It’s called the Avant GT and it looks like someone tried to make a Porsche Panamera out of a Honda Crosstour. The pure-electric model was first shown in Shanghai earlier this year and it’s the product of five companies – none of which have any real experience building cars – including Taiwanese design firm Studio X-Gene, financial partner Altair ProductDesign and technological partners Delta Electronics, Wistron and Qisda.
The Avant GT is being marketed as, “a pure electric sports grand tourer” – which I suppose makes it Taiwan’s Tesla or Fisker wannabe. Let’s see what the company bigwigs have to say about it, starting with Studio X-Gene executive director Albert Yang:
"The Avant GT is a unique project for Studio X-Gene and represents the quality of automotive design expertise available in Taiwan today. Partnering with Altair ProductDesign proved invaluable. Combining our design knowledge with Altair's engineering and optimization expertise has allowed us to deliver this exciting, high-performance new vehicle to the Shanghai Auto Show and really make an impact on the automotive community."
When will it be on sale? We don’t know. How much will it cost? We don’t know that either, though we guess we'll find out soon enough.
By Tristan Hankins
Story References: Studio X-Gene via Cnet
15 Comments:
At least it's consistently weird throughout.
panamera look
I am Taiwanese, never hear this car before and my god, it looks ugly!
What is this? It looks like combined Porsche Panamera and Lada Kalina.
That doesn't look anything like a Porsche at all. Nice copy of a BMW dash.
Better looking than that ugly Leaf!!!!!!!
Back almost resembles Chrysler/Lancia Ypsilon
I like the look, certainly looks better than a BMW 3 series.
Though the exterior needs some further tweaking, the styling direction of the Avant GT looks pretty good. For a first timer in the automotive industry, it is pretty impressive!
Is this the new BMW GT 3? lol ....anyway, it looks like a mix of Bimmer's, Panam', and yes ...Lada ! Finally not so bad , but ugly enought to flush it away !!
At least it looks better then any current Honda or Toyota.
Headlights look like they are from RX-8
I see some Honda Insight and Citroen round the back as well.
Not terrible.
are those instrument clusters digital? if so, it would be a big deal only when the company offers to price it at sub 25k.
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