Yang Wang’s U8 SUV Weighs Nearly 4 Tonnes and It Can Swim

YangWang is a subsidiary of the locally available BYD moniker. The latest offering from the Chinese brand is a luxury hybrid U8 SUV with more than a handful of party tricks to justify its almost R2,8 million price tag.

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U8

Image: YangWang

The Herculean SUV is offered in two distinct trim levels namely, the Premium Edition and the Off-Road Master Edition and as the name would suggest, the latter is the more off-road inclined model in the range. The most notable visual detractors that distinguish the Premium Edition from the Off-Road Master are the additional features such as a bolder front bumper, adjustable/removable roof rails, and snorkel (among other things) affixed to the Off-Road Master variant.

The YangWang U8 is a large SUV. It is 5 319 mm long, 2 050 mm wide, and 1 930 mm tall, which would make it almost the same size as a Land Rover Defender 130 P400 X, although the U8 is founded on a slightly larger wheelbase (3050 mm). Sharing the same physical footprint, the U8 is only a five-seater with no third-row option. At the core of the U8 is a 2,0-litre turbocharged ICE powering a 49,05 kWh battery, which is integrated into the chassis. Affixed to the 2,0-litre powerplant are four electric motors, each capable of a 220 kW output, culminating into a total output of 880 kW and 1280 N.m!

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U8

Image: YangWang

The cabin is ladened with six screens (and Nappa leather) ranging from a 23,6-inch instrument panel to a 12,8-inch centre console display. The front-row passenger has access to a 23,6-inch infotainment screen. Additionally, the U8 features a 70-inch augmented reality heads-up display and a 22-speaker sound system. At the heart of the computational power of the U8 is an Nvidia Drive Orin SoC, which is fed information via 38 sensors that include 3 lidars, 13 cameras, 12 ultrasonic radars, and 5-millimetre wave radars.

As for party tricks, it can do a 360-degree tank turn (on land and in the water), it has a thermographic camera and built-in satellite phone, and it can float…

The U8 can wade in a maximum depth of 1 000 mm and 1 400 mm in the Off-Road Master Edition as a result of the added snorkel. When the U8 exceeds the maximum depth while in the wading mode, it will automatically activate the floating mode. What this does is shut down the engine, raise the suspension to its maximum level (150 mm via the Disus- P hydraulic body control system), close all the windows, switch the A/C to internal circulation and finally open the sunroof to offer a means of escape if need be. The U8 is said to be capable of staying afloat for 30 minutes and can even travel forward up to 3 km/h.

Interested in owning a nearly 4-tonne hybrid SUV with more screens than doors that would probably cost a shade under R3 million?

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