Wang Fengying Drives the Right-Hand-Drive XPeng G9L Bound for Australia

XPeng's president Wang Fengying has driven the right-hand-drive G9L that is about to be shipped to Australia — and the video of that drive is circulating with her reaction in it: "Easily 150 — and the handling feel is really good."

▶ Play the 4-minute clip (English subtitles burned in) — the video below is the original audio with English subtitles added by XPENGTech.

Source video: 烟隐烟隐 on Weibo, 14 September 2026. Translation by XPENGTech.

What she says in the car

The clip is a track-style drive with the company's president at the wheel, and it doubles as commentary on what the Australian car will be. A few lines, translated:

"This is right-hand drive, right? — Yes. — This is the first batch for Australia, right? — Yes."

"I'm a bit nervous driving a right-hand-drive car." (It's fine, it's fine.)

"Developing this car took us more than three years. Because it's a global car — road testing alone covered 26 countries and regions. Total mileage reached 6.74 million km."

"Our turning radius is only 5.4 metres — smaller than a MINI's."

"Against its peers, I don't think there's a rival anywhere. It should be the world's number one."

On the speed she is blunt: mostly speeding, and the car is steady at it — "not a hint of vibration." The rear-wheel steering is singled out as "an outstanding capability", and the packaging as the reason it calls itself the space king among large five-seaters.

The numbers in the post

• 5.1 m long with a 5.4 m turning radius — smaller than a MINI's, courtesy of rear-wheel steering
• Four-wheel drive, 585 hp
• Range-extender version: 400+ km of pure-electric range, with 800V 5C+ ultra-fast charging
• 700 mm wading depth — against the 200–400 mm she cites for typical cars
• Five-star safety across the board for the RHD car, with flying-car assisted-driving and safety standards applied to the vehicle — and, as the post notes, production shared with XPeng AeroHT flying cars and with the domestic LHD version on the same line

The post's closing prompt is a challenge to owners rather than a verdict from us: at this price, in this size class, find a rival whose product strength matches it. The hashtags put it more directly — Wang Fengying's own framing is that the G9L has no rival at its level globally.

Where it sits for Australia

This is the same RHD production batch we covered when the first cars rolled off the Guangzhou line — the milestone that unlocks everything else for this market, since there is no Australian launch, ADR programme or pricing conversation without a right-hand-drive build. The video adds a face and a first-drive impression to that milestone; it does not add Australian timing or pricing, which still have not been announced.

Source: 烟隐烟隐, Weibo — translated & adapted for XPENGTech.