Tesla Roadster Date Confirmed, Xpeng X9 ANCAP & Paris Motor Show News

Let's, uh, put this up on the screen there.

So yes, we've had some, uh, five-star ANCAP ratings hot off the press this week, the Xpeng X9 and also the GAC Aion UT, both well-deserved, both getting reasonably high scores across the board.

Um, I had the pleasure of driving the Xpeng X9 with Joy to Canberra recently.

That was a lot of fun.

It's, uh, honestly a beautiful car to road trip in.

Um, and, uh, my mother-in-law said it was, uh, yeah, probably the best car we've had d- on the open road.

So that's high praise from her as well.

Um, Roland, you've also been in that car, haven't you, recently?

Yeah.

Uh, amazing on the highway.

Uh, it genuinely surprised me.

I was thinking it would be a bit bland and boring, but highway drive was pretty good.

Same thing with the Aion UT, but it's funny, it's almost like the ANCAP was like the smallest car you could get and then the biggest car you could get.

[chuckles]

Exactly.

Exactly.

Um, yeah, I mean, to be honest, the Xpeng is a little bit, I don't know, a little bit bouncy on the urban roads, I thought, but on the highway, it's just superb.

It's very, very comfortable.

Riz, you might have to, uh, do, uh-- repeat our road trip to Canberra in something like the Xpeng.

Oh, yeah.

Look, that, that was, that was good, but that was an MG4.

Yeah.

[chuckles]

This thing is [chuckles] this thing's way more luxurious than that.

I know.