2023 GWM Ora Review | Australia's Cheapest EV Touches Down | Drive.com.au
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The GWM Ora promises to bring Australian buyers all-electric power in a pint-sized, eye-catching package - with appealing pricing to boot. We take it for a brief test drive and share our first impressions
00:00 Introduction
00:41 Pricing & Specification
01:45 Charging
01:54 Design
02:38 Boot Space
03:26 Front Seats
05:00 Second Row
06:09 On The Road
12:51 Summary
#gwm #gwmora #2023gwmora
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I am sold, it looks so agile and easy to park, I love the color scheme as well, so cool
My cousin got this car for over a year in Thailand and it works awesome
My Family purchased the Ora Good Cat in Thailand home being in Bangkok. It was great to drive but range anxiety was biggest concern with charging stations and not to mention capacity of them in AMPs with regional travel. Home charging was suitable without concern for metro commute in Bangkok.
I hope structure of charging network for Australia can support after sales of EV charging fast in both metro and regional.
Overall this care is great and only negative is linear exhilaration with form of ABS causing tyre screeching noise like in the movies when you put your foot down.
The ORA Good Cat from Thailand is great and wonder why they not call it Good Cat in the AU.
Perhaps it may put off our dog owners?
It did well in the crash tests, and better than I expected.
Rated 5 star by Euro NCAP safety rating
I like it, the world needs more small cars
Excellent presenter, well done.
This car was just launched in Malaysia and reviews have been good so far.
And, as usual, Susannah is stunning as always 😍.
#1 BEST Selling EV 2022 In Thailand
Great review thanks, a comparison to byd and mg4 would be great when you can get them all together. I’ve seen some UK reviews that don’t rate the ora as highly as the mg4 so am interested in your view
Just to help you the reason why they have mini looking thing etc is coz Great Wall have a deal with BMW development of the cars . Also you forgot to talk about the little sensor on the A pillar detects you tired or and if you locked live things like a pet or your baby in car as you walk away it will alert you .
to be exact: designed by ex Porsche designer.
It’s the worst sensor ever. I turned it off in the Jolion I drove for 3 weeks. Far too intrusive even when you just looked down to see your speed it would complain at you. Wasn’t liveable with at all.
@@jerrymyahzcat Strange. I've been driving the Jolion for 7 months now, it only once thought I was sleepy...perhaps there's a sensitivity setting?
@@John-yx6yz it wasn’t the sleepy detection. That sensor performs 2 functions. Sleepy/drowsy and eyes off the road (attention). I never had the sleepy detection but it was insistent if I looked at the speedo or centre console to change the aircon for example. It would tell me to keep my eyes on the road. I turned that off - and left the sleepy detection on.
GWM is now arriving in Brazil, I'm buying a hybrid Haval H6. What is the rating of GWM vehicles in Australia?
Around 7 out of 10
@@retrodude9185 thank You
Selling pretty well. Nicely equipped and designed
Noticed a few in these driving around Bangkok , looks ok
Best Selling in Thailand in '22
7:50 how much for the human sat nav option? 😀
😈😈😈 well you have an articulated sense of well being , the way you show in great detail with explanations 😈😈😈
My friend in China, bought this EV for 100k RMB. Equivalent to 21k Australian dollars. Aussies earn too much money so pay big on imported cars....
Nothing to do with putting the cars on ships and putting them through AU specific import processes then
@@theairstig9164yeah, no need to consider shipping costs from China to aus, forget about shipping insurance costs, hey why bother with storage costs? Ignore PDI by local Aussies paid in local labour rates, take away the profit margin necessary in Aust, then it’ll be about the same price in China! Some mothers do have ‘em.
@@jacobheinz8236 It's $10,000 for an Individual to import a car shipping,taxes,compliance,inspections etc. A large scale importer would do it cheaper. The Chinese model has a smaller Motor. So a 35 to 40,000 price may have been achievable. But everyone is Price gouging at the moment including the Banks.
0:31 and 3:01 sneak peeks of the (pink?) Ora Sport are a bonus in this video.
