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Jia Yueting's FF 91, which has been built for nearly 10 years, finally has its first media dynamic test drive.

Recently, at the delivery event of the seventh car of the FF 91, a media person was invited to take part in a test drive of the FF 91.

The lucky guy has released his test driving experience non-stop, and it is said that he is still driving the limited edition of Boss Jia's car.

Judging from his feelings, the whole seems to be good?

If you want to know his specific experience, please read on.

How to test drive FF 91 the media man, named Jameson Dow, came to Willow Springs, the fastest track in the western United States, to experience the FF 91.

He highlighted two parts of the FF 91: incredible power performance and a very comfortable back seat.

According to his share, he drove the FF 91 across the straight road on the accelerator pedal until it reached 145mph, but showed no sign of losing power.

More importantly, the driving process of FF 91 is very quiet.

Not only the people outside the car could not hear the loud roar of the engine, but also the friction between the tires and the ground inside the car, and it was even a bit "too quiet".

At the same time, although FF 91 is very heavy (vehicle mass 2922kg), there is no obvious roll in the car when turning, especially when passing through smaller bends.

However, if you step on the throttle at the end of the bend, the car will float a little bit.

And for Jameson, the FF 91's brakes are a little soft and it takes a while to really stop the car. This is also what he thinks is the weakness of FF 91.

Another thing that Jameson likes very much is the zero-gravity seat of FF 91.

According to him, the back row has plenty of legroom, and the seat can tilt at 60 °, while at the same time huge and comfortable.

In his opinion, this is the most comfortable back seat he has ever sat, better than the Audi e-tron SUV, and the experience is no different from lying on the famous lazy sofa La-Z-Boy.

Apart from these two points that Jameson praised, the rest were either experienced but well-behaved, or not at all.

For example, the switching mode of the vehicle, because the FF 91 does not have a door handle, it can be closed or opened outside the car or unlocked by gestures on the window, while the other is opened by the touch screen on the B-pillar.

△ gestures to open the door agree that Jameson thinks this is okay, but other ways may be better, such as opening the door automatically when approaching.

In the car machine section of the △, which switches on and off the door by touching the screen, Jameson says there is a time gap between software and hardware when adjusting the seat or steering wheel from the central control, and some controls need to click on many submenus to find them.

And because he was too insolated at that time, he wore polarized sunglasses. When he looked at the central control screen and HUD, he found that it was relatively dark and difficult to see clearly, so he needed to find an angle.

For example, when he was in the diagonal direction of the center control, the brightness of the screen seemed to decrease, which he thought was a bigger problem than not being able to see the HUD clearly.

But there is no similar situation between the copilot display and the instrument screen.

In terms of car-machine interconnection, the mobile phone is easy to connect with the Wi-Fi in the car, and the signal is better than that of the mobile phone.

Jameson said that after scanning a QR code, he was immediately connected to the car's Wi-Fi, and his phone received a bunch of notifications (though he also complained that his phone was lame).

Jameson didn't experience some features, such as seat massage, back-row entertainment screen, and smart driving, and the back-row entertainment screen couldn't even open down.

As for whether the price is worth it, Jameson said that although FF 91 has something he likes and the design is high-end, the starting price of $249000 (about 1.8221 million yuan) is not reasonable (and because he won't buy a car worth more than $200000).

FF 91: Jia Yueting built a car in 9 years, but judging from the information when the FF 91 went on sale, it's possible that Jameson still has some features that he hasn't experienced.

Let's take a look at the FF 91.

It officially went on sale at the end of May this year, and there are two versions, the Futurist version for $249000 (about 1.8221 million yuan) and the limited edition for $309000 (about 2.2612 million yuan).

The length of the car is 5250mm, high 1611mm, wheelbase 3200mm, the whole vehicle mass is about 2.9t.

The vehicle has three motors, the first and the second, and a single-speed ratio gearbox, all-wheel drive, with a maximum power of 1050 horsepower, with a total torque of 1977N ·m and a wheel torque of 13285N ·m.

In terms of performance, the acceleration time of 0-60 mph (about 96km/h) is 2.27 seconds.

Battery comes standard with 142kWh battery pack, CLTC battery life exceeds 800km, and supports DC 500A fast charging.

In terms of intelligence, FF 91 is piling up hardware.

The cockpit chip is a dual Qualcomm 8155, which includes a HUD head display, a digital dashboard, a central control screen, a 17-inch passenger display screen, a 27-inch rear display screen and more than 10 screens that can access three 5G networks at the same time.

The voice assistant supports the understanding of natural language, context and complex commands, as well as private customization. Jameson didn't mention what the voice assistant experience was.

Smart driving uses the Nvidia Drive Orin platform, lidar boarding, sensors and cameras, millimeter wave and ultrasonic radar, a total of more than 30.

However, only basic L2 functions are available at the time of delivery, automatic parking, highway and urban pilot driving functions are subject to OTA, including one of the selling points of FF 91, which can create exclusive maps, and self-driving in the private sector is still a futures.

Jameson also did not experience remote control of the car, watch control and other functions, so it is no wonder that Jameson's test drive experience is the most prominent power performance.

Another important development is that the production progress of FF 91 has been exposed.

When the sale began at the end of May, officials announced three stages of delivery plans:

The first phase: the first batch of industry experts will be delivered on May 31, US time.

The second phase: us time begins in August to jointly create delivery.

The third stage: full delivery, the company delivers the vehicle to all users who pay in full.

Judging from the current progress, the FF 91 is still in the second phase, with only seven vehicles delivered, all aimed at celebrities and online celebrities.

For example, the famous luxury real estate agent Jason Oppenheim, star agent Kelvin Sherman, the delivery of the seventh car, the owner is F1 racing driver, Le Mans champion Justin Bell.

The reason for making a batch-by-batch, slow delivery plan is likely to be the slow pace of production.

According to Faraday's future new CEO, the company aims to produce 0.5 cars per hour in the short term, that is, one per hour in two hours, and hopes to build two per hour by early 2025.

In other words, FF 91 currently takes more than two hours to build one, with an annual production capacity of about 2500 vehicles.

Based on Jia Yueting's outstanding debt of close to 13 billion, 7063 units need to be sold to repay the debt (including 300 limited editions).

At this rate of production, it will take at least more than two years for Boss Jia to return home.

Reference link:

Https://electrek.co/2023/10/26/the-faraday-future-ff91-actually-exists-and-i-was-the-first-media-to-drive-it/

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: smart car reference (ID:AI4Auto). The author: have a car and have evidence.

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