On December 23, Huawei held the 2021 winter flagship new product conference, this conference, Huawei brought the latest Huawei P50 Pocket mobile phone and tablets, wearable devices, etc., but the winter release of electronic products is not all the highlights, or even not the focus, the focus is on their AITO Q&A M5.
AITO's first tasting in Guangzhou
Regarding AITO, people may not know much, on December 2, 2021, Xilis released a high-end smart car brand at the Liangjiang Smart Factory in Chongqing, at that time, the conference clearly conveyed the association between the new brand and Huawei, such as the new car will be equipped with Huawei's latest Harmony OS smart cockpit.
With huawei's blessing, the topic of AITO has also been much higher, and this has also made many people's doubts about "Huawei does not build cars" have deepened a lot. But today we will not discuss whether Huawei will build a car, but first simply experience AITO's first product, the M5.
Q&I M5 released on December 23, December 26, AITO held its first tasting meeting in Guangzhou, because it was only three days from the release of the vehicle to the tasting meeting, so you can feel that the activity is a little hurried, the location of the venue is also relatively remote, but I have to mention that the reception staff is quite enthusiastic, greeting parking and taking water.
Simple experience of the Harmony OS Smart Cockpit
After arriving at the destination, there are already people on the scene of the test drive, Xiaobian and others will first experience the M5 car machine system on Huawei's tablet, according to the on-site staff, the circle M5 car machine system and Huawei's tablet are basically a set of things, but an additional set of vehicle control procedures are written.
From the experience point of view, the vehicle control program logic is still clear enough, and there will be no layer of menus, therefore, for the user to get started is not difficult, the interface design of the vehicle function is also more familiar, and many of the current new energy models are not much different; in addition to the vehicle control system is the car application, compared with the current mainstream car machine, the M5 car machine APP can be said to be quite rich, and thanks to the use of the Hongmeng system, you can download and install it yourself, as the staff said, It's a Huawei tablet.
In addition, from the perspective of the tablet, the overall fluency is also good, the sliding of the page is very close, but there is also a point worth mentioning, that is, when we experience the car machine again in the car, we found that the problem of taking pictures with the mobile phone will cause the screen to splash the screen, I don't know if it is related to the refresh rate of the car screen.
Many people for harmony OS smart cockpit should still have expectations, on the small editor of the rough experience, in addition to the point mentioned above is that the car machine also supports NFC connection with other mobile devices, that is, known as the "one touch pass" function, only need to have an NFC function of the mobile phone or other mobile device close to the screen can be connected to the car machine, the function does have a good practicality, equivalent to wireless screen projection but better than wireless screen projection, for users with special circumstances have good practicality, So this feature should be welcomed, of course, at the moment it should only support Huawei's mobile devices.
In addition, the smart cockpit of the M5 is still the gospel of Huawei's heavy fans, if Huawei's smart home equipment is complete, then the connection with the home in the car is quite easy, and this ecological connection should have a significant experience difference with the car home interconnection supported by the general model.
Autonomous driving assistance beyond imagination
In fact, I believe that many people, including Xiaobian, should have relatively high expectations for the autopilot assistance system of the Q&I M5, because Huawei has shown a rather amazing set of high-end autopilot ADS systems on the ARCFOX Polar Fox Alpha S before, and Huawei and ARCFOX Polar Fox are just cooperating.
But the truth is not as we think, the M5 is not equipped with Huawei's high-end automatic driving ADS system, but equipped with our commonly used L2+ level driver assistance system, the main functions include lane keeping, lane departure warning, adaptive cruise, automatic braking and APA automatic parking.
In the tasting activities, due to the limitations of the venue, the staff with the small editor experience is mainly emphasized is the APA automatic parking function, from the parking action is not delayed, the action is fast enough to be smooth, and the body is also very square after parking, for novice drivers or encounter a narrow parking scene in the parking lot, the function is still good practical, but as far as daily life is concerned, the small editor who "wanders" in various test drives every day believes that its practicality is a bit chicken ribs.
Regarding other functions of assisted driving, subject to the limitations of time and venue, Xiaobian did not have personal experience, but similar to ACC adaptive cruise and AEB emergency braking and other functions, the actual experience is still obviously different, such as ACC adaptive cruise in the car brake softness, speed of softness, AEB emergency braking sensitivity is adjusted moderately, etc. are need to be personally experienced to have feelings, therefore, for the feeling of these functions of the Q&A M5, there is no experience is not good to speak.
