It takes serious confidence to build an electric SUV, call it a “Fashion UV,” and then drive it upside down through a tunnel. But to prove that the Passion S [CH] handles like a low-slung sports car rather than a top-heavy family hauler, Chinese automaker VOYAH decided to recreate one of the most famous car commercials in history. Drawing direct inspiration from Mercedes-Benz’s legendary 2010 SLS AMG tunnel-loop stunt, VOYAH set out to do what the Germans only simulated: stick an unmodified, two-plus-ton EV to a ceiling for real.
That’s right. VOYAH made its electric SUV execute the seemingly impossible, pulling off a 360-degree tunnel loop completely under control. This stands in stark contrast to Mercedes-Benz’s stunt, which was created using CGI. VOYAH is like a kid who watches a sci-fi movie, wonders why the tech can’t be real, and then actually goes out and builds it. Well, real it is—perhaps a little too real.
The stunt vehicle was a standard, unmodified production EV carrying its full battery pack. Naturally, pulling this off required far more than just raw power. It demanded meticulous calculation: a precise entry speed of 130 km/h (81 mph) and a constant 16-degree steering angle, leveraging centrifugal force to keep the tires pinned to the wall and ceiling. To make the continuous loop physically possible, engineers installed custom concave entry and exit ramps at the Wuhan test facility to transition smoothly from the floor to the arch.
Knowing skeptics would immediately claim fake, VOYAH released an uncut, continuous camera shot of the run. But the internet already knew it wasn’t a first-try breeze—early footage leaked on Douyin by facility workers showed a camouflaged prototype losing speed and falling off the ceiling during development.
Anyhoo, you can watch the final, successful attempt—neatly packaged in VOYAH’s official marketing video—below.
Images: YouTube (VOYAH Global).
