We all know that Toyota and Volkswagen are joint venture factories in the Chinese market, one south and one north perform their duties, but the overlap of product positioning or special dual models will produce some small-scale "brotherly" contradictions. At the same time, there are also some manufacturers in the country also adopt a dual-brand domestic strategy, such as the Ford we want to see here is divided into Changan Ford and Jiangling Ford.
But unlike Toyota, Volkswagen, etc., Ford is not a manufacturer of a car shell change, there is a hardcore SUV in the Jiangling Ford lineup that maintains a special position in the market, it is the Ford roadbreaker, and what we want to see today is its top model, that is, the 2020 sports version of the 2.3T gasoline automatic four-wheel drive flagship version 7-seater model.
Exterior design
In terms of front design, unlike other Fords we see, although the front face of the Roadbreaker is embedded in a new generation of polygonal grilles, its entire front end has a high ground, and the encirclement in the front bumper is fully three-dimensional, and its front bump can also play a collision protection function. At the same time, embedded here
Headlight design, its style modeling is more traditional, there is not much sense of design, and in the choice of near and far light sources is also the use of halogen + LED combination, the former in rain and fog weather under the higher permeability, more suitable for poor visibility of lighting; and fog lights and day lights are embedded in the bumper, multi-road lighting effect will be better.
Coming to the side, due to the size of the road shakers reaching 4892/1862/1837mm, the wheelbase is 2850mm, the height of more than 1.8 meters makes it look particularly burly, and the presence of fixed foot pedals and 20-inch sports wheels will deepen this impression. At the same time, the minimum ground clearance of 227mm also allows the vehicle to have higher passability in multi-road driving. In other words, the overall impression of a road breaker is a hardcore SUV.
In the rear design, the rear windshield and tailgate are designed to be relatively wide, and in order to optimize collision avoidance, its rear bumper is structurally independent, and will have a pedal in and out of the trunk. But surprisingly, it entered the market as a sport, and only offered a single exhaust pipe.
In the design of the tail light, although its size is relatively large, but some of the modeling defects are wooden, the width light and the brake light are surrounded by a C-type structure, the turn signal and the rear fog light will be wrapped in, and on the whole, this design is not so avant-garde but looks more upright.
Interior design
In the central control design, all the functional partitions are more traditional, the embedded dashboard, the central control screen surrounded by the air conditioner outlet, and the physical console that appears between the central control screen and the gear shift mechanism, while covering the multimedia and air conditioning system adjustment, these layout methods are relatively easy to get started. The control buttons and knobs around the gears are mainly adjusted for auxiliary functions, the buttons are for the imaging system, stability control system and drive differential adjustment, while the knobs on the left provide driving mode selection.
In terms of decorative materials, as a hard-core SUV shaker uses a lot of slugging technology in the decoration, especially the infrequently touched lower baffle, lower door panel area, but in the upper baffle, handrail area and steering wheel and other positions, we still found a soft bag with stitches and even leather materials, these functional areas to be grasped frequently can make the shaker lose his identity positioning. In addition, the large painted panel that appears on the passenger baffle, combined with the METAL EVEREST nameplate, can still improve its cockpit grade.
On the vehicle system, the road shaker's dashboard uses a combination of dual LCD screen + mechanical dial, and the information displayed at both ends is still relatively rich; and the central 8.0-inch LCD touch screen is relatively small, and the embedded style is not so flattering, but functions such as CarLife mobile phone interconnection, voice recognition control, remote car connection and so on are still covered one by one, and the function is not lacking.
In the on-board configuration, the road shaker provides a set of auxiliary driving system in terms of function, including active braking and blind spot monitoring, falling into the actual driving and using the car, which supports reversing images and basic adaptive endurance, and automatic parking assistance; and visual accessories, the vehicle also has panoramic images, inductive tailgates, rear electric seats, 220V power supply and rear independent air conditioning system.
In the cabin space, the road shaker can provide 1 punch in the first two rows of head space for the 180cm experiencer, the second row of seats can be adjusted between 3 fingers and 2 fists, and when the second row of leg allowance is maintained 1 punch, the experiencer's head and leg space in the back row is relatively limited, the head is just enough, and the leg has a 3-finger distance, but the pillows and independent air conditioners provided here can achieve a certain somatosensory optimization.
Mechanical mechanism
In the powertrain, the road-shaker is equipped with a Ford's classic 2.3T turbocharged four-cylinder engine, which has a maximum power of 202kW and a peak torque of 455N·m, and the transmission matches the 10AT gearbox jointly developed with GM, and the dense gear ratio is conducive to climbing and driving in complex road conditions, and its full-time four-wheel drive system will have a low-speed transfer box and an open differential, which will make it have a certain independent escape performance.
On the chassis suspension, the road shakers built on the non-bearing platform adopted a double wishbone independent suspension on the front axle, while the rear axle was a monolithic plate bridge suspension with a multi-link structure, and provided a watt linkage and stabilizer bar design, and the addition of multiple stable structures allowed it to achieve hard-school off-road driving with the help of the four-wheel drive system and the rear axle tooth embedded differential lock.
Write at the end
What can be seen is that the Ford Roadbreaker is not a traditional urban SUV, but a hardcore model with off-road capabilities, and the performance combination of 2.3T+10AT+AWD can make it have the performance fun of outdoor driving, perhaps the on-board intelligent configuration is less, but the road-shaker is not born to play this set.