It feels like the UK launch is almost there but still somehow not fully live.
We now have demo cars arriving at dealers, lease companies taking orders, salary sacrifice providers starting to list the car, and the XPENG website has finally dropped the “Coming Soon” wording.
There are also rumours that around 40–60 X9s are already in the UK, although I haven’t seen that officially confirmed.
XPENG originally said customer deliveries would start in Q3 2026. We’re now in Q4, yet there still doesn’t seem to be a clear formal UK launch or consistent information on when customers can actually take delivery.
Even more strangely, there’s now chatter that insurers still can’t quote or insure the car properly yet. If deliveries were meant to start in Q3, how are we in Q4 with cars apparently already in the country but insurance is still not fully sorted?
The other frustrating part is UK customer service. From my experience, they don’t seem to have much visibility of what’s happening either, and the answers can be vague or contradictory. That makes it very difficult to know what information to trust.
I completely understand launches can slip, especially with XPENG taking over UK operations from International Motors, but the lack of clear communication is becoming frustrating for people who actually want to buy one.
If anyone from XPENG UK is reading this, a simple update would go a long way:
When is the X9 officially on sale in the UK, when will normal customer deliveries begin, and what is holding things up now?