China’s First Supercar Review Just Revealed What Your Next Car Might Be Reporting Home

A CarScoops reviewer drove two laps in China's first production supercar on a track outside Zhengzhou.

He walked away impressed by a machine packing more than twelve hundred horsepower.

But there is one reason American drivers should think twice about what rides along in it.

Two Laps Outside Zhengzhou in BYD's New Flagship

The car is called the YangWang U9, and it comes from BYD, the Chinese company that has outsold Tesla worldwide in electric vehicles in multiple quarters of 2026.

CarScoops calls it China's first real attempt at a production supercar.

The numbers are not small.

The U9 makes roughly 1,280 horsepower.

It hits 100 kilometers per hour in just over two seconds.

It reportedly turns a Nurburgring lap in under eight minutes.

The reviewer praised the car's agility, its sharp steering, and a hydraulic suspension system that reads the road in real time.

The brakes turned grabby at low speed and the car slid wide once it hit the limit of its tires.

He also admitted he worries the U9 could end up a one-off halo project rather than proof BYD can build this way at scale.

The Price Tag That Puts It Next to a Porsche

BYD is selling the U9 in China for about 1.8 million yuan, which converts to roughly 269 thousand dollars, putting it next to a McLaren Artura or a Porsche 911 GT3.

The reviewer was blunt that it still doesn't handle like a Porsche, doesn't thrill like a Lamborghini, and doesn't stir emotion like a Ferrari, calling it a great first swing rather than a real contender against those names.

That is the review version of the story.

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The bigger story is what China is building underneath it.

What Eighty Two Percent of the Supply Chain Really Means

Transportation expert Mike Caudill has been warning about exactly this kind of vehicle for months.

"82% of the supply chain in the EV market comes from China," Caudill said.

He is not talking about just Chinese brands.

He is talking about the batteries, chips, and software that increasingly sit inside vehicles no matter which name is on the hood.

Caudill has pointed out that modern vehicles constantly share data between the car and the driver's phone, and nobody outside the manufacturer knows exactly where that data ends up.

A Korea Economic Institute analysis has reached a similar conclusion, flagging connected Chinese vehicles as a direct channel for data collection beyond the reach of American regulators.

Biden's commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, warned back in 2024 that Chinese EVs posed a national data security risk.

"Do we want all that data going to Beijing?" Raimondo asked.

Her administration talked about it while Chinese EV supply chain exposure kept growing the whole time.

Trump's trade team is the reason that warning actually turned into a wall.

A 100 percent tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles has kept cars like the U9 off American roads and American driveways, and BYD still is not allowed to sell it here because of it.

The CarScoops review treats the U9 as a fun curiosity from a closed market most Americans will never touch.

That is the right instinct as long as the tariff wall holds.

The engineers in Shenzhen and Zhengzhou are not building toward a closed market forever.

They are building a playbook, and every American automaker and every American regulator should assume China intends to use it the moment the tariff wall comes down.

Sources:

• Carscoops Staff, "We Drive China's First-Ever Super Car, And Boy Do We Have Thoughts," Carscoops, October 2026.
• Fox Business, "Americans Should 'Absolutely Be Concerned' About Data Collection, Spying From Chinese EVs," Fox Business, 2026.
• Korea Economic Institute of America, "How Tariffs and Connected Vehicle Risks Limit Chinese EVs in the United States," Korea Economic Institute of America, 2026.
• American Journal of Transportation, "Raimondo Warns Chinese EVs Pose National Data Security Risks," American Journal of Transportation, January 31, 2024.