**The Future of Automobiles: Chinese Innovations and European Preferences**

Noticing that most people in Europe opt for five-seater cars, while the Chinese prefer seven-seater models is quite interesting. The latter will get it as standard with seven seats, whereas Europeans will now have the option to choose between a five or seven seater configuration. One of the reasons Europeans might prefer the five-seater option is because they value their boot space more, especially when the car is in seven-seat mode. However, folding down the seats creates a bit more room for passengers and luggage.

Interestingly, some design elements from this Chinese prototype will make it to production cars, such as open-pool wood trim, which is already featured on some Mercedes-Benz models. The layout and structure of the interior are also expected to remain similar in production versions. On the other hand, features like bright orange stitching and certain materials may not be included in European models due to their excessive bling factor.

The Chinese have a long wheelbase version of this saloon, which is 60 millimeters longer than the European model available in Europe. This extra length provides more rear knee room for passengers, which is particularly appealing to the Chinese market. Everything else about the interior design, engine, and features remain similar across both versions.

**Audi's Electric Future: Autonomous Cars and Compact SUVs**

If you're tired of driving under certain conditions, Audi's new concept car, the e-tron, comes with a fully autonomous feature. By pressing a button, the steering wheel will move out of your way, the center console will rise up to create more space, and the car will drive you to your destination. The e-tron is powered by a 170-horsepower electric motor at the back, based on the same platform as the Q4 E-Tron and the Q2 Electric.

Interestingly, this car has the electric motor located at the front, unlike most VW Group small electric cars, which will feature it at the rear. This Chinese debut of Audi's e-tron is also notable because it marks the brand's first foray into the compact SUV segment. The long-wheelbase version of the Q2 Electric, which was showcased here, has solved one of its major issues: cramped rear legroom.

**VW ID.Rooms: An Electric SUV with a Unique Design**

Last but not least, we have the VW ID.Rooms concept car, an electric SUV that features sliding doors reminiscent of those found in buildings. The interior is designed to be compact and four-seat only, as it's intended to be a concept car before its production version arrives in 2021. However, when this model launches, there will also be a seven-seater version available.

Although the VW ID.Rooms concept was not destined for European markets, it did make an appearance in China, where the company is always eager to showcase innovative designs and technology. The car's unique features, such as its sliding doors and electric powertrain, are sure to appeal to eco-conscious buyers looking for a futuristic ride.

**The End of the Show**

As we wrap up this special episode, it's clear that Chinese automakers are leading the charge in terms of innovation and design. From their long-wheelbase saloons to compact SUVs with sliding doors, these manufacturers are pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the automotive industry. As for European models, they'll have to catch up on features like open-pool wood trim and electric motors at the front.

As we bid farewell to this special episode, let us not forget that new cars can be expensive. If you're looking to save money on your next purchase, head over to carwow.com and explore their extensive range of deals and discounts.

