If you want to say which car in the recent car market is relatively hot, perhaps the Broad Type, which was listed on December 16 last year, will definitely be mentioned.
As the sister car of Dongfeng Honda Civic, the model set the price range at 129,900-166,900 yuan, which is basically the same as the price of the 2022 Civic. However, as soon as it was listed, it became an Internet celebrity, because in less than two weeks, the type has received more than 10,000 orders, and it is even more difficult to find in the terminal market.
If you convert it, it is equivalent to 120 seconds, that is, 2 minutes to book a car. Seeing this, maybe your question comes, just listed so sought-after? Is it acting or is it real? Just recently, the new media of automotive intelligence has had the opportunity to conduct an in-depth test drive of the type. For this series of questions, there is a clear answer.
Static experience, it's really not the same as the Civic
Because of the sister car, if you don't look closely, there is really not much difference between the shape and the appearance and interior of the Civic. However, in terms of some details, I personally think that the type has made a lot of differentiated things, especially in the keyword of texture.
For example, the visual feeling of the type will be wider, with the height reduction of the fender, the use of straight window lines, so that the visual center of gravity of the type is lower, in the words of many young people on social media, as far as the sports style is concerned, the type is more pure.
At the same time, the front face grille of the type compartment also adopts a more sporty honeycomb design, with a full LED light group equipped with adaptive high beam lights and steering auxiliary lights, which invisibly has some sense of luxury.
By the way, the top-of-the-line model we test-drove has 18-inch rims, while the 2022 Civic Mid-High only has 17-inch rims. In addition, the type of key also follows the trend, using a card key, with the function of mobile phone Bluetooth, these are all young people's thoughts.
After looking at the exterior, let's look at the interior. In the past, A-class Japanese cars gave people the feeling of hard plastic, and the texture was short. But this time, the style is really trying to improve its own texture. For example, the matte material on the surface of the interior trim panel, the metallic mesh trim, the delicate touch leather steering wheel, the red and black leather seats, and even the atmosphere lights that enrich the lighting details through the veneer pattern, it can be seen that Hiromoto is really doing this car with heart.
At the configuration level, now young people like the car machine interconnection function, wireless charging, can open the panoramic sunroof and other functions, the type is also all equipped, and even 10 airbags, 12 speakers bose audio, including ACC, lane keeping, blind zone warning and a lot of active safety equipment, this is definitely a cross-level configuration, saying that it is the ceiling of the A-class car configuration, it is not too much.
For the space that you are concerned about, you don't have to worry about it here. Because the space is originally the strength of the Japanese car, this time in the type is no exception, to the author's 175cm/80kg block, sitting in the front and rear rows are very spacious, the head, legs are not cramped, especially the design of the broader for the type of lattice slip back, in the rear overhead part of the deliberately increased space, riding in the rear row will not feel very depressed at all, plus the seat cushion is very wide. As a family car, its performance is really not picky.
Dynamic test drive, NVH gives people a lot of surprises
Due to the same type as the powertrain of the Civic, this familiar Anderker Honda 1.5T Earth Dream Engine + CVT gearbox, for the author, an old driver who has driven the Civic, found that familiar feeling as soon as he got started.
When driving on urban roads, people feel that they are light and soft, and the acceleration process is not noticed at all, whether it is low speed or medium and high speed, there is a good sense of acceleration, and there is no obvious turbo lag in the acceleration overtaking in the city. For family cars, this is definitely perfect for daily mobility.
On the highway, the author specially experienced the acceleration performance of the type. Due to the CVT gearbox, the power explosion is not as direct as the dual clutch and AT, but fortunately, the acceleration ability of the middle and rear sections of this engine is still quite strong, and the power output is very direct. In other words, the power of the type is also in line with its sporty appearance, which is definitely a car that can bring young people the desire to drive at the price of an A-class car.
Here to praise the type of brake pedal foot feedback, the specific performance is that the brake pedal has a compact stroke, almost no virtual position, lightly step on the brake pedal can feel a strong and linear braking force output, the amount of braking is easy to control, do not need to adapt to the time. Perhaps this is the strength of a joint venture such as Guangqi Honda, and the models that come out must be boutique.
By the way, the tranquility of the type NVH is also the highlight of this test drive. No blowing and no black, the sound insulation of the previous Honda models is relatively general, and even the B-class car Accord is not ideal. But in this style, we really found a lot of surprises.
First, the suspension is quite advanced, specially found some bumpy road to walk, did not feel much cheap vibration and noise, and through some of the city roads when the speed bumps are not too stiff feeling. Second, when driving at high speed, although there is still tire noise and wind noise when running to 120km/h, in terms of the overall level of the A-class car segment, the type has been done better, which can be seen by looking at the thick sound insulation material on the engine cover.
By the way, the steering feel of the type of the grid is also worth showing, first of all, the diameter of the steering wheel is very suitable, it will not affect the operation because of the size, in addition, its steering ratio is set appropriately, the number of turns is not much and there is no obvious openness, turn the steering wheel It can drive according to the place you envision, which also lays a good foundation for the sportiness of the type.
【Conclusion】Based on the above content, for the question of the title, 1 unit is ordered in 120 seconds, is the broad type so sought-after? After we personally tried it this time, we found that it was really like a netizen said, it is not recommended to buy directly, but it is recommended to try it yourself. Maybe after the test drive, you will come up with the same answer as the author.