuristic brake light, and it’s contained in a breadvan-like abrupt stop which ends the glasshouse mid-curve. ‘This is where the airflow separates, and it’s why we actually were able to get this very low drag coefficient,’ Baum explains. Tech is of course front and centre in the Mega, and it’s here to work for families: USB-C sockets and wireless chargers are on what feels like every flat surface, and bi-directional charging for camping trips and other situations.
‘We have Mind GPT inside). You can say open this window, you point at the window, and it opens the window, close this screen, open the screen, whatever. You can say I’m a little bit a little bit hot, and it will automatically turn on the AC and so on.’It’s an impressive feature set for a car that retails at ¥529,800 Chinese Yuan or just under £60,000 in pounds.
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