VinFast VF8 review by INSIDE EVs

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Maybe the VF9 will be better? :)
 

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That got to be the worst review of any car that I have read. Yikes.
 


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Ouch.

Some great one liners though!

“If you described a car to ChatGPT and had it build something without any background knowledge or contextual awareness, the VF8 is what I imagine you’d get.”
 

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Did someone at VinFast drive the car before releasing it? I can't imagine they would OK the release of this vehicle if the flaws were so obvious and severe.
 

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Didn't they just secure BILLIONS of dollars of new funding? Surely these investors would have tested the car extensively before investing?
 

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I rode in one at last year's auto show in New York. My ride wasn't long enough to induce motion sickness. I didn't like the cabin setup, just one screen in the middle. Also didn't like the fact that there were no service centers outside of California. Maybe that has changed since 2022. I did like their battery leasing program that enables you to have a fresh battery in the car, but there wasn't quite enough for me to say, "I gotta get a Vinfast".
 

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That is the most punishing review for any vehicle that I’ve ever read. Wow.
 

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Holy crap!

The car isn’t just the worst car on the road, it’s extremely DANGEROUS to drive!

Sounds like none of the safety equipment works!

A few examples:

“ The adaptive cruise control and lane-centering steering assist work shockingly well but also have no apparent safeguards. They can be activated on any road at any time, and there appears to be no functional driver monitoring. The car never once warned me to put my hands back on the wheel, and covering the driver-facing camera behind the steering wheel did nothing. This is exactly the kind of thing that's made Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self Driving Beta technologies so controversial and potentially dangerous.”


“Blind-spot monitoring was also functionally useless on our vehicle. Occasionally, it would work while stopped if another vehicle next to us was moving through our blind spot, illuminating both a light on the door mirror and a graphic on the Tesla-like single dashboard screen. Most of the time, though, it didn't do anything.”

“Put the VF8 in reverse to back out of a spot, and the whole car shudders violently. The parking brake doesn't release until you step on the accelerator, and once you do, there's no hold function, so you'd better keep Creep mode engaged so it's always sending power to the motors. Disable Creep, and the car will roll away in gear. I nearly rolled backward into another car at an intersection like someone learning to drive stick.”


The steering assistance in our test car threw so many screaming false alarms and messages about having to provide "emergency steering assistance" when A) there was no emergency, and B) it wasn't actually doing any steering that I finally just turned off the whole system.“

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