XIAOMI Vision GT - CLOSER LOOK

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]Let's take a closer look at the Xiaomi Vision GT today.

[00:00:07]So, first of all, it's a concept car and it is the first Chinese brand to appear in Gran Turismo, which is pretty interesting and it also shows where Xiaomi wants to go to. So, they want to play in the hypercar league. So, that's why this concept car is really interesting and they have quite some interesting error features we should talk about. So, Shiaomi claims that they tried to find the perfect balance between drag and downforce and that the car is shaped by the wind. So, there were a lot of marketing sentences, but let's take a closer look how it really looks like. First of all, this is a two-seater car. It basically has the proportions of the mid-enine sports car and it's fully electric. They talk about 1,900 2,000 horsepower. So, it's always crazy numbers with these electric cars.

[00:00:56]interesting here would be where they actually put the batteries and how they actually drive the axles. If we look at the car, we can see that it has pretty thin headlights. So, it's it's no real headlight unit. We can see small hidden side view cameras, but there's no windscreen viper, for example. So, it is a concept car. It's not a road legal car. It just shows where Xiaomi wants to go to. So, interesting is the packaging of this car. During the presentation, we could see that Shomi showed that the center of the car's body is basically a teardrop shape which is floating in the air. And interesting here is that they have an active kick point. So they can keep the flow attached and they can also detach the flow. And at the back here you can see this floating wing element in the diffuser. So this is the funny rear end that we will talk about in a minute. And interesting is this view where you can see the front push rod suspension. The suspension members here are not arrowshaped, but a push rod front suspension allows this pretty low front end because you can package the dampers in a different location so they're not in the way and you can have a very low front end. We can see that the fenders are a little bit thinner on this side to make space for the side blade. So that is a feature which keeps the air flow on top of the splitter. So it can increase the pressure on top of the splitter and increase downforce. On the other hand, it helps to channel the air along the front wheels. But here we see this turbo fan front wheels and we will talk about them in a minute. We can see that the front is separating the airflow in three main parts. So we have the center part and it's separated with this huge wall here and then we have the outside path. And the most interesting feature on the car aerodynamically is the rear end. So you can see the huge diffuser channels and this actually reminds me on extreme group C cars which pulled the diffuser as high as possible.

[00:02:48]And the rear end of the car sits here floating like a boat. This is what Xiaomi calls it. The rear suspension members, at least the lower ones, are in the airflow here. And they look like they're arrowshaped. And you can see that this shape here is the reason why you have this wing element in the diffuser flow. So with such an element, you can disturb the diffuser flow, but you can also enhance it and you can also help the flow to stay attached at the top. So, so it's a very interesting element, but the main structure of the car is in the middle. And here they bring all the flow together again. And there's almost no wake behind the car because you can see that there's air flow coming at the top here. And there is this huge diffuser from below. So there's not much space for wake. And here we can see all of this a little bit better. So you can see this lower wing element which creates a pretty long tail at the back. We can see these sculpture surfaces here. And we have an air inlet into this element and under this cover.

[00:03:49]And then the air can shoot out with this slot. So you collect a lot of air here.

[00:03:54]And you have a pretty tiny slot for this. So it could accelerate the air.

[00:03:58]And you can also probably guide it upwards. And if air goes up, car goes down. So that could create some additional downforce. And one of the special features of the Vision GT are these separation lines where they can shoot air out. So they can actively blow air out of this separation line and they can separate the air earlier. So the black element is basically shaped to pull the flow together and by separating the air flow here at this brighter surface you can separate the air earlier which reduces drag. Shomi calls this their active wake control system. And then they showed us some simulations. So this is the standard floor which stays attached and then this is with the active weight control and interesting is their wheel assembly. So they have a turboan rim, they have a floating cover outside, so which stays still when the car is driving. You have a semi-slick tire and you have carbon ceramic brakes.

