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Xiaomi Corporation (HKG: 1810) unveiled its Vision Gran Turismo concept supercar at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona on February 28, 2026, marking the company's most ambitious automotive design statement to date and its formal entry into one of motorsport culture's most prestigious concept vehicle programmes.

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The Vision Gran Turismo initiative is run by Polyphony Digital, developer of the Gran Turismo racing simulation franchise. The programme invites the world's leading automotive brands to design unrestricted concept vehicles for the GT simulation platform, with past participants including Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Mercedes-Benz. Xiaomi is the first Chinese brand to receive an invitation.

The reveal was not entirely a surprise. On February 27, a Xiaomi supercar was spotted in Barcelona, its smooth, muscular bodywork and "XIAOMI"-branded wheel hub covers visible in the spy photos.

The company had also teased a silhouette on its official X account ahead of the event, billing it as a "One More Thing" during an evening that also featured the international launch of the Xiaomi 17 smartphone series.

Li Tianyuan, Xiaomi Auto's chief designer, presented the car on stage and outlined the aerodynamic philosophy: maximum performance with minimum visual noise. Every body line and aperture serves a functional aerodynamic purpose, with no decorative elements added for aesthetics alone. The results are striking on paper — a drag coefficient of 0.29 Cd, 1.2 tonnes of downforce, and an aerodynamic efficiency ratio of 4.1.

Two engineering features underpin those numbers. The first is an Active Wake Control System, in which dense micro-perforations around the taillights allow the car to actively eject high-pressure airflow rearward based on speed and steering angle, dispersing turbulence before it accumulates.

The second is a magnetic levitation low-drag wheel hub cover: a semi-transparent panel that remains stationary via a magnetic system at high speed while the inner wheel rotates freely, allowing airflow to pass the wheel arch cleanly while simultaneously providing wind-cooling to the brake system during heavy use.

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Viewed from the side, the cabin takes the form of a suspended teardrop, with exterior airflow able to pass either over the roofline or beneath the cockpit floor. A large annular outlet dominates the tail, integrating the through-type taillights — a scaled-up evolution of the square ring lamps seen on the SU7 production sedan — into the diffuser structure itself.

Inside, Li described the experience as closer to a modern living room than a conventional performance car. The wraparound sofa-style cockpit has no rigid physical dividers, and the infotainment system — which borrows the sky-screen technology previewed in the production YU7 SUV — has been stripped of nested menus.

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The display adapts to the current driving mode, surfacing only the most relevant data. An X-shaped steering wheel and a row of physical controls sit within reach on the right side of the cockpit. A bespoke racing simulator, built to match the Vision GT, was also shown at the event.

The conceptual groundwork for the collaboration was laid in June 2025, when Polyphony Digital's Kazunori Yamauchi visited Xiaomi's facilities and the two companies announced that the SU7 Ultra would join Gran Turismo 7 as the first Chinese domestic-brand production car in the series. That car, in prototype form, had already set a Nürburgring Nordschleife lap time of 6 minutes 46.874 seconds — at the time, the fastest four-door car on record at that circuit.

The Vision GT, unconstrained by road regulations or production engineering limits, is positioned as a statement of where Xiaomi sees the ceiling of its automotive ambition. The Barcelona debut was also a deliberate international branding exercise: Xiaomi has indicated plans to begin overseas deliveries in 2027, and a high-visibility concept reveal at the world's largest mobile technology conference is precisely the kind of scene-setting that precedes such a move.

For now, those who want to drive it will need a copy of Gran Turismo 7.