Suckers ..sneak peak on a closed track ..u can see the lockable bollard gate and it's fenced off ...look at your surroundings
I own tesla but i loved this little car. Well designed.
Wish the Model 3 had a ‘you’re about to curb the wheel’ warning…on the other hand the Ora’s ‘corrective’ steering seems even more annoying on country roads than our Emergency Lane Departure Avoidance.
The corrective steering in the Jolion from GWM is nasty too.
Hi. Could you please test the GT version? Thanks
We're keen to get behind the wheel of the GT too, but for the most part changes to the Ora GT are cosmetic or equipment-specific, so the driving and dynamics won't change. We've taken a deeper look at the Australian-spec Ora, so you can read all about it at www.drive.com.au/reviews/2023-gwm-ora-review-australian-first-drive/ and catch the video of the Ora Extended Range at ua-cam.com/video/dyZC4BPFsls/v-deo.html
Why you should pay for a hatch back for 50k.. It should be between 18-28k maximum
The one thing you will never see in a GWM is the car driving down the road with the blinker on.
GWM needs to sell this vehicle in the USA 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦. It would be a tremendous sales hit!!
no its a rip off and too ugly
wait for BYD small car (forgot the name). but, US suddenly put additional $7K tarrif for imported EV car, so expect higher price.
ps: all ora cars are designed by ex Porsche designer.
@@breadnewbie6326 its so ugly makes me vomit blood
would never buy a car made in China
why would i waste my life savings on a $44k ugly lemon?
that USA thing has nothing to do with me and even if it did I would also never want to buy a American made car as they also rubbish ugly lemons
@@breadnewbie6326 Porsche makes the worst ugliest lemons = so revolting and only a NAZI worshiper should like anything German
@@TimBorg your money, your choice. nobody care about what you like / don't like.
Only one trim level, just battery size and number of motors difference?
What type of battery, LFP?
I may be incorrect (this is per wikipedia) but I believe the 47.8kwh battery is LFP but the bigger 59.1/63.1kwh battery is NMC.
3 trims. 2 type of motors. LFP.
There will be two trim levels across three variants. Standard Range and Long Range will share the same equipment, plus there will be a GT version above that. In Australia all will share the same 126kW/250 motor, which is only a single motor, front-wheel drive set-up, there's no dual motor version of the Ora available.
Overseas the Standard Range uses a 48 kWh lithium-ion phosphate (LFP) battery, whereas the Long Range and GT runs a 63 kWh lithium-ternary (NMC) battery. We've asked GWM Australia if battery chemistry will be the same here, but they were unable to confirm.
45k too expensive, 35-40k will be reasonable
Car dealership cashing in?....
25k*
@@philipchin6802 car dealership knows they won’t see the customer again after the initial sale
$45k for a Yaris, wtf are they thinking?? This car is like $20k in China. You can get ZS EV for this money and it's a SUV.
@@bingyangyu6327你没事吧😅😅
The 2023 model in China is using the column shift /steering wheel gear, shift, I wonder why in the UK and Australia is still the same as the 2022 model
It looks like right-hand drive vehicles (including those sent to the UK and Thailand) are a little slower to catch up and retain the console-mounted gear selector. The car we drove in this video was a pre-production vehicle so some features may be slightly different, although it looks like the gear selector won't change before deliveries begin.
Does the single pedal mode mean brake regen ?
It does. The car will regen during deceleration with the one-pedal mode on or off, but using one-pedal increases the rate of energy harvesting to help slow the vehicle more quickly.
@@Drivecomau thanks
Great to see an affordable ev. That nose badge needs an intervention though. It looks a bit naughty. 😳
Why can’t GWM have a consistent logo. The GWM cannon has a circle thing, others have GWM. Come on, pick a consistent logo.
ev revolutionary
Prices are still too high and size too big. We need a sub 4 meter 4 door hatch back with smaller battery, therefore lighter weight, faster to charge in 240 V garage plug in, cheaper to buy , just to do all my shopping runs ,school run, leave it at train stations, visit friends, go to beach etc. damn it how many times do we need to tell you !😂
Ora make a smaller and much cheaper car called the Black Cat, but I don't think it would be sold in Australia etc as it probably wouldn't be able to do under NCAP tests due to it's small and low cost nature.
