This EV drifted through a gap with almost no room to spare
The Zeekr 7X squeezed through a corridor barely wider than its own body — sideways, at speed — and walked away with a Guinness World Record.
Nobody expected a Guinness World Record to go to the boldest run, not the fastest one. The electric Zeekr 7X crossover drifted through a corridor just centimeters wider than its own body — and claimed the world record for the narrowest corridor ever navigated by an electric car in a drift. The attempt took place on June 12 at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. With a body width of 1,920 mm, the car slid between the obstacles with only 25 cm of clearance on each side. That’s barely a hand’s width to spare.
Behind the wheel was the rear-wheel-drive version of the Zeekr 7X. The electric motor on the rear axle produces 421 hp and roughly 441 Nm of torque — enough to hold the car on the edge of a controlled slide without clipping a single obstacle. The model is built on the SEA platform and features a front double-wishbone suspension.
The record was timed to mark Zeekr’s fifth anniversary, the brand having been founded in 2021. And here’s the catch: the record hasn’t shown up on the Guinness World Records site yet. The organization notes that confirmed records can take time to appear in its public database. So the paperwork is still in transit — but the run already happened, with a quarter-meter of clearance on each side.