**The Music Behind Our Show**

We've had a great time bringing you these innovative and intriguing vehicles from around the world. However, our show has come to an end for now, so let's take a moment to appreciate the classic Chinese "Goodbye" music playing in the background as we clear up the stand behind us.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and welcome to the 2019 shanghai auto show now i'm here as a guest of a company called dongchurdi and they're basically like a chinese youtube for cars and we actually got a channel with them but you can see a little logo up there so here at the show i'm gonna be taking you around all the new latest vehicles there's quite a lot of electric cars here what's going on with this some kind of weird thing trying to steal the limelight anyway let's come with the show this is the world premiere of the volkswagen terramont x and it's basically their answer to the audi q8 so it's slightly bigger than a touareg yet it's got a sloping coupe like back end inside it's the usual big vw suv feel quality generally is pretty good though when you go low down not so much like the fact it's got sporty seats with this quilting effect on it and you've got a large infotainment screen and a digital driver's display as well there's absolutely loads of room here in the back i mean look i can really stretch out and of course recline the seats it's like a limousine and despite this cool looking sloping rear end you still have an absolutely massive boot now you might be thinking that seeing as this is as big as an audi q8 it's probably a q8 underneath the skin but no look at this the engine's going the latter way rather than that away like it would do on the q8 so essentially underneath the skin this is just a volkswagen tuareg this is a v6 but it's a 2.5 liter v6 with 300 horsepower which we don't get in the uk you can get it with a two liter turbo it's slightly cheaper and with that engine it starts from around thirty thousand pounds here in china now you'll be able to get this car in america but you won't be able to get it in europe probably because no one would buy a toilet rig this is the lexus lm and it's a posh mpv so we certainly won't be getting this in europe because we don't care about mpvs anymore it's all about suvs but the chinese do love them and actually love these kind of cars so it's actually based on something called the toyota alpha which is already seen as a vip transport here in china this is going to be even possible so you're looking at around 130 000 pounds for this car it's a seven seater and you have two people in the front two people in the middle row and supposedly first class seats then three people in the back row and being alexis it's got a huge silly grill now if you think that's a lot of money well this particular model here with the upgraded interior which has just two seats in the back and huge tv screens you're looking at about 170 000 pounds and that's because of the way that cars are priced in china this car would normally cost something like 70 000 pounds if it was in the uk but when you take things into china you have to double the price because of import duties and tax so you're looking at 140 000 pounds and because something like this is really really desirable there'll be a huge waiting list for it so if you don't want to wait for it and chinese people do not want to wait for stuff you have to pay a premium that's probably about an extra 30 000 pounds add that all together and that's your 170 000 pounds which is insane when you consider that this car is powered by a 2.5 litre four-cylinder hybrid absolutely no way anyway what do you think about my chinese style squat i'm not very good at that it's a bit achy check this out bmw x3m this is the first time bmw has ever given its x3 the full fat m treatment and over there there's also an x4m i tell you what they have definitely spruced up the interior of this x3 with some m goodness so you've obviously got the special m switches there so you can go straight into a sporty mode you've got m dials there's the red starter button there's the red flashes down here and the m gear selector we can change the ferocity of the gear shifts but the thing that really stands out for me are these seats i'm not sure about the color it's almost like baby sick but it does create quite a bit of difference the normal cars interior and the seats themselves they do grip your body very nicely and they have that classic thing that the bmw seats do where they extend for extra under thigh support like a bit of underthigh support there's another first with these cars you see the smaller m engine usually goes into the m3 first that's how it's always been but not anymore it's here in this suv first of all so what have you got it's a straight six twin turbo three liter pushes out 480 horsepower in normal form this is actually the competition pack so it's got 510 horsepower not 60 just over four seconds but it might do under that you know what the germans are like they always understate their performance figures big an m car these suvs have some of the m classic styling upgrades like these cool door mirrors the air vents on the side of the car bigger wheels bigger bumpers at the front and at the back and of course the side skirts as well actually look amazing obviously being an m car you've got some other mechanical upgrades as well so you've got bigger brakes you've got a rated sportier lowered suspension as well there's a rear differential and of course this sports exhaust so it sounds the part as well now which one do you have the x4 or this x3m comment below let me know this is the new bmw x7 now i've already driven the car but one of the things that's still bothering me about it is that big grill now apparently they made it this big to appeal to the chinese market so i want to find out what the chinese