XPeng G9L 'TOP G9L': Five Extreme Tests, in Full

XPeng has released a 17-minute performance film for the G9L — a Top Gear-style test show called "TOP G9L", fronted by actor and racer Yin Zheng (尹正) as the car's "performance inspector" alongside Kang Yue (康岳). It runs five very different tests back to back, and it landed days before the G9L launch event on 17 September.

▶ Play the full film (English subtitles burned in) — the original is Chinese-language, with the subtitles added by XPENGTech.

On YouTube: XPeng G9L 'TOP G9L': Five Extreme Tests.

The five subjects

1. Crest jump — then a lane-change jump. A conventional crest jump is dispatched first, with the hosts pointing to the dual-chamber air springs and adaptive dampers as the reason the body settles in one movement. Then they escalate: a lane change performed while airborne, which the film frames as a structural test — "huge stress both vertically and longitudinally", with a reminder that getting it wrong is how cars end up on their roof. The claimed reason it works is the XVMC chassis system, monitoring tyres, suspension and rear-wheel steering in real time and adjusting continuously.

2. The moose test at 80 km/h. The emergency lane-change test is run at 80 km/h, with the film's on-screen claim that the G9L's figures rival a million-yuan luxury high-performance SUV — the specific comparison named being a Porsche Cayenne Turbo S with PDCC. (A running gag also plays here: "bring on our mystery driver" is repeated over and over before the actual run.)

3. Cross-axle, with the doors open. On the articulation ramp — with wheels lifting off the ground — the hosts open the doors to make the point about body rigidity. The demonstration is done by voice: Xiao P opens all doors and the boot, then closes them again on command.

4. Wading to 700 mm. The car enters wading mode, which softens power delivery and brake energy recovery and raises the suspension to its maximum height. The water depth quoted is 700 mm — at which point one host objects that this is "not a puddle any more, that's a lake". The proof offered afterwards is a water-sensitive test paper placed in the boot: dry after the run, which is the film's proxy for the cabin having stayed sealed.

5. Driver-incapacity assist. The finale is a staged emergency. A "driver" stops responding; the car warns "hands on the wheel", escalates to a red warning, then pulls itself over to a safe stop, triggers an emergency rescue call to XPeng's coordination centre, reports the vehicle's location, and the host explains to the operator that this was a test. The film's closing line on it is the standard one: "There are countless roads, but safety comes first."

What to keep in mind

This is a manufacturer-produced entertainment film, and it is worth reading it that way:

• The moose-test comparison is a claim in the edit, not a measured result with published data;
• the cross-axle door-opening and the wading paper are demonstrations, not independent tests;
• the driver-incapacity segment demonstrates what the system does when it engages — it is a staged scenario, not an assessment of how reliably it triggers;
• the crest jump and lane-change jump are, by the hosts' own framing, stunts rather than everyday scenarios.

What the film is genuinely useful for is seeing the features operate in one place: the air suspension working, the chassis system managing a mid-air lane change, voice control of doors and boot, wading mode raising the car and sealing it, and the incapacity-assist chain running from warning to a real phone call.

Source: XPeng official (小鹏汽车) on Weibo, 15 September 2026 — reposted by XP-WilLiaM郑荣卿. Translated and adapted for XPENGTech; subtitles added by XPENGTech.