In the past two years, the fire of Wuling Hongguang MINI EV has once again activated the domestic mini car market, and Japanese consumers who have always been keen on mini cars will inevitably be hungry when they look at the people-friendly pricing of Hongguang MINI EV. In order to give Japanese consumers "relief", Toyota Motor has very intimately launched a similarly positioned urban scooter C+pod, but the recent new car after the announcement of the price, but people are a little uneasy.
Flipping through the official website, you can see that the price of Toyota C+pod is 1650000-1716000 yen, about 91,000-95,000 yuan, which is basically equivalent to 3 times the domestic pricing of Wuling Hongguang MINI EV. It's so expensive, does that mean the Toyota C+pod is better? Not necessarily.
First of all, from the appearance point of view, the Toyota C+pod is more like an "old man" compared to the Hongguang MINI EV, with a narrow body and double-row seat settings, which does give people a strong "toy feeling". The front of the car adopts a slender headlight group, and the bottom is equipped with a polygonal middle net, which still has a certain degree of recognition in appearance.
The side shape is quite similar to the smart, both are standard single-car shapes, two-color body and some black trims, visually still slightly flexible. In terms of size, the new car has a length, width and height of 2490/1290/1550mm, and a wheelbase of 1780mm. This size is still a little smaller than the MacroMI EV. Of course, for Japan, where the roads are narrow, this size is very convenient for parking.
In the interior part, the new car adopts a rather cartoonish design, and a large number of round and curved elements are added to make the interior give people more pleasure. A small monochrome instrument cluster is placed in the middle of the center console, and a functional control area is arranged below, which is more convenient to operate.
The back row has a storage area, the area is not large, but fortunately, the overall space layout is regular, so the daily purchase of a dish, the purchase of a thing, basically can be satisfied.
In terms of power, the new car is equipped with a permanent magnet synchronous motor with a maximum power of 9.2 kW and a peak torque of 56 Nm. You can't expect this motor to give you a strong push back feeling, after all, the power is so big, and its top speed is 60 km / h, and the city is just right. In addition, the maximum endurance of the new car under the WLTC standard is 150 kilometers, between the low-end and high-end models of the Hongguang MINI EV, fortunately, it can be quickly charged, and it can be fully charged in 5 hours in the charging state of 200V/16A.
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As Toyota's "old man", although C+pod has similar product positioning and endurance performance with Wuling Hongguang MINI EV, the price is much more expensive than the Hongguang MINI EV, and it does not reflect the cost-effective advantage of micro-electric vehicles. Because the top version of the C+ pod, the price can already buy the Japanese version of the Yaris with models, and close to a Japanese version of the Corolla, such pricing, I am afraid it is difficult to stimulate the interest of Japanese consumers.