2024 HiPhi X - Best The Tesla Model X?

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HiPhi X review: China’s gullwing-doored electric SUV
What am I looking at here?
It’s the HiPhi X, a large, luxurious and tech-packed SUV with gullwing rear doors as its party piece. It sits alongside a quicker, more performance-focused saloon as one of two key launch products from a fully electric start-up brand as it moves into Europe.
Yes, the story feels quite familiar: HiPhi’s first European employee even helped establish Tesla on our shores. Just to compound the parallels, this X is the tech party piece, but a smaller, cheaper HiPhi Y will provide the real sales opportunity when HiPhi’s British sales begin around 2025. There’s a script being followed, one might cynically observe.
Do I really pronounce it ‘hi-fi’?
You do. We’re not going to claim it’s an evocative brand name, but then how could it be? The company overarching HiPhi - ‘Human Horizons’ - is barely six years old. Start-ups rarely rise at such a rate of knots; in its native China, the X already accounts for a quarter of the sales in its segment.
Where the country once thought ‘West is best’ for its premium products - purchasing Mercs and BMW on a whim - its younger drivers are growing up with more pride and patriotism when it comes to car buying.
Another Chinese electric SUV, then. What sets it apart?
Well, the doors. They’re different to a Tesla Model X’s falcon wings in that they’re split in two, the bottom half opening independently. You can drive with the roof panels aloft for ultimate peacocking, but only below 3mph. Not so fancy. They’re made entirely in-house under HiPhi’s own patent, and they’re accompanied by the usual claims of practicality and useability in an attempt to back up what’s surely their primary goal: wow factor.
Because boy, do cars in this corner of the market need a healthy dose of that. Its €109,000 entry ticket in Germany equates to around £95,000, which currently buys plenty of chunky crossovers with dual motors, a sub-4.0s sprint to 62mph and inch upon inch of glitzy touchscreen.
What’s the specs on the X?
Dual motors bring 590bhp and 605lb ft peaks, enough to hustle its circa 2.5 tonnes to 62mph in 3.9 seconds and onto a limited 124mph top speed. It fits roughly into the footprint of a Range Rover, albeit it’s a touch longer, wider and lower. There are four and six-seat versions, the former commanding another €14,000 on account of the more luxurious feel of its layout. It’s a car to be driven around in.
The six-seater is the cheaper, more practical choice, and adults can climb into the rearmost pair of seats with surprising ease. Having the roof panels open allows you to stride into the back with your head held high. They’re taught not to open in the rain, though, while the lower doors’ no-touch, proximity-sensor opening proved hard to get our heads around. We kept inadvertently standing right in their line of fire, pausing the whole process. Doing away with traditional door handles can sometimes feel like tech for tech’s sake.
And is that the case here?
Perhaps. There’s a touch of technological Buckaroo about the X, not least on its dashboard, where there are three separate screens. The driver gets a slim, relatively traditional instrument display - and thus speed readout - while there’s a central 17in portrait screen for most functions and another 11in landscape layout for the front passenger, who can watch videos without the driver being distracted.
We’ve driven a Chinese production car, with very little of this enabled for European use. A member of the HiPhi team even hopped in as our co-driver in lieu of a satnav. But if you like screens, it’s got ‘em. Even in place of the rear-view mirror.
Wasn’t Jaguar Land Rover doing that a few years ago?
It was, and several of the HiPhi folk introducing us to the car have decades of service at JLR on their LinkedIn profile. The speed of progress and less risk-averse nature of a Chinese start-up is what enticed them away.
And it’s in this context the X shines brightest. It drives well, but in our short test drive, without much razzmatazz. It feels every inch its weight, size and mechanical layout, behaving much like every other EV crossover with a similar Top Trumps card. Which - from a company that was little more than an etching on a Tsingtao coaster back in 2018 - does impress.
It handles corners well, ten degrees of rear wheel steer helping its bulk around pretty deftly, and the refinement is exemplary. Few EVs I’ve driven mask road noise as well as the X, this despite it riding on 22in wheels wrapped in reasonably hardcore Michelin tyres. JLR products were always good at cocooning their passengers. It appears the magic has headed East.
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[@BrianWo2517]

Looks much more better than Tesla X. Much more better Design and Quality. Good Job from Stuttgart Germany. 👍✌️

[@burkhardsattler5436]

DAS IST EIN TOLLES AUTO. DAS KÖNNTE MEIN NÄCHSTES AUTO WERDEN. ICH BIN BEGEISTERT.

[@vasohrysafi]

Πολύ όμορφο! Χαίρεσε καί μόνο που το βλέπεις! Ο κατασκευαστής είχε μεγάλη έμπνευση! Super!!!

[@amauriaparecidodepaula5557]

Simplesmente espetacular extraordinário maguinifico espetacular show parabéns pela apresentação é um carro dos sonhos.

[@davisonfelipe6612]

Não tenho palavras pra expressar sobre esse carro mds😮

[@jeffreyobrero8951]

Tesla got the best and ahead when it comes EV technology.