Fiat 500e would be nice, or updated Zoe.
That would be NETA V
#2 HIGHEST Registration in Jan'23
The issue is still currently battery manufacturing constraint. As of the publication there is no BYD seagull with a sodium lithium hybrid battery. That will change by the end of 2023 . Spot prices for raw lithium carbonate are crashing now. This is going to sound surreal but once the battery input costs drop by 80% from what they are today, and the power density goes up from 160Wh per kg to 200 your cheap city car will come. Not before. Patience!
@@theairstig9164 hey, thanks for these infos, I will wait patiently like Buddha. I hope the government or car manufacturers will not then come up with other excuses to gouge the consumers.👍
I just want to know if it'll be a rustbucket in a couple of years, that's all.
Wait two years and we will both find out
@@theairstig9164wait longer like 5 years, we all wanna find out, if cars do rust.
At least the paint won't peel like Toyota and Hondas, that's probably for sure 😂
The driver monitoring system does NOT work in this car in NZ and Australia, only works in the GT model. It is supposed to work but GWM China don't have a fix for it. They have been trying to fix my cars DMS for 8 months now. it is not a 5 star ANCAP safety without the driver monitoring system working. please share for the safety of ORA drivers
But this is the Ultra spec isn't it? Sunroof doesn't come in the standard spec. Maybe i missed you say this.
The cars shown in this video were 'pre-production' before the GWM Ora launched in Australia. There were based on overseas specifications, and slightly different to what we get in Australia. The panoramic sunroof is standard of the GT and Ultra grades, but not available on the Standard Range or regular Extended Range.
Called the same in Thailand
Is this the car that has just been recalled?
Good cat or bad cat
Saw a demo one in a shopping centre. Def a girls car.
color: probably not turquoise, but tosca. but I'm not sure, either.
I really like this car.i will have to
visit a gun dealer.👍
ORA BEST Selling EV in Thailand in 2022
I don’t get why they just don’t call it a ‘Funky Cat’? What happens when they release other vehicles from the Ora brand?
In the case of the Lightning Cat, they're previewing it in Australia as the GWM Ora Sport, so it looks like all Ora vehicles are set to get a reworked name for Australia.
GWM (Great Wall Motor) will build electric MINIs for BMW In China.
It'll turn Austin/Morris/Leyland/Rover Mini into GWM Mini will share the MG fate; What have GWM done to deserve that? Mr Bean is very disappointed...
Do they deliver by balloon? 🤔
Careful it could be a US balloon..heard they down one of their own 🙄
'Murican kind of the question 🤡
'gear shifter' there are no gears. there is forward and reverse guys.
Sorry but, I bought the top of the range, fully optioned MG ZS EV with a full 7 year unlimited km warranty for $48,900, paid less in rego and insurance and got a $6000 rebate from the Queensland state government, effectively I paid $43000 for top of the range, fully optioned, so perhaps the ora is not the cheapest ev
It wont' be a cheap supermini for being an electric car than cheap old superminis, then go catch one way ticket to public transport🚉on the cheap.
Articulate presenter 👏🏻
No for me at that price should be. Half that price
No way pay this amount for it.
You do realise that this car is an almost direct copy of the 2009 K12 Nissan Micra, right.
A funky car still loved by its owners......my daughter calls her's the Tardis....for obvious reasons to those that own them.
If this looks like a 'direct copy' of a k12 micra then your eyes are not sharp lol. It has visual similarities to a variety of cars/brands but is really no 'copy'.
the ORA designer is ex Porsche designer.
The style reminds of a 2005ish Nissan Micra, also your accent sounds sooo familiar, you wouldn't happened to have grown up Geelong way by any chance
This model reviewed is not what we can order in Australia, unfortunately they have skimped out on offering the sunroof, which is standard in many other countries 😞
frankly, that's strange. I suspect the importer choose the cheapest trims and sell them at high margin.
The No car. Ora means no
only a few days left in april.
