Prices of the new Zeekr X electric car have dropped by up to $7000 months after the first examples arrived ahead of the arrival of new models from the Chinese brand.
The Zeekr X Rear-Wheel Drive (RWD) now starts from $49,900 plus on-road costs – down $7000 from its $56,900 launch price – while the All-Wheel Drive (AWD) is now $62,900, down $2000.
The Convenience Package for the RWD remains a $4000 option.
You mean like the Xiaomi phones?
Don't agree with this comment. We've had five Xiaomi mobiles and they've been flawless and the pricepoint is uncontested .. !!
yeah all those Toyotas on the road the quality must be terrible
Hi Pooh bear!
Who knew Toyota, Aussie, Holden, Commodore, Elon and Trumpet were that hard to spell
Holden went bankrupt because:
They have the manufacturing scale and knowledge, the BYD factory is the size of a city, a phone company made a super car on the side and the CEO of Ford drives it everyday and says it is great.
Competition is how quality goes up not down.
That's only true to a point, usually until someone unscrupulous enters the market.
You should look up market for lemons. With imperfect knowledge and transparency it becomes a race to the bottom
Which, through determination to gain market share, is where this will go without appropriate standards to comply to (not that compliance is fully possible to verify either, plenty of factories produce fake material testing certificates etc)
Due to standards it's not going to be as bad as $5 garbage off aliexpress but the risks are higher with cars (safety)
PS: I'm not saying it's bad quality because it's Chinese. Great quality can come from China but the lower the standards and product testing by the importer, the higher the requirement for factory supervision (by someone impartial.. easier when the head company is not Chinese)
We will also be dealing with political issues where China doesn't want to lose face and will bury (and if not possible, blame) any issue with Chinese cars over the next decade. The government is absolutely involved with this due to subsidisation.
I'm probably going to buy a BYD myself. Just putting some economics, standards and political context into the thread
That's only true to a point, usually until someone unscrupulous enters the market.
You should look up market for lemons. With imperfect knowledge and transparency it becomes a race to the bottom
Hasn't stopped GM yet.
@Spendmore: Jeep is an impressive brand.
They have continuously held several of the top 10 spots for least reliable vehicles for almost a decade.
The Grand Cherokee has moved in and out of the top 1 position multiple times
… But people still buy them
What, a load, of garbage.
Haha, there are countless examples where that is not true!! Heck almost every product i can think of its not true. Sure, they get more advanced and more capable. But quality? More often than not, no. Competitive drives advancement. Its also drives lowering costs, compromises, and bad decisions.
Just drove a BYD for the first time, and god damn it’s incredible.
Other than the side cameras missing some speed limit signs or even misrecognising them as something else (70 could be a 10), it’s pretty decent. All it really needs is some GPS integration to remedy this issue.
I have a 2025 byd. Much like everyone living in China, i have no complaints.
which model?
Which BYD did you drive? The Atto 3s have had update and the on-board GPS Nav is based on Google Maps and reasonably good. I still use CarPlay though.
Sealion 7.
I probably won’t buy a BYD, as I’m obviously dead set on a PHEV van or cab-chassis ute for a motorhome conversion, but I can absolutely see myself buying one if the housing market deflates and improves for customers.
Is the key word here "God's Eye"? ;)
Aus government would never allow God's eye.
Thats a pretty stupid take tbh
Compared to non chinese EV's like Testla?
Which some are made in China😅
Yep, All of the Australian ones are from China.
I'd rather have a Chinese built car than an American built car.
Why too expensive?
Zeekr is a luxury brand in China
Intelligent Cockpit Computing Platform
Ah yes, the old ICCP.
I love that marketing mumbo-jumbo 😁
Marketing dept has to justify their jobs some how
Marketing department: ChatGTP, make "smart headunit computer device" sound fancy….
Just tried it, it gave me a bunch of responses, first was "Intelligent Infotainment Processing System" so not far off.
The best response was "OmniSync Vehicle Brain".
That's what they probably rebranded in China, whereas in the English-speaking west, it's called ChatGPT.
I feel like not everyone has got this joke,
ICCP… wait a minute 🤔
iCCP
Nice car, well equipped. AWD should be under 60k driveway.
Why stop there? How about $1.50 all in!
I'll take 2!
Poor pricing strategy there mate, should be $1.49
Everytime I see the logo I think Sennheiser.
We need Chinese cars to do well or else we all would end up paying $50,000 for a cloth seat, plastic fantastic interior Toyota Corolla. I still remember the day after Covid lockdown, the salesman with a straight face saying to me that I can have a mid spec Corolla priority reserved for me to pickup the following month if I pay $60,000 NOW. I will never forget that. Let's go Chinese cars, hope they take all the market share.
They need to be more competitive with price then sorry
Who? The Chinese EVs are very competitive on price. This is not remotely in the same class as a corolla.
Chinese EV's need to be cheaper to compete unfortunately, no one is buying a brand named 'zeekr' unless it's cheaper than the competition
@31mop: BYD Atto 3 premium is $47.5k driveaway, I agree that all new competitors need to be cheaper or better than BYD in order to be successful here if they want to sell the same product. Everyone knows that reputation is everything, especially when it comes to cars. So if you're unknown and you're not cheaper, it's not going to do well.
I am rooting for them to displace American cars, especially overseas.
Japanese and European cars, not so much but it’s fine for EVs.
It keeps the Japanese car manufacturers in check, especially with pricing.
Oh definitely, but I do admire Japanese sports cars because they’re not as big or bulky as other sports cars.