actually think about it do you like the grill on this car what do you think of the grill on the x-7 come on i have no idea but it seemed kind of positive how do you feel about this grill do you think that grill is newbie or shabby well that's a resounding result four people liked the grill i think the chinese like the grill so bmw got it right for the majority of you don't speak mandarin shabby means stupid and newbie means awesome so she thought it was awesome here we have the new porsche cayenne coupe so this is actually the turbo model so it sits a little bit lower to the ground it's got bigger wheels but the car itself the coupe hey is slightly different than the normal kit and in the way that it has a steeper windscreen the rear doors are different as well look at that i can't get in it typical the rear doors are different trust me and it has a sloping tailgate hence the coupe name it's actually about two centimeters lower the roof line than the normal kn but obviously being tapered at the back you do have less headroom in the back but what they've done is lowered the rear seats so you do have just enough for adults in the back their driving experience is going to be largely the same as the normal kn being the turbo this has the four liter twin turbo v8 with 550 horsepower over there is the normal kn and that has a three liter v6 single turbo with 340 horsepower now here there's two turbos on the stand there's the normal one and then behind me is one with a unique body package on it so it's got that bright orange paint it's got different surrounds for the bumpers and skirts also it's got the carbon ceramic brakes on it which are an upgrade however the normal car actually has unique brake discs with a special coating on them which apparently give better performance than normal steel brakes another thing to note on this k and coupe is that at standard you get two meter square panoramic glass roof to help make the interior feel nice and light but you can if you want specify a carbon fiber roof upgrade now in terms of pricing in the uk the turbo will cost from around a hundred thousand pounds but in china you can double that it's gonna be about 200 000 pounds one thing i want to show you guys is this look this kn coupe has the largest pop-out wing on any suv not many suvs actually have them only the tesla model x and this is larger than that cars pop-out wing so i finally managed to get inside the cane coupe so i can check out the back seat see if there is enough room i'm sitting up dead straight and yeah look just about okay for me so it's fine really one thing i want to point out though is this look normally the car comes with two rear seats but you can get this three seater bench at no extra cost if you want the added practicality while i'm inside here let's just check out this panoramic glass roof see if it really does help so with it shut it's not that dark actually especially with this lighter interior trim but it really does help by opening up the roof i think i'd stick with this i wouldn't go for the carbon fiber and it does reduce the center of gravity for a bit more sporty handling but i'd much rather have that it's lovely when i'm doing the whole motoring journalist thing final thing to check boot space so yeah a bit less than the normal kn about 15 less space but still look there's loads it's about 600 or so liters he needs more than that a car that's drawing huge crowds here in china is this the mercedes glb it sits between the gla and the glc in the range and it's quite a large car even though it's based on an a-class you can think of it as like a baby gls this one here is a seven season now it's called a concept for now but actually this is pretty much production ready so the production car will go on sale in about 12 months from now and it'll look pretty much the same the only thing is it won't have some of these blingy elements like the brushed aluminium here the crazy wheels and big knobbly tires though weird roof lights but if you forget all that what you're looking at is a car you can actually buy well we'll be able to soon so i've got a rare opportunity to actually sit inside this car no one else has been allowed inside it so space in the middle is actually pretty good and you can of course slide the seats and recline them like that yep now i'm going to put this in a position that's all right for me and then see what it's like in the third row so i just pulled this and it'll give me easy access excuse me get in now this is a compact car and yeah it's a bit tight for adults in the back look at that it's a little bit tight but it's doable and it's not it's not the worst now in europe most people have this as a five-seater but the chinese do like seven-seater cars so they will get it as standard with seven seats whereas it'll be an option for the europeans now one of the reasons as europeans will go for the fire seat is because we like our boot space because in seven seater mode you haven't got much look at it but obviously you can fold down the seats to create a bit more room i quite like this material actually but you're not going to get it on a production car and i've got way more of that kind of brownie leathery suede material it's all very contact carry with this bright orange stitching as well but if you forget the bling the layout and structure of the interior is what you're going to get on the production car now i do hope they do this open pool wood trim they may well do because mercedes does this at the moment on some of its production cars so that's nice that might make it over but the real shininess like on the steering wheel you're not going to have that because you'll be driving along and it just be reflecting in your eyes and give you a migraine here we have a car that you're only going to be able to get in china and you might be thinking wait a minute