THERE SEEMS to be no stopping BYD right now. Sales are soaring and its line-up is swelling, so perhaps it’s only natural that such success has bred enough confidence to launch a luxury offshoot.
It’s probably reductive shorthand to say Yangwang is the Lexus to BYD’s Toyota when this Yangwang U8 SUV aims to swim in a different pool entirely (all too literally, as you’ll discover). Priced at the equivalent of $230,000 in its native China, this truly is evidence BYD is punching upwards.
See one up close and you might assume it’s worth its stocky price in materials alone, so vast is the U8. It measures 5.3m in length, more than two metres in width and tips