Regarding why the M5 is not equipped with Huawei's high-end automatic driving ADS system, the staff also gave the answer, which is the cost problem. They said that the price of models equipped with this system may go to more than 300,000 or 400,000 yuan. Xiaobian believes that in the less than 300,000 yuan of models required to be equipped with an automatic driving assistance system that can realize the recognition of traffic lights is indeed a bit harsh, but the high-end model of the Q&I M5 is also close to 300,000 yuan, so the function of similar lighting lane change can be added, in order to form a difference with the current conventional L2 level automatic driving assistance, but also let users have a point to look forward to.
Nice exterior with minimalist interior
Finally, there's about design. In appearance, as a range extender model, the front face of the M5 still retains a large area of grille, the design of the headlights is sharp, there is a certain momentum, the edges and corners of the front of the car are not much, the overall feeling is simple and straight, and the atmospheric performance of the front of the car is also good.
Body side, the overall feeling is thicker and fuller, but also adopted a retractable hidden door handle design; the rear part of the car is indispensable to the taillights, the design can also be said to be a feature of this era, the shape of the more stretched arc, there is a certain sense of beauty, "Cyris" tail sign indicates its provenance.
The tail compartment supports electric opening and closing, the trunk volume depth performance is good, the rear seats also support four or six ratios to put down, which can effectively expand the trunk space, but the official data shows that the trunk volume is only 369 liters in the non-expanded state, as a medium-sized SUV, the data level performance is general.
The interior layout adopts a simple and luxurious style, in addition to the "P" button and double flash buttons, there is no physical button, in order to create a sense of luxury, the interior dashboard and door panel, the main co-pilot seat behind the wood grain trim, not sure whether it belongs to the real wood, but the visual feeling is good; the interior material is also very solid, and the seat material touch is very delicate, according to the official information, for the combination of imitation leather and leather, the comfort of the rear seats is also commendable, whether it is embedded or support performance is good; With a wheelbase of 2880mm and a flat central platform at the rear, the rear space performance is more than enough for the 175 cm tall Xiaobian.
In general, the M5 has a more atmospheric appearance, simple interior, including the luxury and comfort emphasized by the on-site staff, especially in the texture, with sufficient materials.
Four feelings after a simple experience
In addition to the above product experience of the Q&I M5, Xiaobian also has a few feelings.
First, it can be clearly felt that the sales and staff present are more eager to get orders, and according to the information provided by the sales, on the night of the release of the Q&I M5, the Guangzhou area received more than 360 orders, and the total orders of the Q&C M5 on the day of the tasting (December 26) exceeded 6,000, if the sales were not exaggerated, it had to be said that the attention of the Q&I M5 was not low, and there were many people who were willing to believe in Huawei and were willing to try new things.
On the other hand, perhaps in order to let the Q&I M5 have higher attention and more orders, Cyrus SF5 has gradually stopped booking in various channels after the appearance of Q&I M5, and in order to appease the emotions of users who have booked SF5, Xelis has given two major compensations for upgrading the warranty policy and increasing/exchanging exclusive rights, which shows that for Q&R M5, both Huawei and Cyris seem to be doing their best.
Second, because the product is indeed relatively new, and the organizers of the activities are from the Huawei system in terms of small editors, the content of the in-depth combination of vehicles and Huawei technology, the people present can not give a good answer, but they are very generous to admit, indeed still learning, so from this point of view, Huawei's expectations for the M5 should be very high, so eager to come up with results to prove themselves.
Third, according to the elaboration of the staff present, the M5 will appear in the Huawei experience store after that, and the construction scale of the Huawei experience store will be 800 square meters or 1000 square meters in the future. Xiaobian originally thought that the M5 was only to borrow Huawei's new product launch to "debut", at most in the way of Huawei's smart selection to display or sell, did not expect that it will be displayed with Huawei electronic products, or even sold, but for Huawei fans, after this can save a lot of trouble, in the Huawei experience store can be the mobile phone and car together to pack away.
Fourth, Confucius knew that there was a succession of hearings and taoism, and there was a specialization in art. After all, the Q&I M5 is an automotive product, and the highest nearly 300,000 products and thousands of products should be different in terms of sales skills, such as the contact with Xiaobian for the Huawei experience store experience commissioner, directly inform Xiaobian, Q&I M5 is an upgraded version of Cyrus SF5. Although many people understand the association between AITO and Cyris, they also understand that from the positioning point of view, AITO is higher than Cyris, directly associating Cyris SF5 with Q&I M5, which is not a good thing for the AITO brand and Q&I M5, therefore, Huawei's current sales Q&I M5 system may not be the best, if there are Cyris people or professional PR companies involved in the initial marketing should have better performance.
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