If Nio’s hypercar is any indication, though, perhaps we will soon start to see an electric sports car scene coming China, and it eventually will get some media of its own that popularises it across the world, like how Initial D and F&F brought Japanese sports cars into the global mainstream.
went car shopping recently, saw a lot of demo electric konas with half a year warranty left on dealer lots. been listed for months. wouldn't budge on prices. they're all the "i know what i have" type, pretending byd/chery/geely don't exist.
How hilarious. Good luck to them.
likewise a lot of tesla owners are trying to sell their car for 95% of RRP. godspeed
Even in the post-tariff world, the longer they don't lower the price, the more pride they will need to swallow when they will sell at that lower price.
For some reason they think the Tesla's are appreciating assets.
Wouldn't mind going back to cloth seats instead of shitty pleather everywhere!
I bought a Chery Omoda E5 recently and opted for the base spec specifically because it came with (rather nice) cloth seats, no regrets at all
Until the first spill at Maccas drive through or a late night with the gang. You will need to replace the whole seat, nothing will get the smell out. Get a Scotchgard Fabric & Upholstery Protector on it pronto, at least it will give some protection from smaller spills and 'moisture'.
@Dollar Dreamer: No food or drink in the car. No matter what.
Detailers can get smells or, it'll just cost a bit for a deep clean. Nothing is impossible.
@Dollar Dreamer: Simple. Don't do it, or dont be a grub. Its not rocket science. Can't say i've ever had an issue or known anyone that has, but i guess some must be careless or clumsy.
@Xizor: Eating in a car while cruising on a long drive is one of life's pleasures. Damn you missing out.
that was the only bad thing about my Tesla Model 3, otherwise amazing
Name the dealer please.
Had a used car salesman tell me last weekend "sorry, cheapest we have is a 2014 i30 at $17k" … It's like some of them are stuck in 2023.
I don't even like Toyota, but argument sakes, one is ICE and other is electric. Still ICE need bit more human touch than electric. Oh wait, I bet COVID caused issuss to the robotics.
Love how quick the prices are dropping but I’m so worried about locking one in with these massive price cuts happening so quickly.
I’ve been in the market for a new EV for almost a year and a half and I’m yet to pull a trigger because pricesss keep dropping!
Im the same as you, but i think this is the year
I agree sometime this year I will lock one in, I don’t believe they can drop much more I will wait to see how the market pans out in July and see what new tech is on the horizon and what new models and based on this will lock one in.
Not gonna lie the Geely EX almost had me, but I will wait to see 6 months after launch how they go first.
Username checks out. Sometimes you just gotta buy when you need it if you can't wait 2 years like you have been waiting.
Wait for the Deepal E07 , which is due later this year.
It will be similarly priced and the design is innovative, ie. spacious sedan front
with a back that can become a semi-ute too (Cybertruck style!)
@whyisave: I’m on the same boat but deepal and leapmotor have fumbled out of the gate so no confidence there
Xpeng is promising but I don’t trust their dealership to make good on the warranty
Geely was the one until I test drove it and found it was more like a toy than a car
Byd ticks all boxes except it’s overly inefficient
I’ll keep doing this to talk myself out of buying one until the “next big thing”
@whyisave: That is freaking cool!
Probably a second gen kind of purchase because that's a lot of new tech to be beta testing for $80k
But cool that companies are still trying new things
@whyisave: E07 price is out. Released yesterday
(RWD) from $64,900 MLP1 and (AWD) from $73,900 MLP1.
@CaffeineCruiser: That price will compete well with Tesla Model Y, whilst looking like the poor man's Tesla Cybertruck 😁
They priced it too high at the start
Yep, you would have to be desperate or a moron to buy these EVs within the first 6-12 months of release. Nearly every single one has plunged many thousands in price.
Zeekr AU has the biggest mark up compared to their domestic pricing with-in the Chinese brands that's launched here. The price for the X needs to be lower.
Me 2. I really hope BYD bring in Sealion 5 EV very soon, can't wait any longer. If Sealion 5 EV price at 45,000 I am sure it will be the best selling for year long.
Making room for the Zeekr 7X?
Ooof near 15% discounting so soon. May be safer to buy a Tesla that has already gone through the major price discounting already
I reckon Tesla will look to lower prices at some stage this year once the gloss off the new Model Y launch dies down.
Tesla is already offering 0% interest rates on the new model y in China market
They already dropped prices today - $2500 off Model 3
The $3500 novated lease rebate and free UMC ended 31st March and now has been replaced with the $2500 off for this quarter. Not as good. Hold out till EOFY.
Oooooh high risk. You will need to get one of these stickers if you don't want your car keyed though. https://www.amazon.com.au/Elon-Sticker-Bumper-Anti-Musk/dp/B…
"The tolerant left"… I'd make it my life's mission to key someone's forehead if I had video of them keying my car (which everyone with half a brain know that Tesla's record their cameras), absolute dog act.
And the funniest part is its mostly left leaning people that bought them.
They bought the car not elons ideology
@brocky2006: The left always eats itself. You can only virtue signal so far until you're deemed not virtuous enough.
Chinese cars are just better than American cars right now, and it doesn’t help that the only American car manufacturer that sells EVs internationally is run by a fascist.
Ford Mustang Mach-E?
Who also makes said cars in China…
You rave about Cars out of China (some of which are fantastiic), run by the CCP guilty of all manner of awful things including being one of the worst offenders of human rights abusers for DECADES, but draw the line at "fascist" Elon? Crikey. I miss the days political opposition actually had some principle behind it.
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