{"id":702567,"date":"2026-05-29T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702567\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:50:16","slug":"meet-the-one-and-only-aussie-owner-of-the-yangwang-u9-xtreme-the-worlds-fastest-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702567\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the one and only Aussie owner of the YangWang U9 Xtreme: The world’s fastest car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most teenage boys dream of one day owning the world\u2019s fastest car. And historically that\u2019s been something badged Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren or Bugatti.<\/p>\n

The fantasy loses a bit of sheen when you promise, eventually, you\u2019ll have yourself a YangWang.<\/p>\n

But if you want the globe\u2019s quickest production car, it\u2019s the U9 Xtreme<\/a> from BYD-owned YangWang<\/a> that holds top honours.<\/p>\n

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This EV hypercar\u2019s stats are ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Its four electric motors can each spin to 30,000rpm and offer a combined 2200kW \u2013 powered by an 80kWh BYD battery \u2013 which helped it achieve a ratified top speed of 496.22km\/h, deposing Bugatti\u2019s Chiron for the world\u2019s fastest crown.<\/p>\n

\"20252025 Yangwang U9 Xtreme is the world\u2019s fastest road car with a top recorded speed of 496.22km\/h.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also lapped the Nurburgring in 6m 59s, claiming title of fastest electric super sports car and first of its type to go under seven minutes at the Green Hell.<\/p>\n

And one, just one, is Australia-bound.<\/p>\n

Ther Aussie buyer? Billionaire Sydney Roosters chairman Nick Politis who also owns Eagers Automotive, Australia\u2019s largest car dealership group, and is a key retailer for BYD.<\/p>\n

That helps get your name top of the list when putting in expressions of interest for a bonkers YangWang.<\/p>\n

\"BYDBYD Chairman and President Wang Chuanfu and Nick Politis AM<\/p>\n

A mere 30 YangWang U9 Xtremes are being made, and it\u2019s believed each chosen country will get a single example. That offers the sort of exclusivity billionaires go gooey for.<\/p>\n

Politis was welcomed to the U9 Xtreme fold at the Beijing auto show, with interested spectators and media showing up to see the 81-year-old Aussie presented with ownership documents and a scale model of the \u2018Wang.<\/p>\n

What he paid for this mad machine wasn\u2019t disclosed, but a BYD Australia spokesman said it would be \u201cnorth of $1 million.\u201d<\/p>\n

Something of a bargain next to a $5 million Bugatti Chiron, and as Politis is worth roughly $2.5 billion, he probably didn\u2019t need to run the lavish spend by his accountant.<\/p>\n

The new owner opted for a red and black colour scheme; same as the world record car. His bespoke cabin trim\u2019s also now in the order book, and the BYD team believe the Aussie-bound example will be with Politis by mid-2027.<\/p>\n

\"YangWangYangWang U9 Xtreme at the Nurburgring where it lapped in less than seven minutes.<\/p>\n

Sticking point is it\u2019s left-hand-drive only. That makes full Australian registration impossible, but Politis said he hopes his team can find a way to do demonstration drives through Aussie cities. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great marketing thing,\u201d Politis said. \u201cWe\u2019ll move it around all our major BYD showrooms, and I\u2019m sure there\u2019ll be people lining up to see it. To see the fastest car in the world will attract a lot of people and expose them to our BYD products.\u201d<\/p>\n

Absolutely. But what about track use? Surely that\u2019s where performance fans want to see this hyper \u2018Wang?<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no,\u201d Politis responded. \u201cI\u2019m not a racing car type of driver mate. We\u2019re going to look after it because it\u2019s unique.\u201d<\/p>\n

A shame, but the U9 Xtreme\u2019s hardly the easiest thing for even an acrobat to climb into, let alone an octogenarian.<\/p>\n

\"YangWangYangWang U9 Xtreme at the 2026 Beijing auto show<\/p>\n

It has Lamborghini-like butterfly doors, is madly low to the ground, the two carbon-backed racing bucket seats don\u2019t look altogether comfy, and the giant door sill would take some navigating. Politis admitted he\u2019d not yet tried getting into one, let alone having a test drive.<\/p>\n

We won\u2019t expect to see this U9 Xtreme get close to its 500km\/h potential on Australian soil, then. Such speedy antics would play havoc with its claimed 400km EV range anyway.<\/p>\n

When it arrives, hopefully spectators can at least enjoy the YangWang\u2019s party trick. It performs a small vertical jump thanks to its active suspension system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most teenage boys dream of one day owning the world\u2019s fastest car. And historically that\u2019s been something badged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105,342055],"class_list":["post-702567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology","tag-yangwang-u9-xtreme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}