Every legacy brand that could have built this car stopped building them. Zeekr, which is barely five years old and has no wagon heritage to protect, built one anyway. The 7GT is a shooting brake with up to 671 hp, and its nearest stated rival is the Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo.
It has been on sale in China as the 007 GT since last year. Australia and Europe are next, and Carscoops has now driven the Australian-specification cars on track, on a gymkhana course and on ice. What follows draws on that first drive, reported by Brad Anderson.
The Small Battery Is Also The Slow One
Two packs are offered, and the charging figures look almost identical until you convert them into power.
The 75 kWh ShenDun Golden Battery goes from 10 to 80 percent in 10.5 minutes. The 103 kWh CATL Qilin does the same window in 10 minutes flat. Same headline, different physics: 70 percent of 75 kWh is 52.5 kWh in 10.5 minutes, an average of about 300 kW. Seventy percent of 103 kWh is 72.1 kWh in 10 minutes, an average of about 433 kW. The larger pack is not merely bigger, it refills at roughly 44 percent more power.
Buyers reading a spec sheet will see 10.5 against 10.0 and conclude the difference is half a minute. The difference is a different charging class.
Three Versions, And Australia Gets More Than Europe
The entry car is rear-wheel drive with the 75 kWh pack, 370 kW (496 hp), 0 to 100 km/h in 4.8 seconds and up to 702 km on the CLTC cycle. A long-range rear-drive version pairs the same motor with the 103 kWh pack.
At the top sits the dual-motor all-wheel-drive car: 103 kWh, 500 kW (671 hp), 700 Nm, 0 to 100 km/h in 3.5 seconds. That 500 kW is an Australian figure. The European-specification version of the same car is quoted at 475 kW (637 hp). An FR-Line performance kit is also coming, with orange calipers and up to 585 kW (784 hp).
The 7GT measures 4,817 mm long, 1,910 mm wide and 1,456 mm tall, and the European-specification car is listed at 2,285 kg.
Zeekr Put The Buttons Back
The 7GT is derived from the 007 sedan, which is not sold in Australia or Europe. Zeekr took one specific lesson from it: Chinese owners said the car leaned too heavily on the touchscreen. So the 7GT gained shortcut buttons and a volume roller directly under the 13.02-inch central display, plus the 7X's steering wheel instead of the 007's.
The rest is the usual escalation. A 15.4-inch curved driver display, a 35.5-inch augmented-reality head-up display, 14-way heated, ventilated and massaging front seats, an Alcantara headliner and acoustic glass.
The practicality numbers are where the anti-SUV argument actually lands. Cargo space is 645 litres with the rear seats up and 1,737 litres folded, there is a ski hatch, and a 6ft 2in passenger reportedly still found about an inch of rear headroom.
Driving It, With One Caveat
Carscoops reports the suspension is tuned for road rather than track, the balance is neutral with controllable understeer at the limit, and the car handled a 90 km/h lane-change test without understeer. Brakes coped with short stints, though some journalists noted fade.
The consistent complaint is the traction control, which cuts power on corner exit even when the car is pointed straight. Zeekr would not let the press disable it on tarmac. On snow, where it was switched off, the 7GT drifted happily and felt rear-biased. Letting reviewers turn the system off only on the surface where lap times do not exist is one way to manage a launch.
Australian pricing has not been confirmed. Zeekr expects the 7GT in showrooms by the end of this year or early 2027, at a figure Carscoops understands will sit meaningfully below AU$100,000 (71,800 dollars).