it's uh a saloon seen that already we're getting that in europe well yes we are but the chinese have a long wheelbase version of course and it's this car made in beijing no less it's 60 millimeters longer than the soon that we get and as a result yeah the chinese just love extra rear knee room and there is quite a lot of extra you really notice it everything else is pretty much the same so the interior design the engine you've got the two liter turbo 306 horsepower not six in about 4.8 seconds all-wheel drive dual clutch automatic gearbox seven gears does it look better longer or shorter i can't really make up my mind welcome to the future transport according to aud so this is the amy although it's written a i me now it's an electric car but let's say you can't be bothered to drive anymore under certain conditions it can go fully autonomous so you press a button and the steering wheel will move out of your way and the center console will move up and it'll create more like a lounge space as the car drives you to whatever destination you want to go to now it's powered by a 170 horsepower electric motor at the back and actually this platform that's based on is a saying that underpins the q4 e-tron and this car hints that audi may be doing a smaller version of that car maybe a q2 e-tron which will go up against the likes of the bmw i3 sorry guys i made a bit of a mistake this isn't going to be a q2e try it it's more like to be an a2 e-tron it's because the q2 each one is actually over there so here it is then the e tron now interestingly this car has the electric motor at the front that concept has it at the back like will all future vw group small electric cars as this is a chinese debut and a chinese car of course it's not just a q2 it's a long wheelbase q2 i'll tell you what a long wheel based version of the q2 is a great idea because one of the problems with that car is that it's a bit tight for rear legroom but this one absolutely fine i think if they did this in europe it'd be very very popular the car looks cool on the outside but i know a lot of people are put off it because it's a bit cramped in the rear but no not here not in china it's great finally then the last car i'm going to show you today is this the vw id rooms so it's an electric suv and its doors open like sliding doors into a building quite cool the interior is just a four seater that's because it's a concept car however there will be a production version in 2021 and that will be a seven seater suv now arrive first in china then they'll get it in europe but it's probably never gonna come to the poor old uk well i'm having to wrap up because basically the show is shutting in fact the music you can hear behind me is the classic chinese goodbye music they're even clearing up the stand behind me so i hope you've enjoyed the video goodbye hey guys hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a thumbs up also let me know which car you would like to see in the uk in the comments below click down there to watch more videos or over there on the save box see how much money you can save on new car at car wowhello and welcome to the 2019 shanghai auto show now i'm here as a guest of a company called dongchurdi and they're basically like a chinese youtube for cars and we actually got a channel with them but you can see a little logo up there so here at the show i'm gonna be taking you around all the new latest vehicles there's quite a lot of electric cars here what's going on with this some kind of weird thing trying to steal the limelight anyway let's come with the show this is the world premiere of the volkswagen terramont x and it's basically their answer to the audi q8 so it's slightly bigger than a touareg yet it's got a sloping coupe like back end inside it's the usual big vw suv feel quality generally is pretty good though when you go low down not so much like the fact it's got sporty seats with this quilting effect on it and you've got a large infotainment screen and a digital driver's display as well there's absolutely loads of room here in the back i mean look i can really stretch out and of course recline the seats it's like a limousine and despite this cool looking sloping rear end you still have an absolutely massive boot now you might be thinking that seeing as this is as big as an audi q8 it's probably a q8 underneath the skin but no look at this the engine's going the latter way rather than that away like it would do on the q8 so essentially underneath the skin this is just a volkswagen tuareg this is a v6 but it's a 2.5 liter v6 with 300 horsepower which we don't get in the uk you can get it with a two liter turbo it's slightly cheaper and with that engine it starts from around thirty thousand pounds here in china now you'll be able to get this car in america but you won't be able to get it in europe probably because no one would buy a toilet rig this is the lexus lm and it's a posh mpv so we certainly won't be getting this in europe because we don't care about mpvs anymore it's all about suvs but the chinese do love them and actually love these kind of cars so it's actually based on something called the toyota alpha which is already seen as a vip transport here in china this is going to be even possible so you're looking at around 130 000 pounds for this car it's a seven seater and you have two people in the front two people in the middle row and supposedly first class seats then three people in the back row and being alexis it's got a huge silly grill now if you think that's a lot of money well this particular model here with the upgraded interior which has just two seats in the back and huge tv screens you're looking at about 170 000 pounds and that's because of the way that cars are priced in china this car would normally cost something like 70 000 pounds if it was in the uk but when you take things into