The Hongqi H9 is the Hongqi that answered a simple question — how much car can this badge carry? — with 185 kW from 2.0 L CA4GC20TD-31 I4. It was built from 2020, in the decade the industry is turning electric. Yangfeng Ding drew it.
The hardware
Power comes from 2.0 L CA4GC20TD-31 I4; 185 kW is the published figure; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1875-2100 kg. Work it out per tonne and you get about 99 horsepower — brisk everyday performance. It shifts through a 7-speed Dual-clutch transmission / 8-speed Automatic transmission. The wheelbase is 3060 mm (H9) / 3290 mm (H9+). These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Changchun, Jilin, China. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Porsche Taycan, the Kia EV6, the Great Wall Motor Ora Good Cat — show what else the money bought that year. Its Hongqi stablemates include the Hongqi and the Hongqi 774.