Premium electric car brand Zeekr, a Geely company, is coming to New Zealand at some point. And with any luck one of the new models will be this sensational looking 007 GT. It’s a swoopy looking estate that, in top form, will show a clean pair of heels to many ICE powered supercars.
Likely as not it will have a name change for the British but may end up here with the Bond name. Though that ‘licence to kill’ numeric may not be entirely appropriate. Licence to thrill, perhaps.
The shooting brake is based on the Zeekr 007 saloon that launched in China last year. There’s the recognizable sharp front-end with a side-to-side light strip. A swooping, low riding silhouette with a floating roof reminds of the Lucid Air design.
At the aft are sculpted rear haunches, subtle spoilers, slimline LED taillights and roof rails for carrying lifestyle equipment. A LiDAR sensor atop the windscreen is for advanced driver assistance.
nside will be the same as the sedan with a 15-inch OLED touchscreen and a 13-inch digital driver’s display. Up ahead is a 36-inch augmented reality head-up display. Zeekr says there is class-topping cabin space in the rear, along with at least the 462 litre luggage capacity of the saloon.
It’s sizeable too, measuring up at 4864mm in length, 1900mm in width and 1445mm, similar to an A6 e-tron. The 007 GT rides on the PMA2+ platform that underpins the Smart #5 SUV.
Go for the single-motor, rear-wheel drive variant and you’ve 310kW at your disposal. The AWD variant makes do with 475kW, enough to cover off the scoot to 100 in under 3sec, if it’s anything like the saloon variant. A 10 to 80 per cent recharge takes around 10 minutes, thanks to an 800v architecture. Range will likely be around 800km with the 100kWh battery, though there’s also a 75kWh version.
Not up for this big of a spend? Then there’s always the Zeekr X crossover which should be roughly half the price of the 007 GT. And the smaller but also racy 001 would be less expensive too.