china you have to double the price because of import duties and tax so you're looking at 140 000 pounds and because something like this is really really desirable there'll be a huge waiting list for it so if you don't want to wait for it and chinese people do not want to wait for stuff you have to pay a premium that's probably about an extra 30 000 pounds add that all together and that's your 170 000 pounds which is insane when you consider that this car is powered by a 2.5 litre four-cylinder hybrid absolutely no way anyway what do you think about my chinese style squat i'm not very good at that it's a bit achy check this out bmw x3m this is the first time bmw has ever given its x3 the full fat m treatment and over there there's also an x4m i tell you what they have definitely spruced up the interior of this x3 with some m goodness so you've obviously got the special m switches there so you can go straight into a sporty mode you've got m dials there's the red starter button there's the red flashes down here and the m gear selector we can change the ferocity of the gear shifts but the thing that really stands out for me are these seats i'm not sure about the color it's almost like baby sick but it does create quite a bit of difference the normal cars interior and the seats themselves they do grip your body very nicely and they have that classic thing that the bmw seats do where they extend for extra under thigh support like a bit of underthigh support there's another first with these cars you see the smaller m engine usually goes into the m3 first that's how it's always been but not anymore it's here in this suv first of all so what have you got it's a straight six twin turbo three liter pushes out 480 horsepower in normal form this is actually the competition pack so it's got 510 horsepower not 60 just over four seconds but it might do under that you know what the germans are like they always understate their performance figures big an m car these suvs have some of the m classic styling upgrades like these cool door mirrors the air vents on the side of the car bigger wheels bigger bumpers at the front and at the back and of course the side skirts as well actually look amazing obviously being an m car you've got some other mechanical upgrades as well so you've got bigger brakes you've got a rated sportier lowered suspension as well there's a rear differential and of course this sports exhaust so it sounds the part as well now which one do you have the x4 or this x3m comment below let me know this is the new bmw x7 now i've already driven the car but one of the things that's still bothering me about it is that big grill now apparently they made it this big to appeal to the chinese market so i want to find out what the chinese actually think about it do you like the grill on this car what do you think of the grill on the x-7 come on i have no idea but it seemed kind of positive how do you feel about this grill do you think that grill is newbie or shabby well that's a resounding result four people liked the grill i think the chinese like the grill so bmw got it right for the majority of you don't speak mandarin shabby means stupid and newbie means awesome so she thought it was awesome here we have the new porsche cayenne coupe so this is actually the turbo model so it sits a little bit lower to the ground it's got bigger wheels but the car itself the coupe hey is slightly different than the normal kit and in the way that it has a steeper windscreen the rear doors are different as well look at that i can't get in it typical the rear doors are different trust me and it has a sloping tailgate hence the coupe name it's actually about two centimeters lower the roof line than the normal kn but obviously being tapered at the back you do have less headroom in the back but what they've done is lowered the rear seats so you do have just enough for adults in the back their driving experience is going to be largely the same as the normal kn being the turbo this has the four liter twin turbo v8 with 550 horsepower over there is the normal kn and that has a three liter v6 single turbo with 340 horsepower now here there's two turbos on the stand there's the normal one and then behind me is one with a unique body package on it so it's got that bright orange paint it's got different surrounds for the bumpers and skirts also it's got the carbon ceramic brakes on it which are an upgrade however the normal car actually has unique brake discs with a special coating on them which apparently give better performance than normal steel brakes another thing to note on this k and coupe is that at standard you get two meter square panoramic glass roof to help make the interior feel nice and light but you can if you want specify a carbon fiber roof upgrade now in terms of pricing in the uk the turbo will cost from around a hundred thousand pounds but in china you can double that it's gonna be about 200 000 pounds one thing i want to show you guys is this look this kn coupe has the largest pop-out wing on any suv not many suvs actually have them only the tesla model x and this is larger than that cars pop-out wing so i finally managed to get inside the cane coupe so i can check out the back seat see if there is enough room i'm sitting up dead straight and yeah look just about okay for me so it's fine really one thing i want to point out though is this look normally the car comes with two rear seats but you can get this three seater bench at no extra cost if you want the added practicality while i'm inside here let's just check out this panoramic glass roof see if it really does help so with it shut it's not that dark actually especially with this lighter interior trim but it really does help by opening up the roof i think i'd stick with this i wouldn't go for the carbon fiber and it does reduce the center of gravity for a bit