[@jlsam331]

Vas tan rápido con los movimientos de cámara que el vídeo marea. Se graba con más calma!!!

[@ojobee]

This car is dope

[@user-zz9ep1us4z]

很遺憾，這家（高合）車企已經快破產了，他在中國已經完全停工停產了，員工已經解散了，真的很可惜

[@michealmoore2960]

Fancy lights - how does that affect the drive, durability, or resale?

[@arielwinkler6358]

👍Auto Super, ale może zanim zrobisz recenzję następnego auta zapoznaj się z nim trochę żebyś chociaż drzwi umiał otwierać 😊Pozdrawiam.

[@karibean2007]

What is the music of the video??

[@robbyx9620]

Alles ist besser als Tesla 😂 Aber ganz im ernst. Die Karre ist echt geil. Man könnte glatt denken das es ein Concept Car ist. Was mich noch wundert ist das dieses Auto den deutschen TÜV Segen bekommen hat, bei den ganzen LED Lichtern. Wenn das ein Verbrenner wäre, würde ich schwach werden.

[@SpicyLatinoVlogs631]

Price please? El precio porfavor?

[@StefanHane-cb6lg]

What‘s the price of this fantastic car?

[@인과응보-h4g]

NO CHINA

[@HUSEYNOVCEMIL]

this company closed! where did the 2024 model come from?

[@DadEncyclopedia]

那個短小的鷗翼門，看起來像是小兒麻痺

[@marcmachin962]

3ème rangs on fait comment ????

[@user-qb2pv3ds2l]

Super ! Илон Макс, почему они еще не летают?!

[@Isaiah-t3u]

Can’t wait ❤

[@m.harundemirbas4571]

Harika ötesi bir makina 😢😢😢

[@DC15455]

AS LONG AS IT"S DURABLE LASTING YEARS .THE " CHINESE" ARE MAKING LOTS OF VERY NICE "CARS" .. WELL BOOM ..🙂

[@okayvision3413]

everyone else gets into big trouble. China shows us the future....

[@SaoudElfatini]

كم ثمن بالدلار

[@mixael7639]

Hi phi разорились !

[@paparrinafp5357]

Excelente 👌

[@user-yh3kg1vr1z]

Insane

[@frodeandersen1842]

They have stoped production and this company most likely goes bankrupt.

[@Lou-bg1xc]

Way, way, too bulky inside. Tesla, you should know better.

[@hirakegoma5955]

何処の車？

[@micom6082]

Wow 😮

[@mariostatile448]

Isn’t it bette4than Tesla.

[@Gökmen-h7l]

❤❤❤

[@yelvtuji2348]

HiPhi, this brand is going bankrupt.

[@ChrisSkyyy]

how u know this? because its chinese? look at byd great wall, they are all top brands

[@yelvtuji2348]

​@@ChrisSkyyy BYD is a different story. BYD is very popular but HiPhi recently has a very very poor sale in Chinese domestic market. In 2023, they just sold a few thousand cars in China. A few days ago, they are going to close their offline stores and advised their employees to "consider their future".🫠

[@happyowl7854]

Unfortunately, This brand is going bankrupt

[@yelvtuji2348]

​@ChrisSkyyy BYD is a different story. HiPhi recently has shut down their factory and just paid the basic salary for their employees.

[@ChrisSkyyy]

@@yelvtuji2348 oh okay. Sad. The cars looked nice.

[@madesumerta7766]

?

[@Ali-mohammadi]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@aliakpnar1760]

Ñe arababe❤

[@user-ov8fr6jr6l]

Банкрот ужо!

[@user-zz1km3gs2g]

高合汽車己經破產了停工停產

[@samtaverner5348]

😮😮😮😮❤❤❤

[@DJMURBENYI]

Hunes😢

[@Какдела-с9ь]

ЧТОНЕЯСНОБАЕЦТЫДУМАЕШКУДАОНПАШЕЛРАБОЧИЕЧТОНЕЯСНОЧТОВЫННУЖНЫТАКИЕЯСНОВАМОЛБЯСНИЛИ

[@McCrown1]

Nope

[@POVQUAY]

Every like this gets I’ll do a push up☠️

[@user-bigtiger]

NO PRODUCT CHINA!!!!!

[@diegom1338]

This company is close to bankrupsy...if not already bankrupt! May be they're good designing cars, but not their business plan

[@germanguzman2412]

Entre mas cosas le coloquen a un auto, mas cosas pueden fallar y por mas motivos puede deteriorarse. 🤮

[@nailabc2303]

В России дроны запрещены, так что 14 000 долларов за дроны - сразу в помойку !!!.........😄😁😆😅🤣😂

[@sabun4111]

too expensive, the germans are better in this pricerange !

[@peacehippietrollster1120]

Stick to your outdated neatherthal naz... cars, faxxot.

[@sebek365]

wow :)