If you have to use the brake pedal in an Ev then the Ev doesn't have a good one pedal mode.
it can, if the regen activated.
@@breadnewbie6326 some are not strong enough to bring the car to a stop without using the brakes. It's poor design.
@@MatthewBayard I haven't try it, have you?
@@breadnewbie6326 I've watched other reviews who have said this car is not one pedal driving. My original comment still stands. It's one pedal mode for EVs otherwise it's a bad EV.
@@MatthewBayard feel free to define what is a good ev.
Very expensive for what it offers...
poor review.no mention of safety systems,active cruise.battery chemistry?.what was trip meter saying about kw per 100 km.
50k ? Ill go with BYD everyday rather than this cheap Porsche copy
Byd looks ugly tho
Spend another $10k and get the model 3
May as well call it the “Copy Cat” ☺️
By Ex Porsche designer😂
they might sell some EVs if they started at 30k and they still need to work on lowering the weight, this one's 1540kgs
I drove a GWM Haval Jolion for 3 weeks. Nasty nasty car. Worst new car I’ve ever driven. The safety intervention aids were far too intrusive. You would indicate to leave the motorway and it would wrench you back on. Someone would be close behind and it would flash the hazard lights crazily. If you took your eyes off the road for a second to look at the instruments it would demand you pay attention. I turned off all the aids I could. Worst implementation of safety ever. Couldn’t live with that. Other manufacturers have done a much better job. Sounds like this Ora was interfering too much too.
You know what's the best safety feature of all BEING ABLE TO DRIVE PROPERLY to many ppl are relying on tech when just learn to drive properly ..I've been driving 30 years and I've NEVER needed a airbag or abs and I've spent STUPID amounts of time on the road as a roadside AA contractor as well monthly trips to Auckland and back ..I've had all the same cars for over 10 years ..bought a mpv turbo and it didn't last 5 years ..I've fixed it and it's got problems AGAIN yet my 1988 courier Ute never fails ....and it will outlast anything being made now ....these electric cars are a phase ...just think how much driving my 88 Ute will do with that 40k
@@yodad4776 Not having airbags is just plain dumb. You could be in a crash where you are a perfect driver and someone slams into you totally out of your control. Airbags save lives and are a passive safety system. Same with ABS - it can pulse brake and control stability better than any human ever no matter how good you are. It’s only worse in gravel when you want the gravel to pile up in front of the wheels if you want to stop faster but even with ABS you can steer around things while maintaining control that you CAN’T do while skidding and piling up gravel in front of the wheels even if it takes longer to stop so there’s that. Also ABS not much use on ICE but can help. Believe me I’ve done 2 advanced driving courses using ABS - it’s a winner even if you can “drive properly”.
But I 100% agree about being able to drive properly.
Driving students are these days telling their instructors that they “don’t need to look in the mirrors or over their shoulder” as they have blind spot monitoring and they “don’t need to pay much attention” as the car has lane keeping or adaptive cruise or AEB. They will say “no worries I have a camera” etc too. Absolute rubbish. You need to be able to drive properly without ANY aids first and then sure some of these system are an added help.
Lastly you are delusional if you believe older cars are in ANY way better than modern ones. They facts are out. Modern cars ARE far superior and safer.
As a gay male, this car is absolutely off!
Ugly knock off vw beetle
by ex Porsche designer
I long for the day when the ' cat ' is a gender neutral animal.
With out a doubt the absolute worst looking piece of trash car I have ever seen in my entire life
They only cheap to buy in China.
that is so ugly I would rather a Nissan Leaf for EV Hatch
Yes, get Nissan Leaf 🤣
@@arbutus12 Yes well it is a million times better
in the end of this year we can compare their sales numbers & see how many agree with you.
@@breadnewbie6326 who cares
not me
Nissan Leaf might be discontinued soon, if not already is because it is not selling. It is one million times better than Chinese made. You Need to buy one before it is gone. And Nissan, Subaru, Mazda, even Honda are in trouble because they are behind in their EVs and technology. More than half of “cheap, junk, unreliable, unsafe” EVs sold in the world are Chinese made.