Wealthy Chinese businesspeople love to waft around in traffic in the , and the local market has . For starters, it’s electric, mostly for noise reasons, is than we are here in the U.S.
market. Most importantly, however, it’s a van. Vans are just the best shape to fit six adults in comfort.
This van, the Zeekr 009, is a damn big one, and it’s exciting enough that it . To most Americans, China is synonymous with cut-rate, cheap, poor-quality knockoff garbage, but that’s largely because that’s the kind of shit Americans buy and demand from Amazon, Temu, and Alibaba. One side effect of outsourcing all of the world’s manufacturing to China over the last forty years is that China has gotten really fucking good at manufacturing.
And we’re falling behind. In addition to looking like the ultimate lux extension of Ford Flex development, the Zeekr 009 has plenty of go to add to the show. Based on the same architecture (Geely’s SEA 1 platform) as and , there’s plenty of exciting stuff to get worked up about.
While not exactly a fun-to-drive machine, as it’s mainly a passenger-based experience, the Zeekr does offer up to 778 horsepower of all-wheel drive oomph. Is there a single American automaker around today that could build and sell a large people carrier with Rolls-Royce quality and comfort and also Hellcat-beating speed? When was the last time Cadillac or Lincoln could claim that high of praise? Zeekr has only been around as an all-electric premium sub-brand of Ge.