Ousado

What reviewers liked

• Inside the cabin feels truly premium for the price, and the design is also not bad; it is actually quite well done. The dashboard is styled around a waterfall design that blends into the front cabin, a look Hongqi says was built to give the interior a sense of pride rather than plainness. A 12.6-inch LCD central control screen anchors the dashboard, with a 12.3-inch instrument display included on the Flagship variant.
• The wireless CarPlay and Android Auto connect automatically through the central screen. The Ousado Key adds remote engine start, combining digital convenience with easy day-to-day accessibility.
• Ambient lighting curates a range of colours throughout the cabin. A semi-automatic parking assistant handles parallel, perpendicular, and oblique parking positions on both variants. A 12-speaker Dynaudio surround sound system rounds out the flagship's cabin, using algorithms. Hongqi says we're tuned to extract spatial information and create a more immersive listening experience than a conventional stereo setup.
• As you can see in the variants, the jump from Luxury to Flagship brings a distinctly different front-seat experience, worth a side-by-side test drive before choosing. The 12-way seat's massage function has multiple intensity settings, useful on longer drives across the Emirates when a driver's lower back starts to feel the miles. The memory presets also let two drivers store their own position without resetting the mirrors and seat each time they swap.
• The space in the back suits the Ousado's role as a car meant to be driven as much as ridden in, rather than a dedicated chauffeur car. Two decent-sized adults fit comfortably across a Fujairah or Al Ain run. The fold-down centre armrest and rear cupholders make three-hour drives more bearable. A fully grown adult in the middle seat will still find the transmission tunnel and cushion shape less accommodating than the two outer positions, though.
• The automatic dual-zone air conditioning is standard on both variants, backed by a PM2.5 air cleaning system and an air quality display. Both are quite common across the brand's other cars. Passengers can see the cabin's filtration status in real time. That filtration matters more in the UAE than it might elsewhere, with dust and sand a regular part of daily driving. The system also pulls down the cabin temperature quickly enough after a car has sat parked under the midday sun. Passengers should not need to wait long before the seats and steering wheel feel comfortable to touch.