[00:04:56]So we have an electric sports car here, which means that you wouldn't really need brakes so often. And if you use carbon ceramic brakes, they need some time to warm up to have perfect performance. You know the standard problems of Porsche 911 GT3 RS drivers on the autoban that are driving for a long time in the rain for example and they have cold wet carbon ceramic brakes and they have worse brake performance than normal brakes. So that would be the same case here. Plus this is an electric car where you would usually not use the brakes because of recuperation. But if you do drive on the track if you need a lot of braking performance it will take some time to heat this brakes up. But at the same time, you have turbo fan rims.

[00:05:37]So why do you do that? You have these fan elements outside and because of the rotation of the rim, they basically work like a fan and they're shoveling air out of the wheel compartment. So which means that you have better cooling with something like this, but also more drag.

[00:05:51]So on an electric car with carbon ceramic brakes, why would you have turbo fan rims if warming up the brakes is already a challenge? So that doesn't really make sense to me unless you're only driving full throttle with this car on the track. On the other hand, they underlined how important drag reduction was for them, but then they use turboan wheels. So they're actually shoveling air along the sides of the wheels with their blade element at the front, but then they shovel it directly into the turboan area. And for this turbo fan to work, they have some air inlets in the cover. So air can probably enter the rim in the middle. We can't really see it here on this picture, but there might be a structure which allows that. And then air can exit outside. So similar to a turbocharger. So while driving, it would look like this. It's not the most appealing rim design, but you can let me know in the comments below how you like this design. It's a pretty fancy idea, but I don't quite get why you would want so much brake cooling on an electric sports car. And also here you can see this is the door handle. So this is really like a hyper car which is cool.

[00:06:56]So this is door handle and this could even be outlet for the cockpit which it is for race cars. Not really sure if you can do it here because otherwise it could also rain inside. Yeah. Anyway, just a nice little detail. We can also see a large center fin which makes the car look bigger. So it would look a lot lower if this wouldn't be there but for stabilization at high speeds this can help here. and also to keep the front rear wake away from the center in corners. In this shot, we can see quite nicely that behind the front wheel there's basically nothing. So all the wake of the front wheel can travel along the side and then exit the car at the sides without hitting anything important. Interesting here is that the car does not have any air inlets. So cooling is still an open question here.

[00:07:43]So how do you cool this car? The only air inlet we saw at the back was basically to feed this arrow element.

[00:07:50]But um there are no real cooling inlets and also at the front here there is an outlet here and in some shots you could see that you can look through this to the front. So actually the air which enters down here can also be guided upwards. So again if air goes up car goes down. So you have more downforce from this but still no cooling inlet.

[00:08:11]And in the presentation it was quite interesting to see that Xiaomi was also presenting the aerodynamic figures and they have a dark coefficient but pretty funny typo here in the presentation but 29 for the amount of downforce they claim to produce is quite impressive. So that's a very low drag efficient for so much downforce and that creates a pretty high aerodynamic efficiency of 4.1. So in Formula 1, you're Europe around 4 to 4.5 and hyper cars, so race cars with covered wheels are usually sitting somewhere around five. So 4.1 for a roadka is really impressive. For the interior, Xiaomi describes that it should basically be as comfortable as a sofa to drive this car. They even created a simulator which has the same seating position as in the car. And because it's a tech company, it doesn't stop with the car. You can connect the car to all of your devices, your phone, your smartwatch, and your smart home and everything. So, this is really their expertise and interesting combination which we can't really see from traditional car brands. So, the Xiaomi Vision GT is really an interesting outlook in where Xiaomi wants to be in a couple of years and they are really open for any kind of innovation. So, pretty cool concept to see here, but if this car is really realistic remains to be seen because I cannot really see where they package a battery for a car that should deliver these kind of numbers.

[00:09:41]And also, some of the design features here are very interesting, but it's still a bigger step to get them on the road and to get them really to work. So, how do you like the Xiaomi Vision GT?

[00:09:52]Let me know in the comments below and see you at the next video.