Nobody buys a Geely EX2 for the driving experience. China’s top selling car, badged E2 in some European markets, has made its name as a small, likeable and above all cheap electric hatchback, roughly the size of a Honda Jazz, and usually one of the least expensive new EVs on sale wherever it lands. Geely just showed that underneath that unremarkable reputation sits a chassis that, with a bit of encouragement, is happy to go sideways.
Brazil gets the wild version
The EX2 only just launched in Brazil, and Geely marked the occasion at last month’s Interlagos Festival, a demo-run and fast car event that doubles as a showcase for manufacturer previews, by rolling out two concepts built entirely around having fun with the platform: the EX2 Street and the far more committed EX2 Track.
Street keeps it sensible
The Street car is the tame one, relatively speaking. Lowered suspension, new 17 inch wheels, real leather instead of the standard synthetic stuff, and a darker Alcantara headliner swapped in for the usual light coloured trim. Nothing here looks out of reach for a production version, if Geely ever decided to build one.
Track goes all in
The Track car is a different animal entirely. Loud comic style graphics wrap the body, complete with a toothy grin decal up front and a cartoonish take on the EX2 badge, and it sits on the same lowered stance as the Street car but wears striking indigo wheels instead. Step inside and everything behind the front seats is gone, replaced by a roll bar, while the front seats get five point harnesses. There’s even a hydraulic handbrake, fitted with a lever long enough to make its purpose obvious at a glance.
Mechanically, nothing has changed: same 114 hp (84 kW) motor, same 40 kWh battery. Geely says the real work went into chassis stability and suspension tuning, sharpened specifically to make the car behave on track. And this isn’t just a static show piece dressed up for photos — social media clips already show the EX2 Track smoking its rear tyres through donuts, which suggests Geely’s engineers actually meant it.
Why this one can slide when others can’t
Most cheap small EVs, the BYD Seagull included, are front wheel drive, which rules out this kind of behaviour almost entirely. The EX2 breaks from that: rear wheel drive, independent suspension, and disc brakes on all four corners. That’s the same basic recipe used by plenty of much more expensive cars built to be playful at the limit, and a Brazilian YouTube channel called ACF had already clocked the car’s potential a month before Geely’s own concepts showed up to confirm it.
Geely isn’t pretending either concept is headed for production. But they make a point worth taking seriously: electric cars still carry a reputation for being flat and forgettable to drive, and the genuinely entertaining ones tend to come with a genuinely high price tag. The EX2 starts at a comparatively modest 20,900 euros in Italy, which makes the idea of a fun, affordable EV a lot more interesting than another six figure performance flagship.
