BYD’s new upmarket Yangwang model has revealed its third manufacturing automobile: a 1000bhp-plus luxurious saloon geared toward efficiency variants of the BMW i5 and Mercedes-Benz EQE.

Set to go on sale in China through the second half of 2024, the brand new four-door relies on BYD’s e4 platform – the identical construction that underpins the Yangwang U8 SUV and U9 supercar.

The styling of the U7, created below the guise of former Audi design boss Wolfgang Egger, adopts cues already seen on the U9, together with flamboyant C-shaped headlamp graphics, structured flanks and full-width tail-lights.

It additionally displays a household resemblance with BYD-branded fashions – together with the UK-bound Seal saloon – and accommodates wheels of as much as 21in in diameter.

BYD is but to disclose the size of the U7, however Chinese studies counsel it may stretch to as much as 5200mm in size and 2000mm in width.

Officials from the Chinese producer declare will probably be among the many most aerodynamic environment friendly vehicles to enter manufacturing, with a drag coefficient that betters the i5 and EQE, at 0.195Cd.  

In a Wednesday posting to its official WeChat channel, Yangwang stated the U7 will get greater than 1000bhp from 4 electrical motors.

At this stage, it is not recognized if the four-wheel-drive saloon will characteristic a range-extender powertrain, as utilized by the U8, or a pure-electric one, as discovered within the U9.

The REx system of the U8 combines a 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol engine with 4 electrical motors and a 49.1kWh lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery. It develops 1180bhp.

The EV drivetrain used to energy the U9 makes use of 4 electrical motors together with a 100kWh lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery. It develops 1100bhp.

BYD stated the brand new Yangwang flagship will value upwards of ¥1 million (£109,650) in China.