more sporty handling but i'd much rather have that it's lovely when i'm doing the whole motoring journalist thing final thing to check boot space so yeah a bit less than the normal kn about 15 less space but still look there's loads it's about 600 or so liters he needs more than that a car that's drawing huge crowds here in china is this the mercedes glb it sits between the gla and the glc in the range and it's quite a large car even though it's based on an a-class you can think of it as like a baby gls this one here is a seven season now it's called a concept for now but actually this is pretty much production ready so the production car will go on sale in about 12 months from now and it'll look pretty much the same the only thing is it won't have some of these blingy elements like the brushed aluminium here the crazy wheels and big knobbly tires though weird roof lights but if you forget all that what you're looking at is a car you can actually buy well we'll be able to soon so i've got a rare opportunity to actually sit inside this car no one else has been allowed inside it so space in the middle is actually pretty good and you can of course slide the seats and recline them like that yep now i'm going to put this in a position that's all right for me and then see what it's like in the third row so i just pulled this and it'll give me easy access excuse me get in now this is a compact car and yeah it's a bit tight for adults in the back look at that it's a little bit tight but it's doable and it's not it's not the worst now in europe most people have this as a five-seater but the chinese do like seven-seater cars so they will get it as standard with seven seats whereas it'll be an option for the europeans now one of the reasons as europeans will go for the fire seat is because we like our boot space because in seven seater mode you haven't got much look at it but obviously you can fold down the seats to create a bit more room i quite like this material actually but you're not going to get it on a production car and i've got way more of that kind of brownie leathery suede material it's all very contact carry with this bright orange stitching as well but if you forget the bling the layout and structure of the interior is what you're going to get on the production car now i do hope they do this open pool wood trim they may well do because mercedes does this at the moment on some of its production cars so that's nice that might make it over but the real shininess like on the steering wheel you're not going to have that because you'll be driving along and it just be reflecting in your eyes and give you a migraine here we have a car that you're only going to be able to get in china and you might be thinking wait a minute it's uh a saloon seen that already we're getting that in europe well yes we are but the chinese have a long wheelbase version of course and it's this car made in beijing no less it's 60 millimeters longer than the soon that we get and as a result yeah the chinese just love extra rear knee room and there is quite a lot of extra you really notice it everything else is pretty much the same so the interior design the engine you've got the two liter turbo 306 horsepower not six in about 4.8 seconds all-wheel drive dual clutch automatic gearbox seven gears does it look better longer or shorter i can't really make up my mind welcome to the future transport according to aud so this is the amy although it's written a i me now it's an electric car but let's say you can't be bothered to drive anymore under certain conditions it can go fully autonomous so you press a button and the steering wheel will move out of your way and the center console will move up and it'll create more like a lounge space as the car drives you to whatever destination you want to go to now it's powered by a 170 horsepower electric motor at the back and actually this platform that's based on is a saying that underpins the q4 e-tron and this car hints that audi may be doing a smaller version of that car maybe a q2 e-tron which will go up against the likes of the bmw i3 sorry guys i made a bit of a mistake this isn't going to be a q2e try it it's more like to be an a2 e-tron it's because the q2 each one is actually over there so here it is then the e tron now interestingly this car has the electric motor at the front that concept has it at the back like will all future vw group small electric cars as this is a chinese debut and a chinese car of course it's not just a q2 it's a long wheelbase q2 i'll tell you what a long wheel based version of the q2 is a great idea because one of the problems with that car is that it's a bit tight for rear legroom but this one absolutely fine i think if they did this in europe it'd be very very popular the car looks cool on the outside but i know a lot of people are put off it because it's a bit cramped in the rear but no not here not in china it's great finally then the last car i'm going to show you today is this the vw id rooms so it's an electric suv and its doors open like sliding doors into a building quite cool the interior is just a four seater that's because it's a concept car however there will be a production version in 2021 and that will be a seven seater suv now arrive first in china then they'll get it in europe but it's probably never gonna come to the poor old uk well i'm having to wrap up because basically the show is shutting in fact the music you can hear behind me is the classic chinese goodbye music they're even clearing up the stand behind me so i hope you've enjoyed the video goodbye hey guys hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a thumbs up also let me know which car you would like to see in the uk in the comments below click down there to watch more videos or over there on the save box see how much money you can save on new car at car wow\n"