It’s big. It’s new. It’s aggressively affordable for what it is.
Xpeng has finally dropped its flagship full-size SUV, the GX. The price starts at 279,80 yuan (roughly 41,06 USD ) and climbs from there. You can get it with a pure electric motor or an extended-range setup. Either way, it puts out peak power of 57 horsepower.
This is Xpeng’s first three-row attempt at taking down the Lynk & Co 09, IM L9, and the Voyah Free. People already noticed it looked suspiciously like a Range Rover when pre-sales opened. But looking good isn’t enough. The launch event showed there’s actually more going on under the skin than just body cladding.
Big body. Small drag.
The dimensions are substantial: 5,26 mm long, nearly 2 meters wide, and over 1.8 meters tall. The wheelbase stretches to 3,15 mm. For a boxy family hauler, it slips through air with a drag coefficient of just 0.25 Cd.
They kept the retractable door handles, even with looming regulations that might force them to change later. Minimalist styling dictates everything, it seems. You can roll it out on 21 or 22-inch wheels. It feels planted. Heavy. Expensive looking.
The lounge on wheels
Inside, it’s a six-seater. A 2+2+2 layout means everyone gets their own throne, technically speaking.
The trunk holds 673 liters normally. Fold down that third row and it jumps to 1,748 liters. That’s cargo space for an apocalypse.
But who cares about luggage when you have second-row captain’s chairs? These seats come with zero-gravity mode, legrests that move themselves, heating, ventilation, and 16-point massage. There’s a fridge. There are 33 speakers. There is even a 21.4-inch ceiling-mounted screen for the kids (or the driver who wants to watch Netflix while parked).
“Technology without soul is just data. This car has soul, if that soul is made of lithium.”
The center console stacks screens: a 17.3-inch touch interface, an 8.8-inch cluster, and an 88-inch AR head-up display. Three colors for the interior trim: brown, white, or purple. You get two wireless chargers. Scent emitters. Ambient lighting that probably pulses with your heart rate. Is that necessary? Maybe. It sells the luxury fantasy.
AI brains
Here’s where it gets nerdy.
The assisted driving hardware scales up drastically depending on your trim.
- Max uses 750 TOPs chips
- Ultra SE hits 1,50 TOPs
- Ultra reaches 2,25 TOPs
- L4 Robo tops out at 3,0 TOPs
That L4 Robo trim is the one to watch. It won’t drop until H2 06, but it’s labeled as L4-ready for self-driving. The other variants use Bosch steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire.
Combined with dual-chamber air suspension and rear-wheel steering, the thing handles surprisingly tight for a five-meter long SUV. It turns with a radius of just 5.4 meters. You can park a school bus in its shadow and it would still look agile.
Powertrains and the final bill
Let’s talk power.
The EREV model has a 1.5-liter engine. Don’t worry, it doesn’t drive the wheels directly. It generates electricity for the 63.3 kWh battery and two e-motors. Combined, those motors spit out 496 hp.
Range? You get 43 km on pure electricity. Add in the 60-liter fuel tank and the CLTC figures suggest a massive 1,585 kilometers of total range. That is absurd. It crosses borders without sweating.
The pure EV starts simpler. The rear-wheel-drive Max trim has a single motor making 36 hp. Paired with a 9.9 kWh battery, it does 65 km.
The four-wheel-drive Ultra trims step things up. Dual motors make 57 hp. The biggest battery in the lineup, a 10 kWh pack, pushes range to 70 km.
The prices are steep if you want the top spec, but the entry is shockingly low for this size class.
Before discounts, the lineups look like this:
- GX Max EV: 29,8 yuan (1, USD)
- GX Ultra SE EV: 89,8 yuan (,52 USD)
- GX Max EREV: 99,8 yuan (3, USD)
- GX Ultra SE EREV: 9,8 yuan (5, USD)
- GX Ultra EV: 19,8 yuan (6,2 USD)
- GX Ultra EREV: 29,8 yuan (8, USD)
That entry price of 4,0 USD for a full-size, AI-packed, air-suspended SUV with massage seats feels wrong. Like a typo.
Xpeng wants the market to panic. They’re giving premium specs at mid-range prices. Competitors won’t know what hit them until they do the math. And the math, currently, favors Xpeng.
