What does the unique do Audi r8 and this Hongqi S9 supercar have in frequent? A designer, imagine it or not. Unveiled on Monday on the Shanghai Auto Present, the S9 comes from vice chairman of fashion and design Walter de Silva of the three way partnership named Silk EV-FAW. This is similar man who led the design of Audi and the VW Group till 2015.

The automotive is admittedly wild, albeit a bit nameless up entrance with generic strains that really feel very comfy inside a Grand Theft Auto or Burnout online game. There are only some methods you may design a mid-engined automotive. The rear feels extra helpful with the curved rear finish, rectangular LED taillights, and bulging hips to intensify the mid-mounted powertrain. Talking of which, the powertrain is a 1400 horsepower V8 with a plug-in hybrid setup. Silk EV-FAW guarantees a 0-100 km / h time of 1.9 seconds and a prime pace of over 250 km / h. Whereas powertrain particulars are slim, there’ll supposedly be sufficient battery juice to maintain the automotive going 25 miles on pure electrical energy.

Silk EV-FAW plans to construct 99 of those supercars within the former operations heart in Italy. FAW hopes to capitalize on the glitz and glamor because it strives to relaunch the Hongqi model regionally in China. For actual automotive fanatics, Hongqi is the model that constructed limousines for Mao Zedong. FAW’s purpose is to make the model a home luxurious powerhouse to compete with American and European luxurious manufacturers. A supercar is unquestionably a method of making an attempt to seize consideration.