Just watched Robert Llewelyn reviewing another boring SUV.
A very big boring Chinese SUV.
And it's electric - at least in Australia and the UK it will be - they have a hybrid version in China which gives Robert an excuse to be snidey about fossil fuel burners.
Anyway, here's the video:
It's going to be a Deepal in Oz and a Changan over here - doesn't seem to be any logic in the naming. But it won't be anything in the US because they aren't getting it.
The video title is, "Why Is This Super Cheap Luxury SUV coming to OZ & UK but NOT USA?!?"
Despite the capitals and exclamation marks, they don't go on to answer the question.
But it's probably something to do with Elon not wanting the competition.
The stand-out bit of the video for me though was about four minutes in when Robert casually dropped in to the story that the car was recording and filming everything that was said in it and around it!
What!?
Someone in China is listening in to everything.
I'm hoping that this is just because it is a press car for the Australian launch and they are trying to gather as much insight and opinion as possible - and they must have been up front about it or he wouldn't have known about it.
But what if the Chinese government have this installed in all Chinese cars? Robert wasn't sure where the recording devices were. Do I need to take a closer look at my 5 year old Volvo? Although that was built in The US so hopefully not.
Well just to be on the safe side, that President Xi seems like a really decent chap.
