Xiaomi’s YU7 Is an SUV-Sized Middle Finger to Tesla's Model Y

Another week, another Chinese electric car poised to deliver an extinction event to Western automakers. This time it’s Xiaomi, a Beijing-based tech firm best known for smartphones and the company behind the [Porsche Taycan-baiting SU7](https://www.wired.com/story/phone-maker-xiaomi-made-the-car-that-apple-couldnt/), which in late-2024 was so popular that Xiaomi increased its sales forecast three times in a matter of months. Now Xiaomi is back, and this time it has an [electric](https://www.wired.com/tag/evs-and-hybrids/) SUV up its sleeve. Resembling the lovechild of a Ferrari Purosangue and an Aston Martin DBX707 described down a patchy phone line, the YU7 hits all of the benchmarks you’d expect from an [EV in 2025](https://www.wired.com/story/the-17-best-evs-coming-in-2025/). All very impressive, but especially so when you consider the Chinese market price. The YU7 starts at 253,500 yuan, which is about $35,000 in the US—the exact price Tesla briefly achieved with its first-generation Model 3 in early-2019, before heading back up to the $40,000 mark. The Pro and Max versions of the Xiaomi YU7 are priced at 279,900 yuan ($39,000) and 329,900 yuan ($46,000) respectively, while Tesla’s Model Y starts at 263,500 yuan ($36,500). Meanwhile, Tesla has just [missed its own deadline](https://www.wired.com/story/theres-a-very-simple-pattern-to-elon-musks-broken-promises/) for putting more affordable cars into production. Despite canning its so-called Model 2, [the company said](https://ir.tesla.com/_flysystem/s3/sec/000162828025002993/tsla-20250129-gen.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) at the start of 2025: “Plans for new vehicles, including more affordable models, remain on track for start of production in the first half of 2025.” We’re into July now and still waiting. Read more: [https://www.wired.com/story/xiaomis-yu7-is-an-suv-sized-middle-finger-to-teslas-model-y/](https://www.wired.com/story/xiaomis-yu7-is-an-suv-sized-middle-finger-to-teslas-model-y/)

I dunno... given the styling, I'd say it's a middle finger to Porsche's Design and Legal departments.

The interesting part of this story, is how quickly they iterated on their first version to produce this one.

„Tesla will not fail because Tesla is a tech-company, not a legacy car maker.“ Well… now what? 😆

Their SU7 is basically a ripoff of the Taycan so this checks out.

Xiaomi is not a car company. It is more of a marketing agency. The company is good at stealing from Apple, Uniqlo..:now Porsche and Tesla. They can only sell their stuff in China and third world countries bc of various IP issues. People are comparing shit to Apple literally

The cars are cheap bc they don’t have RD cost

I want this car

Xiaomi's entire China allotment has sold out for at least a year already.

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I hate the Chinese copying mentality as much as humanly possible, but saying their r&d is free is literally re*ded

Apple ripped off Xerox when they created the Mac. Microsoft ripped off Apple when they created Windows.

ferrari not porsche - [https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-purosangue](https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-purosangue)

wtf is xiaomi? Not a tech company? 😂

That’s what I was implying. Tesla bulls are always „but it’s a tech company, not a car maker.“ Now that argument has gone, too. Realistically had been gone since BYD entered the market, but Xiaomi is more widely considered a tech company.

unfortunately it's a tech company making cars... it's the myspace of car makers

It’s so good to be the underdog