On February 20, car blogger @42 Garage exposed a new set of spy photos of Xiaomi cars.
Judging from the photos exposed this time, Xiaomi cars are still in the stage of heavy camouflaged engineering test vehicles, and it can be determined that the car adopts a sedan shape, equipped with lidar, and the layout is the same as the ideal L9, which belongs to the watchtower type.
It is worth noting that the vehicle on the spy photo has a very long nose, longer than the average pure electric vehicle, so bloggers speculate that Xiaomi cars may choose pure electric and "plug-in hybrid (including range extension)" two power versions.
Although the interior has been exposed this time, because it is an engineering test car, it has little reference value, and it can be speculated that it will also be equipped with a large-sized screen to create a technological atmosphere.
Just last month, the network leaked the design renderings of the so-called Xiaomi car MS11, from the renderings, the Xiaomi car is a coupe shape, the front face is a closed design, the roof is equipped with lidar, and the brake vents under the headlights show that the car's sporty performance may not be weak.
The vehicle adopts hidden door handles, does not use the latest electronic mirrors, the roof is an integrated canopy, perhaps equipped with borderless doors, the wheel hub is petal-shaped, and the middle of the wheel hub clearly shows that Xiaomi cars will use the "MI" logo updated by Xiaomi in March 2021.
In response to this matter, Wang Hua, general manager of the public relations department of Xiaomi Group, responded that it was indeed a leak of the design documents confidential by the second-level supplier, but the supplier was only a supplier for mold proofing, and the leaked documents were very early design drafts of the bidding process, not final documents, and the supplier that caused the leakage was fined 1 million yuan, and the parties were seriously dealt with.