In November 2020, Geely Automobile's first CMA structure car, Xingrui, was officially launched, and I was very impressed by the first test drive in December of the same year, and boldly predicted in the video that Xingrui would definitely become a popular car in the same price. After a year of test driving has become an ice and snow challenge, can Geely Xingrui meet the ice and snow driving test of the home car in the northeast -20 °C environment? Actual measurement is better than all parameters.
The test was divided into three categories, namely 30km/h and 40km/h AEB active braking, ice surface high-speed loop and ice surface drag capability. Standing in different positions, the criteria for judging the vehicle are different, since the model is a 130,000-yuan compact car, the author will judge the actual performance of the car from the perspective of the daily use of the car.
As the only car company among its own brands to acquire luxury brands, from the date of its birth, Geely Xingrui is destined to be a model that meets the needs of domestic consumers, that is, to understand what you need. In addition to the 2.0T engine from Volvo and the CMA architecture and many technological configurations jointly developed with Volvo, what other points of Xingrui are more impressive to consumers?
The A-class car positioning B-class car space is not empty, first look at a set of data. The wheelbase of Xingrui has reached 2800mm, the front wheelbase is 1618mm, and the rear wheelbase is 1618mm, presumably most people have no intuitive concept of these data. Let's take the mainstream B-class family car Toyota Camry as an example, the wheelbase is 2825mm, the front wheelbase is 1595mm, and the rear wheelbase is 1605mm. Thanks to the long wheelbase and wide wheelbase, geely Xingrui gave me a very early experience in driving like a B-class car, just because the length factor is positioned in an A-class car.
It is worth mentioning that the long wheelbase and wide wheelbase do not mean that the riding space is necessarily spacious, but they are indispensable prerequisites for large space, and the actual riding space of Xingrui is far more spacious and comfortable than that of the japanese system at the same level. Consumers need to pay attention to the fact that some wheelbase, wheelbase, and model positioning are larger, but the actual riding space is relatively small, such as Land Rover Star Vein, Lexus LS, Mazda full range, etc.
Returning to the theme of ice and snow, Geely Xingrui impressed me in the two tests of the ice surface high-speed loop and the ice surface drag ability. On the ice-faced high-speed loop, it can be clearly felt that the ESP calibration is biased towards a conservative personality, and the ESP can intervene in time to avoid the driver's intense driving when there is a significant wheel speed difference between the four wheels of the vehicle. When the ESP body electronic stability system is not turned off, the author tries to make the vehicle achieve a more exaggerated posture through the Scandinavian pendulum in the rally car, and then uses the power to straighten the body through the driving characteristics of the front-drive car.
When the steering angle is too large, there is a significant push head state, even if the throttle is stepped on, there will be no situation where the front wheel is straightened by dragging the rear wheel with power, in this operating state, ESP will significantly limit the power output to ensure driving safety and straighten the body speed of only 42km/h, which can allow the driver to complete the rescue action even on the road.
In addition, although the long wheelbase can improve the riding space, it is structurally hard from the perspective of sportiness, which is also a key element for the vehicle to meet different use needs. The same is the ice and snow performance, to know that in the era when there was no Audi quattro, Subaru DCCD and Mitsubishi S-AWC four-wheel drive system dominated, peugeot 205 Turbo16, Fiat 131, Lancia Delta HF and other WRC champion models in order to overcome the ice and snow after-wheel drive tail is to shorten the wheelbase, so that Lancia Delta HF participated in the WRC Gr.A group event when some people called it "the fastest urn".
In the end, in the ice surface high-speed ring road project, the fastest speed of SSZ watch is about 60km/h, ESP calibration is more concerned about safe driving is not a radical sports style, which is also very consistent with the model positioning, to know that there are many consumers who have not even driven 4000 turns to several times, safe driving is more in line with the positioning of the car.
This time there is also Volkswagen Sagittarius, as a representative of the Ashkenazi family car has a very objective sales volume, space, power crushing the same level of Japanese system, its own dry double clutch of high transmission efficiency also provides a lot of help for fuel economy, plus leather seats and a solid driving texture can meet the needs of family travel. In the ice surface high-speed ring road project, the driving speed is faster than that of Geely Xingrui, the speed of the table is about 65km/h, the ESP calibration is more moving, and there is a speed difference between the drive wheel and the driven wheel, which is more suitable for getting out of trouble.
In the ice high-speed ring project, volkswagen sagittarius speed is significantly faster than Geely Xingrui, this test is not the faster the better, if from the perspective of sports, young, the faster side is better. If you analyze from the perspective of just needing a family car, the calibration of Geely Xingrui, which is more stable and conservative, feels more solid.
The third link of the ice surface drag project confirms the author's expectations, because the Sagitar ESP body electronic stability system calibration is relatively moving, so in the initial stage of the tires continue to slip and lose power, while Geely Xingrui to avoid skidding calibration can make the vehicle start quickly to complete the final test.
Finally, the two popular compact family cars due to tuning and focus on the direction of different achievements are also deviated, as far as I personally stand at home to use the geely Xingrui conservative tuning style is more satisfactory, after all, the driver in the face of slippery road slippage when the subconscious rescue action will often cause the pusher to extend the braking distance due to the direction, pendulum and other reasons.