On January 17, the 26th day of the Lunar New Year, car blogger @Not Zheng Xiaokang broke the news on Weibo that Lei Jun personally tested Xiaomi cars.
There are two photos exposed this time, one of which can clearly see that Lei Jun is driving a camouflage test vehicle, driving on the road, and the following convoy is behind; The other is a lot of people around two parked cars, presumably engineers doing related work.
According to the surrounding environment, this should be Xiaomi car in the extreme cold test and calibration, this link is also an essential process before the mass production of the car, but unexpectedly, Lei Jun personally went into battle, no wonder some netizens praised Lei Jun as a "real model worker".
In addition, it can also be seen from the test car that the first car that Xiaomi will launch is positioned as a coupe, using a four-door design, the ground clearance is not high, with a long nose, a slip-back design, and the side shape is somewhat similar to the Porsche Taycan, and the lidar on the roof indicates that it has a higher level of driving assistance capabilities.
Overall, the style of Xiaomi's first car is relatively smooth, but affected by the back shape, the overhead space of the second-row passengers in the car is afraid to be affected, of course, this is also a problem that all rollers, including the back SUV, must face.
Previous news, according to late latepost reports, Xiaomi's first car is a mid-size sedan (internal code Modena Modena), divided into two versions, Xiaomi's internal discussion of the scheme is: one version is positioned in the range of 260,000-300,000 yuan, and the other version is more than 350,000 yuan.