Horsepower is the easiest part when we talk about performance cars – especially the electric ones. You can bolt as much of it as you want into an EV, and it will feel heroic for the first three seconds on a racetrack. Then you arrive at the braking zone, feel two and a half tons of battery and steel pushing the front tires wide, and realize that physics cares very little about marketing. European automakers used to believe that Chinese brands could never figure out the second part of the corner – the actual going through it at speed. But watching Xiaomi SU7 Xtreme testing hard at Nürburgring suggests that those assumptions were completely wrong.
We first saw this hard-edged SU7 variant running laps in Germany back in October,
