Every Batman fan has a Batmobile in their head. Mine has flat panels, hard creases and lights that are barely more than slits.
So does the Zeekr X. The door handles are hidden, the panels fold into sharp edges, and the headlights are two thin slots. In grey, parked next to the usual rounded crossovers, it looks like it took a wrong turn out of Gotham.
I love the way this car looks. I kept walking around it in the carpark.
Who is Zeekr?
Say it "zee-ker". Zeekr is the premium electric brand of Geely, the Hangzhou carmaker that also owns Volvo, Polestar and Lotus. Geely started it in 2021 to sell upmarket EVs under a name with no petrol history. The longer story, from a concept car that changed its badge to the showroom on Leng Kee Road, is in our Who is Zeekr.
The X sits on the same platform as the Volvo EX30, which we reviewed earlier this year, so the two are the same size underneath and share most of their hardware. They look nothing alike inside.
In Singapore, Zeekr is sold by Premium Automobiles, the Audi dealer, from the Zeekr Centre on Leng Kee Road. The brand arrived here in 2024 with the X. The Urban is the newer Cat A version, with the motor dialled back to 110 kW so it qualifies for the cheaper COE.
Inside
My test car had the two-tone cabin, dark blue against cream, and it is gorgeous. The dashboard and the door tops are navy, the seats and the wheel are cream, and a thin rose-gold strip runs along the edges. Very chic. I have not sat in a cabin at this price that looks this well put together.
It feels the part too. The door cards are wrapped in a soft leather-like material, and the bit your elbow rests on is padded. There are hard plastics lower down if you go looking for them. I did not mind.
The steering wheel is one of the nicest I have held, and the buttons on it are real physical buttons. Behind it there is a row of shortcut keys, one of them for the 360 camera. You find them without looking and I never pressed one by accident. I would take this over a dash with a million buttons, and over a dash with none.
The front seats are comfortable, ventilated, and there is decent room up front. In the back, legroom is tight, headroom is not great for a taller adult, and the boot is small at 362 litres. Cabin storage is average, the centre armrest is harder than it looks, and the phone slot is in an odd spot.
The Urban also drops a few things the pricier Zeekr X gets: the ambient lighting, the Yamaha speakers and the little fridge under the armrest. The lighting is the one I missed. In its place you get a speaker on the outside of the car that plays sounds to passers-by, which I did not try.
Screens and buttons
The driver display is the best bit. It is a small screen that sits neatly between the spokes of the wheel, so nothing blocks it. After the Toyota bZ4X, where the wheel rim cut across the display, this is how it should be done. The EX30 does not give you a driver display at all.
The driver display sits between the spokes of the wheel, where you can actually see it.
Most other things run through the big centre screen. It is sharp, bright and quick. My phone connected fast every time and the system never stuttered. I have zero complaints about the screen itself.
The software feels like a smartphone, with some fun apps to poke around in. It is a step behind an XPENG or a Tesla for that feeling, and still ahead of most.
Two things annoyed me. The side mirrors are adjusted through the screen. So are the air vents, so pointing the cold air somewhere else means a few taps instead of a flick.
The seven speakers you do get are better than I expected. There is a surprising amount of bass for a car this size, and my usual bass-heavy playlist sounded good in here.
How it drives
The X Urban is small, comfortable and easy to place on the road. It is not the most comfortable, the fastest or the most agile car in its class. It is somewhere in the middle on all three.
This is not a driver's car. The Cat A motor makes 110 kW, and 0 to 100 km/h takes 8.7 seconds. It gets up to speed smoothly and quietly, and that is about all it wants to do.
There is some playfulness in the corners. Turn in and the car feels lighter on its feet than you expect. Then you ask for power on the way out, and there is not enough of it to have real fun. The Cat B versions have a lot more. I have not driven them, so that stays on paper.
Adaptive cruise control works well and so does lane keeping. Neither of them nags. The car will also park itself, and it did so cleanly when I tried it.
The driver distraction and fatigue monitors are another matter. They went off when I glanced up or down for a moment, which makes them pointless. After a day I stopped hearing them, which is the opposite of what they are for.
Living with it in Singapore
With the battery at 49 per cent the display showed 214 km, and the car's own estimate for a full charge was 440 km. Zeekr claims 441 km WLTP.
DC charging peaks at 150 kW. AC is 7.2 kW, which is on the slow side for an overnight top-up at a condo charger. I did not charge the car on the loan, so those are Zeekr's numbers.
Buying one
On the Zeekr Singapore price list effective 8 October 2026, the X Urban is S$229,999 with COE, four bids guaranteed, and S$219,999 if you take Zeekr's trade-in, finance and insurance package. That is the cheapest way into a Zeekr, S$10,000 under the Cat B X RWD on the same list.
The Volvo EX30 Ultra, the same car underneath and also Cat A, was S$245,000 with COE on Volvo's August list. For S$15,000 less the Zeekr gives you a nicer cabin and a driver display the Volvo does not have.
The harder comparison is the XPENG G6 Air, another Cat A car with the same 110 kW, which XPENG listed at S$224,999 effective in September. It is a much bigger car with a proper back seat and a 571-litre boot. Need the space? Get the XPENG. Line them up in our compare tool.
The verdict
The Zeekr X Urban is a very nice, fairly average car that looks and feels special.
The cabin is the best thing about it. The wheel, the driver display and the quick centre screen are the best things in the cabin. The Cat A motor keeps it sensible, the back seat and boot are small, and the fatigue monitor beeps at you for looking up.
If you want a small SUV that stands out, with an interior you will enjoy every day, this is an easy recommendation. If you carry adults in the back often, or you want some shove under your right foot, look at the G6 Air or the Cat B Zeekr X instead.