Chinese supercar with 1500 hp and R$ 400 thousand runs aground in stores
After the success of its electric sports car, Xiaomi decided to launch a version with more than double the power and price that scared away customers
Published on 2026-02-13 at 07:00 AM
Updated on 2026-02-19 at 09:00 PM
Xiaomi is a famous Chinese factory of electronic devices, I myself have had a Xiaomi cell phone, and took seriously the story that the automobile is a computer on wheels and launched a sports car about two years ago, the Xiaomi SU-7.
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I was there at the Beijing auto show when it was launched, safely in front of the booth to organize a crowd that wanted to see Xiaomi’s first automobile, a sports car with more than 600 horsepower and full of nine hours.
And it was super successful until Xiaomi decided to launch the Ultra version with 1548 horsepower, 350 km per hour top speed, sold there for more than 400 thousand reais. As a result, it is selling almost nothing.
