Yangwang U8: 30 minutes afloat
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30 minutes. According to BYD, that is how long this car will stay afloat. This is the Yangwang U8, an off-road SUV with four motors, one at each wheel. They let it turn on the spot. On water, too. The maker is blunt: this is an emergency feature for floods, not a toy. And it warns people not to try it themselves. Few people know that the famous swimming videos show a camouflaged prototype. They were shot 7 months before the launch. Price in China: over 1 million yuan, from 1,098,000 to be exact. And the catch: we found no independent test in a real flood. And sales are falling: from over 7 thousand cars to under 3 thousand a year later.
