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True, from that Autocar gallery the Xpeng's body shape looks more like a bad copy of a French car with a few incidental sprinklings of Tesla that could have bee

True, from that Autocar gallery the Xpeng's body shape looks more like a bad copy of a French car with a few incidental sprinklings of Tesla that could have been described to Xpeng's designers over a brief telephone call. From the front it looks like a Tesla Model Y that was reproduced in balloon form—and then slightly overinflated. The dashboard and driver display clearly too obvious liberties from the Tesla Model S, but that design is what... eight years old now? And the real value is in the software interaction design, not the coarse hardware alignment. Besides it's likely that Tesla will be doing a major refresh of the Model S/X interior within the next couple of years anyway, making the Xpeng look like a bad copy of a decidedly dated. (I offer no opinion about IP theft.)

knolax 6y ago
> it looks more like a bad copy of a French car Could you provide an example of this "French car" that they copied? A google image search for "French SUV" doesn't turn up any cars that particularly resemble the G3. A search for "French electric vehicle" turns up with a bunch of Smart Car lookalikes. It's like whenever China is mentioned people turn into Markov chains and have to work the word copy into the rest of their sentence regardless of the reality. Edit: You added a bit about the interior looking like a Model S's, which I agree with. Personally I believe touch screens in a car console should be illegal.
- sjwright 6y ago
  Apologies for not being clear. I wasn’t thinking about any specific French car, just that it had a bulgy, mid-2000s Peugeot/Citroen feel about it. Beyond that I’d describe its body shape as almost painfully generic. I was not accusing the design of being a clone of a specific existing design. I was accusing it of being hideous.
- solarkraft 6y ago
  The bar at the back certainly looks a lot like that on the new Peugeot 208: https://www.peugeot.fr/gamme/nos-vehicules/208.html https://www.peugeot.fr/gamme/nos-vehicules/208.html

knolax 6y ago

> it looks more like a bad copy of a French car Could you provide an example of this "French car" that they copied? A google image search for "French SUV" doesn't turn up any cars that particularly resemble the G3. A search for "French electric vehicle" turns up with a bunch of Smart Car lookalikes. It's like whenever China is mentioned people turn into Markov chains and have to work the word copy into the rest of their sentence regardless of the reality. Edit: You added a bit about the interior looking like a Model S's, which I agree with. Personally I believe touch screens in a car console should be illegal.

sjwright 6y ago
Apologies for not being clear. I wasn’t thinking about any specific French car, just that it had a bulgy, mid-2000s Peugeot/Citroen feel about it. Beyond that I’d describe its body shape as almost painfully generic. I was not accusing the design of being a clone of a specific existing design. I was accusing it of being hideous.
solarkraft 6y ago
The bar at the back certainly looks a lot like that on the new Peugeot 208: https://www.peugeot.fr/gamme/nos-vehicules/208.html https://www.peugeot.fr/gamme/nos-vehicules/208.html