Xiaomi's $31,000 SkyNomad builds its luxury pitch into the floor plan

One press of a button in the back of an N90 and the second row is a flat bed in 30 seconds, with no mattress to fetch and nothing to unbolt ^[4]. Xiaomi describes the seating as "more like an Italian sofa" ^[9]. The sofa line is marketing copy. The bed is a packaging decision, and it only works because the floor is flat.

That floor comes from Xiaomi's Kunlun platform, with sliding rails built in from the front seats through to the boot, so every seat section can be moved ^[5]. The front pair spins a full 180 degrees to face the second row, floor-mounted tables slot in between the rows, the centre console travels fore and aft on a button, and rear legroom maxes out at over five feet ^[6]. For contrast, WIRED lists the current cutting edge in Western flagship interiors as power doors, multi-point massage seats, relaxation programmes with scent sprays, and a central console that moves maybe 10 cm ^[10].

Two different kinds of engineering sit inside that comparison. Massage seats and scent sprays are procurement: a supplier ships them, and they fit a car whose floorpan was frozen years earlier. Rails running the length of the cabin and seats that turn to face backwards are floor plan work, settled at platform sign-off. Xiaomi got to make that call recently. It built its first EV in 2024 and plans to sell in Europe from 2027 ^[11].

Set the headline price against the only figure the article states in full, the Jaecoo 7's £29,210, which WIRED calls a little over $39,000 ^[13]. That puts the SkyNomad roughly $8,000 cheaper, close to a fifth ^[20]. Xiaomi is copying the look as well as the price: the five-seat N70, in its Stealth Black Edition guise, looks almost exactly like a Range Rover from the outside, WIRED says ^[3]. The Jaecoo is the nearest thing to demand evidence in the piece, and it is a petrol and hybrid car whose marketing uses the word luxury liberally ^[13]. It sells well enough that WIRED's writer says his local Nissan dealer dumped the Japanese brand and became an official Jaecoo dealer for the 5, 7 and 8 ^[15].

The useful split for anyone writing a 2027 feature list is between what needs the floor plan and what needs a purchase order. The first pile closes at sign-off and reopens only with a new platform; the second can wait for the facelift. On Xiaomi's list, the rails and the rotating front seats sit in the first pile ^[5][6]. The walkie-talkie option, which runs on cellular coverage instead of short-range radio and looks very similar to tech Xiaomi already ships in its phones, sits in the second ^[8].