Start with what the Ora Good Cat is: a 5-door hatchback, built from 2020, in the decade the industry is turning electric. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Emanuel Derta.
Where it came from
The Ora Good Cat (Chinese: 欧拉好猫; pinyin: Ōulā Hǎomāo) is a battery electric hatchback produced by Great Wall Motor under its electric car marque Ora since November 2020. It is marketed as the Ora Funky Cat in several markets, GWM Ora 03 in Europe, Brazil and Indonesia and GWM Ora in Australia and Nepal.
Under the skin
the output is 143 hp. On the scales it comes to 1438–1560 kg. That is roughly 99 horsepower per tonne: brisk everyday performance. Drive goes through a 1-speed direct-drive. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2650 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
In the Great Wall Motor line-up the Ora Good Cat has a clear place: it replaced the Great Wall Florid; it handed the line to the Ora 5; the factory was Taizhou, Zhejiang. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Kia EV6, the Moskvitch JAC Jiayue X4, the JAC Group Sol X7. Nearby in the Great Wall Motor catalogue sit the Great Wall Coolbear and the Great Wall Cowry.