Ora, a brand of the Chinese Great Wall Motors as young as it is controversial, does not stop at a four-door Beetle derivative in Shanghai. The Ora Lightning Cat looks very different, but is also recognizable.
Instead of the Beetle itself, the Ora Lightning Cat seems to get its inspiration from the descendants of that air-cooled Volkswagen. The strongly rounded car is definitely reminiscent of Porsche models, more specifically the 911 and especially the Panamera.
Our Chinese is a bit rusty, but with the help of Google Translate it seems that Ora seems to be targeting women with the ‘Beetle’, while this Lightning Cat should mainly appeal to men. The latest version of Western “gender ideology” has apparently not yet arrived in China.
The electric Lightning Cat has to make supercar performance achievable and does so with two electric motors that push it from 0 to 100 km / h in 4 counts. There are also nice gadgets. Ora speaks of recessed, electrically folding handles, a ditto rear spoiler and a system with which the car must be able to drive autonomously at level 3.
Whether the Lightning Cat will go into production in this form is not entirely clear, but given the track record of this hip brand, it would not surprise us. In any case, the name fits well with the ‘Black Cat’ and ‘White Cat’ and ‘Good Cat’, other models of Ora.