If you pay attention to the car sales ranking for a long time, it is not difficult to see that the current hot models in the car field are still dominated by the range of 100,000-150,000. At present, the price field is firmly occupied by the joint venture brand of Corolla, Xuanyi, Langyi, Civic and other models, and it is precisely because of the blessing of brand power that the status of these models is difficult to shake. But all this, with the rise of independent brands, many brands began to find another way, from design, power, technology and other aspects of the attack, and gradually broke the invisible blockade of joint venture brands.
Technology illuminates the way forward, in recent years, many powerful independent brands have held their breath, and their new products are even more eye-catching, giving consumers a lot of surprises, Changan UNI-V is one of them. As the third model after UNI-T and UNI-K, it is also the first sedan in Changan UNI's high-end sequence. From the unveiling to the tasting of the car, it has saved the attention of young consumers, and everyone's expectations for this car are no less than a popular joint venture car. Not long ago, the manufacturer held a test drive activity with the theme of "Driving the Future Realm" in Chongqing, which replied to the expectations of consumers with actions.
The car is built based on the Ark architecture of Changan's latest platform technology, which not only inherits the family's genes of high value and strong technology, but also has a new exclusive coupe chassis, special blue whale power, high stiffness and lightweight "Ark Cage" body structure. It can be said that it integrates all the housekeeping skills of Chang'an, and also meets the expectations of young people for a sports car.
Of course, consumers praise Changan UNI-V the most is the super high appearance, the appearance continues the family-style design style, the overall shape of the headlight light group is sharp, the daytime running lights use sharp light strips, with the iconic borderless grille and the exaggerated aerodynamic design of the front surround, full of combat effectiveness. The "Futuristic Aesthetics" design of Chang'an UNI-V, driving the car through the bustling streets of Chongqing, is like a "new species" that rushes into the city, and its unique, full of technology and sports elements attracts street hipsters to stop and capture.
Changan UNI-V has many design elements that are rare in its class, such as the design of the five-door hatchback Coupe shape, the electric rear wing, the exhaust sound and the top bar, which are enough to see that Changan UNI-V carries the young sport to the end. The UNI-V design team boldly abandons the traditional design, designing it to be simple and advanced, and it is also very high-tech, showing the look and feel of domestic cars that have never been seen before.
"Fastback" slip back design, the top line angle is more than 150 °, of which the roof and rear glass angle, rear glass and rear glass angle is even close to 180 °, the overall shape is extremely smooth and dynamic. Coupled with hidden door handles and 18-inch multi-width sports wheels, it has achieved the exclusive advanced sports aesthetic of Changan UNI-V.
In addition to the elegant body lines, the electric rear wing is unprecedented in this price point model. Changan UNI-V has a height-to-width ratio of 0.78 and a wheel-to-height ratio of 0.47 to create a low-lying posture, and after integrating the electric rear wing that only appears in luxury brand models, the tail wing can automatically rise at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour, instantly pulling the sports atmosphere full of grids. The through-type taillights and bilateral exhaust add a lot of sports atmosphere to the tail, and the sport version of the model uses bilateral four-out exhaust, and the momentum is not lost to the performance car of 500,000 levels.
Nowadays, multi-screen and combined screen have become a new trend of smart cockpit, compared with the dual screen and other solutions used by most models, UNI-V has adopted a "3+1" quad screen design for the first time. The IMS intelligent cockpit interaction system equipped with the new car will register a non-inductive login FACE ID super account for each person, automatically call up your exclusive vehicle settings, and log in to the QQ Music, Himalaya and other ecological accounts bound by the FACE ID authorization in one step.
Not only that, but also can actively identify the scene-based needs of the occupants in the car, such as fatigue driving intervention, smoking and changing the wind, line of sight screen, answering the phone automatically reduce the multimedia volume and other active services, but also support the gesture interaction that only appears in high-end models, to achieve song switching, navigation home and other rich functions.
At the same time, UNI-V is also equipped with an intelligent voice interaction system jointly developed with iFLYTEK, which allows vehicle information to be interconnected and flow according to various scenarios, realizing 100% interaction of high-frequency scenes, so that "Xiaoan" has strong language understanding capabilities such as multi-round dialogue, context recognition, and cross-scene recognition.
Of course, the high-end intelligent driver assistance system is also a major selling point of UNI-V, which integrates LDW lane departure warning, LKA lane keeping assist system, LCDA parallel assist system and AEB automatic emergency brake assist system; it is also equipped with Continental's 3rd generation ESC body stability control system, which integrates ABS, EBD, TCS, ESC, HHC and other functions.
In terms of power, the new car is equipped with a power system composed of Blue Whale's new generation NE1.5T high-pressure direct injection engine and Blue Whale's 7-speed wet dual-clutch transmission, with a maximum power rating of 138kW and a peak torque of up to 300N .m at 1500rpm. Such power parameters are enough to stand out for the same class of models. It is reported that in the future, a new 2.0T version of the model will be added, and at that time, the performance of this car will be more worth looking forward to.
UNI-V has 5 driving modes, namely ECO, NORMAL, SPORT, SMART, AND SUPER RACE. It is worth mentioning the SMART mode, which is a relatively intelligent mode that dynamically adjusts according to the driver, which you can understand as an automatic and childish personality mode. The highly anticipated SUPER RACE mode opens the exhaust valve and raises the rear tail, and even the G value and turbo boost value are displayed passionately on the central control screen, which makes people multiply their driving desire and enter the most intense state. It should be reminded here that the exhaust sound wave of UNI-V is not a simulated sound wave, but a real guy.
UNI-V is based on the Changan Ark architecture, as a model that won the "China Top Ten Body Design Award", Changan UNI-V's vehicle center of gravity has been reduced by 30mm, and the center of gravity has been shifted inward by 5mm, which has greatly improved its handling, roll stability and ride comfort. The car uses a front McPherson + rear multi-link independent suspension, based on genetic algorithms to redesign the suspension hard points, so that UNI-V has excellent handling stability and driving texture. Of course, the Ark structure adopts topology optimization technology, which greatly strengthens the stiffness of the car body, coupled with the blessing of the top bar, which also achieves the excellent handling of UNI-V.
Driving fiercely on the city road, UNI-V performs with ease, under the blessing of exclusive coupe chassis, suspension hard point design, DTV dynamic torque vector control and other technologies, the vehicle accurately controls the driving trajectory, the body roll is very small when cornering, the top bar of the engine compartment and the two balance bars on the chassis, which makes the body rigidity have a good improvement. In addition, the Ark structure gives Changan UNI-V a new beam structure design, and the body is widely used thermoformed high-strength steel, high-strength steel and above account for up to 70%, the highest rigidity reaches 1500MPa, to achieve 20-45kg weight reduction, not only to ensure safety, but also to achieve body lightweight, effectively enhance the handling and improve energy-saving performance.
I have to say that with the blessing of the Ark architecture, UNI-V is indeed a surprising product. In terms of exterior interior design, power control performance, intelligence, safety and configuration, it is difficult to pick out deficiencies, and it is a model with high playability and practicality. Nowadays, the pre-price of the 1.5T smart pilot is 134,900 yuan, and I believe that the price of other versions will be more affordable, we will wait and see.