After a demonstration ride in a pre-production vehicle, driven by a chassis engineer around an empty parking lot near the company's Los Angeles HQ, I can confirm that the FF91 is neck-snappingly fast, and takes tight turns without much fuss. The official 0-60 time is 2.39 seconds. A 130 kilowatt-hour battery (30 percent larger than Tesla's biggest) should deliver a range of 378 miles. The loooong wheelbase should mean it turns like a bus, but active rear steering means makes it sashay through a perimeter of cones that a Tesla Model X plows right over.
But there's a big difference between building 12 demo models (the current production output) and building at scale.
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