The 1,548 hp of the Xiaomi Su7 Ultra are so wild that the brand wanted to send you to a circuit to examine you. That or takes away 600 hp

A rival for Porsche and for the Tesla Model S with 1,548 hp of power but much cheaper than them. That was what Xiaomi sold us during the presentation of the Xiaomi Su7 Ultrathe most powerful and crazy version of its first electric car.

During their long placed, from Xiaomi they did not stop repeating each and every sections in which the Chinese brand surpassed US and German rivals. Among the Figures More prominent, those of Lei Jun presumed to beat the Porsche Taycan GT Turbo, the most powerful version of the German electric. Specifically, they spoke in the following terms:

The dementeial power figures and their good circuit benefits, highlighting their record achieved in nürburgring nordschleifethey managed to put the “Everything Sold” poster with the most radical version of this Chinese car in record time.

In the first ten minutes after opening the reservations, 7,000 orders were recorded. The company hoped to put 10,000 units on the market throughout the year but the reception has overflowed all kinds of forecasts to the point that in the second -hand market its price has shot.

What did not know who bought the car is that they could not enjoy 1,548 hp. At least if they did not pass a series of tests.

The brand has had to go back.

I take 600 hp

They explain in Car News China that the surprise has reached users when the company activated the 1.70 update of its electric car. Overnight, who had agreed to pay the more than 70,000 euros that the starting car costs to disappear more than 600 hp.

The Xiaomi Su7 Ultra has arrived in two versions. Both have the celebrities 1,548 hp But the Nürburgring version is the one that is configured as a two -seater because inside there are antivuelco bars that improve the rigidity and another series of specific components for circuit. Hence the price increase.

In this latest version, special attention was given to sell it as the specific circuit after Several clients had problems With less radical versions. After exhausting their brakes, more than one knew what happened if you were stopped at very high speeds.

Xiaomi’s solution was to lift a firewall. With the aforementioned update, the car went on “only” 900 hp of power. And, in addition, it activated a 60 -second wait since the output system was activated from standing (to check its acceleration in 0 to 100 km/h) with the aim that customers did not activate it at traffic lights. In both cases, the company alleged security reasons.

Who wanted to unlock these functions had to Demonstrate in circuit They were prepared for it. The company disabled these restrictions if the driver exceeded a return to a circuit below a specific time. This is what Xiaomi called “classification mode”, according to Carscoop.

However, they explained in Car News China that the company has had to reverse the criticisms of the drivers and has returned the 648 hp of power that it had capped by software. “We appreciate the passionate comments of our community and we will guarantee better transparency in the future,” they have assured from the company in words collected by the medium.

According to Car News ChinaXiaomi understood that those 1,548 hp should only be available in circuit, with the right tires and in the right hands. However, the great attraction when selling the car has been, from the beginning, that magical thousand and a half cv of power CV.

Although Xiaomi has been the last company to carry out a Downgrade In the power of your electric car, it is not the last. Mercedes has played with the idea of ​​subscribing to enjoy all the power of its electric cars. The German company proposed a payment of $ 100 per month to enjoy an improvement in the delivery of the motor torque of its most radical versions between 20 and 24%.

And Mercedes is not the first to do something similar. Bugatti for years that forces to introduce a second key to unlock the entire potential of his Bugatti Veyron and Chiron. A more elegant and exclusive formula than the one applied by Xiaomi and Mercedes but that, in the background, hides the same as the two previous cases: a car that has been capable of all the power.

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