Say hello to the latest in a growing line of stunning Vision Gran Turismo concepts. Xiaomi calls its Vision Gran Turismo the first in the series of cars designed for the game to come from a tech company. The digital design was on display in the metal in Barcelona, showing off its blend of a shape with ultra-low drag and active airflow like nothing we've seen before. First Chinese Automaker In The GT Series Xiaomi In January, Xiaomi became the first Chinese automaker with a car in the Gran Turismo series of games. Its SU7, a Nürburgring record-setting road car, joined along with race cars from Porsche and Hyundai.Xiaomi said that the idea behind the Xiaomi Vision Gran Turismo was to answer the question of choosing low drag for top speed or downforce for corners with a "yes" instead of a compromise. The company said that for an electric hypercar, neither one is better. Instead, it wanted to make a breakthrough by working to deliver both.Xiaomi The car's shape is very teardrop. Every surface is made for the smoothest airflow possible. If there's something structural that sticks out, it's been made with the cross-section of an airfoil.Most cars, even active aero cars, use wings to generate downforce. They might move, and they might hide some of the time, but whenever they're in play, they add drag. Xiaomi says that its air channels guide the wind through the body, adding downforce without drag.The coolest part is what it calls the Active Wake Control System. It's a matrix of tiny holes that go around the gigantic taillight. The system uses real-time data on what the car is facing and trying to do. It then adjusts the airflow to push turbulence away from the tail, cutting drag.Xiaomi even calls the wheels a breakthrough. The wheel cover stays in place, reducing the drag of a rotating wheel. It's held in place using magnets. You can see inside, and it can pull air in to cool the brakes, but the drag reduction is a big deal. Concept Over Reality Is The Vision Way Xiaomi The result is a car that delivers a coefficient of drag of 0.29, downforce of -1.2, and an aero efficiency rating of 4.1. Confused by those numbers? You should be.Let's start with the drag coefficient figure, which isn't exactly impressive. The SU7's is far lower, at 0.195, and McLaren's Speedtail hypercar is 0.278. But there's more to the drag story than just cD. That downforce figure (we're making some educated guesses because Xiaomi didn't bother with pesky details) suggests it makes 1.2 times its weight in downforce. That's a massive figure. The aero efficiency rating, then, is the ratio of downforce to drag. Higher numbers mean more downforce without slowing the top speed.Not that any of it matters, because like almost every other Vision Gran Turismo car, this is a pure concept. It's a car that looks amazing and has an incredibly futuristic-looking interior. One where the door panels become the outer seat bolsters.But it's a car for a game, so the special Hyper OS meant to show you more data and put sensors everywhere is just a victory lap. The same goes for its integration into Xiaomi's XiaoAI home assistant. Does your hypercar need to be integrated with your smart home? Of course not, but that wouldn't benefit Xiaomi much, would it?This is the 51st Vision Gran Turismo concept vehicle, and that means it should be coming to the game soon. But neither Xiaomi nor the Gran Turismo team have said when. Just that the info will be shared at a later date.Source: Xiaomi
