My BYD Seal test drive experience: Acceleration, ride & handling, range

My BYD Seal test drive experience: Acceleration, ride & handling, range

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I test-drove the premium model and had the performance booked a week prior, I have experienced the pull to be absolutely amazing and really near perfect for our conditions, it gives you half a second to prepare yourself and behaves like a fast ICE car, the pull was somewhat similar to the c300d I drove recently and the braking was sharp, I used the brake pedal slightly harder than required and it took me a second attempt to correct the pedal pressure.

I am very relieved to hear the performance variant also builds up progressively as I have been confused about my decision to switch to premium or not as that would push my booking number back but have been constantly worried if id get in trouble with instant acceleration. So Performance variant it is - in all black!

A special note to the suspension, what an amazing and muted experience, small road undulations felt non-existent, and the car felt muted and silent throughout, it was a few notches above the A6 that I felt was nice and soft suspension. I also test-drove the Ioniq 5 right after and felt a lot more lateral movement on the regular tarmac while the speed breakers seemed more absorptant and easy to go on in the Ioniq 5.

Overall what a fantastic car, i went in with zero expectations and have been blown away, the Ioniq 5 was great but lacks the overall X factor of the Byd inside out.

I am very excited and eagerly waiting for the delivery.

One more point I noticed. The Byd had 49% of battery left and the distance to empty was 315kms. The Ioniq 5 had 65% battery left and the DTE was at 270 kms. So the extra 10kw battery pack results in very usable real-world milage.

I found this drag race video where you can see the lack of instant launch (choice by design I guess) at play

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