2024 Voyah Free is a Luxury Electric SUV From China (ENG) Test Drive and Review

[@Achillias]

This car is from exterior and interior viewpoint incredibly beautiful.

[@1t729]

I like your reviews, they are concise, correct and in which you critically approach any aspect, I also appreciate highlighting the lack of logic in the construction and use of the vehicles described. Good job !

[@MarekDrivesENG]

I appreciate that!

[@ounihoussem7465]

Any chance you will review Lynk&co 01!? Looking forward to seeing that

[@MarekDrivesENG]

Not any time soon. We don't get those in Poland. Yet.

[@maikelbronkhorst1653]

I bought the Voyah Free in Belarus, the Hybrid model, with adjustable sunroof and summer and winter tires for 45.000 USD. The only thing to solve is the navigation, the mode for music ( all in Chinese ) and the STG loader. The car is better then expected, for sure for this price.

[@MarekDrivesENG]

STG loader?

[@goncalo33]

8:08 That's really cool. If anything, that's the one thing that must be a physical button.

[@trivialpursuitjohnson5261]

Really good video Marek

[@paulchappell]

Good review, thank you. Voyah Free seems to need more work. Any reason why the touch screens/ menus weren’t listed as one of the negatives?

[@MarekDrivesENG]

There were so many negatives :)

[@goncalo33]

9:04 It's so that the driver doesn't get distracted by the passenger messing about with the interface, and/or getting in the way of the driver adjusting settings/navigation himself. I'd argue that there should be no middle screen; just a gauge cluster screen for the driver and one for the passenger, both fully separate.

[@scott8919]

I thought DankPods came on when I heard Scarlet Fire.

[@laupakhin]

Thanks once again for the review, Marek. I hope you don't cop too many xenophobic comments on this one. This car seems to have some of the same issues as a lot of other products from startups have, in terms of execution and ergonomics. I think most of the legacy car makers have an advantage by having already made a lot of these mistakes previously, although the whole touchscreen thing is a blight for the auto industry in general.. Aesthetically though I think this car is well sorted, certainly better than some of the early South Korean cars that arrived in western markets. It will be interesting to see in the next decade which brands survive and which disappear.

[@MarekDrivesENG]

Yes, it seems even cars can stir up political debates these days :/

[@robalamont]

To sum up then, if you buy a Voyah, there are some things that will annoyah, but not so bad as to have to hoyah a lawyer. As usual your review was on foyah!🔥……. 🤪

[@MarekDrivesENG]

🤣

[@niprbmw_210]

I feel like some of the features are quite unnecessary of the Voyah Free especially the button to raise the entire dashboard. The charger port could be also a problem aswell, they could've use it as a button for the exterior like in a Peugeot E-Traveller or a physical button for the interior but I could see as a problem for the owner.

[@filipw3251]

my dream suv is a 5.4 kompressor swapped voyah free

[@NigelRudyard]

Great review. It's a decent effort at a luxury EV. I don't get why mechanical functions have to be operated from the touch screen, especially since some of the effort could have gone into making those parts properly.

[@shroomyesc]

I really really like the styling of this. However, I'm skeptical that Voyah will make a lasting presence in (most of) Europe and that's fine, now's a time for these Chinese corporations to see which of their marques can leave a mark here. Besides the car's faults, to my knowledge Dongfeng doesn't have any other brand presence in Europe besides perhaps a couple Fengshens in Germany and I think that's a big issue. SAIC, for example has built a solid foundation with MG and Maxus selling both personal vehicles and vans/taxis which gives them a great footing to use the same distributors to sell the IM luxury brand that's coming over soon. Voyah in comparison is from a largely unknown parent company, and they currently only have one product with the Free unless they soon bring their (still limited selection) of two other cars here. In Finland even the rather flawed MG Marvel R is a daily sight, and I even saw a Hongqi E-HS9 which is more expensive than the Voyah today out of my window. Haven't seen a Voyah a single time despite living right next to their dealership.

[@MarekDrivesENG]

I've seen a Hongqi E-HS9 in a Dubai showroom. It's basically a Cullinan. Way more premium, than Voyah.

[@shroomyesc]

@@MarekDrivesENG Do you know if Hongqi has any plans of coming to Poland?

[@MarekDrivesENG]

It's a private dealer, so I'm not keen on making contact.

[@guillaumehabarugira]

The negative darts in the review say more about the quality of a car brand we have never heard about a year earlier, than about the goodness of the incumbent established western brands it is benchmarked against - buying this one now!

[@nikolayrayanov2895]

The design is good, the price is not too bad for a Chinese vehicle, but all of the issues you've mentioned will have to be ironed out for this to even have a chance of any good margin of sales in Europe.

[@keb777]

Russians in China say Lixiang is the best.

[@enricio]

😎. I'd go for it. 🤸✨👌👏🥂

[@moon.trance]

Holy. This car costs like $35k in China. Why's it so expensive in EU? Mercedes scared, those taxes are ridiculous.

[@autowiewiorka771]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@system11yt]

It doesn't look very luxury really - there are fit and finish issues visible straight away. I do like seeing more real buttons especually for climate. I think I would pick the Kia (even though I hate their driver assist features), it's going to be reliable and the warranty is good.

[@Sinr0ne]

Finnish reviewer said exactly the same about the charging port flap and the impossible cable disconnect. What a shit product.

[@MarekDrivesENG]

So it's a problem on more than one car then. Thanks for sharing.

[@samwhite8093]

Avoid!

[@principsus]

75K ? LoL

[@bghancock84]

Wayyyyy to complicated

[@skemsen]

🤔Do you know if any Western authorities have looked into if these Chinese cars are sending mass surveillance info from cameras and microphones in their cars out to the regime in the far east?

[@gritnltw]

No, but rest assure uncle Jo knows everything you type, think, eat. Edward and Julian gave you evidence, not rumours.

[@skemsen]

@@gritnltw But of course. No doubt about it. But do we want even more regimes doing that to us?

[@F-MK96]

ask how much they pay their workers.... thats why it costs so cheap

[@jayjayvolz8553]

I really do not see how it can be considered ecological to have such resource intensive shitboxes rolling around. 100+ kwh, 500 hp, overweight - is that how we save our living conditions on this planet, one heavy electric abomination at a time?

[@canecorsofamily4907]

Terrible negative review from this lousy biased presenter

[@devil5741]

Chinese brands are like sour beer, you can drink them... but it’s better not to))

[@liueric-j9z]

try something new，embrace the future.

[@robertvoicu5203]

I și.oly do not understand why so many "reviews" for Chinese cars on your channel. re you so keen on on Chinese cars, do you find them so attractive? A car is not a list of specs, or to be seen as 1:42 cheap price therefore affordable, it is a co.olete experience, from design, quality, security, reliability and the quality of support / service. This is what we are buying when choosing a car. However, I will unsubscribe your channel because of this, with sorry though. I like it at the beginning, enjoyed quite a while but now I find too much Chinese stuff.

[@patteyh]

The reason you see so many reviews of chinese EVs these days is because they dominate the market.