Last September a Chinese car went 496km/h on a test track at Papenburg in northern Germany. Neither did the thing a luxury car is supposed to do, which is make a wealthy person want it more than the alternative. Above that age, Chinese buyers still trust foreign badges, partly because they remember when local cars were not merely unfashionable but frightening. The best Chinese interiors are soft-touch the whole way down the door and inside the pockets. So the real question isn’t whether your next Chinese EV will out-accelerate a Ferrari, because it will, on the way to out-accelerating everything else you’ve ever driven.