Let's not forget how China got here in the first place - by way of the largest sustained program of industrial espionage and IP theft in world history, all under the direction of the communist party in Beijing. One look at what China is doing to its neighbours in its territorial disputes should tell you everything about what their end goal is. It is an instrument of the CCP to project their power and gain regional and eventually world hegemony. The doors can also be opened and closed via the central infotainment touchscreen. There's even a batten-down-the-hatches mode to close them all at once.įrankly you have to be a little mad in the head to buy this over trusted and well-established brands given what the Chinese industrial complex is all about. Once in, you gently pull the handle and the door electrically closes. The rear seats are also electrically adjustable via buttons on the fold-down armrests and on the back of the centre console.ĭoors appear to be the new battleground of EV marketers, and with Zeekr, the tactic is to gently press the button space on the handle to make the door electrically open.

However, l eg room, as you might expect, given the 001's wheelbase, is very good. Where this doesn’t help so much is with rear head room, which is adequate for six-footers but nobody taller. The roofline also slopes down steeply at the rear, helping achieve the 001’s slippery drag coefficient of 0.23Cd. Utilising the SEA platform, Zeekr has minimised overhangs, and the car has a three-metre wheelbase – a generous figure that matches that of the Hyundai Ioniq 5. There's no doubt that the 001 is a head-turner, even in the rather nondescript purple colour of our test car.

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