In the automotive market, the seniority of the car brand is often one of the important reference factors for consumers when buying a car. Because, the car brand with deep qualifications usually has a relatively rich accumulation at the technical level, which can create models with better quality and stronger safety performance, so as to ensure the user's car experience. However, this does not mean that the "latecomers" in the car market must be inferior to the old models created by the old car companies in terms of quality and safety, and Landu FREE is a good example.
LanTu FREE
For Lantu Automobile, many consumers who are not so concerned about the automobile market may feel a little strange to it. This is actually not surprising, because Landu Automobile is a rookie in the automotive market, and it only officially released the brand in July 2020, which is enough to describe it as "young" in the automotive market. As the first model of the Lantu brand, Landu FREE is naturally not a veteran in the car market, and it is appropriate to use "latecomer" to describe it.
Logically, a rookie model created by a new brand is not bad in terms of quality and safety, but it usually does not overstep the level. However, in the test results released by C-NCAP, Landu FREE easily achieved a 5-star safety rating, and also achieved a comprehensive score rate of 92.3%, ranking first among Chinese brand new energy vehicles. The Xiaopeng P7, which is also an independent brand new energy vehicle, has a comprehensive score rate of 89.4% in the C-NCAP test, which is much lower than that of Lantu FREE. Not only that, the highly qualified Audi Q5L has a combined score rate of 93.4% in the C-NCAP test, which is not much higher than the Lando FREE. This makes us a little curious, why is the security of Lantu FREE so good? In order to solve this problem, we put the Lantu FREE with the Xiaopeng P7 and Audi Q5L, which are close to the price point, and compare them to see how they differ.
Xiaopeng P7
Audi Q5L
First, look directly at the C-NCAP test results of Lantu FREE, Xiaopeng P7, and Audi Q5L. I have just said the combined score rate of the three, and here is a detailed analysis of the individual scores of their respective tests. The occupant protection sub-score rate of Lantu FREE was 94.39%, the pedestrian protection sub-score rate was 75.09%, and the active safety sub-score rate was 100%. Xiaopeng P7 scored 92.61% in the occupant protection sub-item, 65.11% in pedestrian protection sub-item, and 98.51% in active safety. The Audi Q5L scored 95.52% in the occupant protection sub-item, 76.68% in the pedestrian protection sub-item, and 100% in the active safety sub-item.
The reason why you can get a fairly good C-NCAP test score is actually related to the excellent body structure of Lantu FREE, Xiaopeng P7, and Audi Q5L itself. Xiaopeng P7 body material is steel and aluminum mixed body, in the body hood, shock tower and other positions to use aluminum alloy materials, the vehicle's high-strength steel and aluminum alloy material mixed accounted for 60%, and Xiaopeng P7 key parts are made of thermoformed steel, the proportion of the vehicle thermoformed steel reached 13%.
Landu FREE's body structure is also outstanding, with 75% of its body using high-strength steel, and among them, the proportion of thermoformed steel with a strength of more than 1500MPa reaches 31%. These materials are mainly used in key structures such as body A-pillars, B-pillars, sills, mid-aisles, and seat beams. It is worth mentioning that the Thermoformed steel body of the Audi e-tron accounts for 27%, and the BMW X7 is 16%.
As for the Audi Q5L, as a best-selling senior traditional luxury model, its body structure is also not bad, but compared with the overall structure of the body, the detailed design is more exciting. It can be seen that the front anti-collision beam is made of aluminum alloy, and the rear anti-collision steel beam is made of cold stamped high-strength steel, and the structure adopts a double-layer design, and the rear energy-absorbing box has a collapse fold and two reinforcing ribs to improve safety.
In addition to the difference in the structure of the driving body, these three models actually have certain differences in the configuration of intelligent driving assistance. The driving assistance functions provided by Xiaopeng P7 are actually more comprehensive, and there are functions that should be there, but the entry-level models cannot achieve L2-level automatic driving, and the low-end models lack functions such as parallel assist, lane keeping, and road traffic sign recognition. It is worth mentioning that the high-end Xiaopeng P7 has fatigue driving tips.
In Lantu FREE, all kinds of driving assistance functions are basically standard, and the basic model can achieve L2 level automatic driving assistance. Things like lane departure, lane keeping, parallel assist, road traffic recognition, fatigue driving tips, etc. are standard. Even Lantu FREE has a night vision system that is rare in this price point, which can improve the safety of driving at night.
Audi Q5L safety configuration is lacking, in the price of less than 410,000 yuan on the model, basically see no lane deviation, lane keeping, road traffic signs, fatigue driving tips and other intelligent systems, however, active braking is the standard of the whole series.
In general, in fact, Audi Q5L and Xiaopeng P7 are very safe models, whether it is body structure materials, or safety configuration in the car, these two models have achieved as much as possible to meet the needs of users and ensure the safety of users' travel. Compared with Audi Q5L and Xiaopeng P7, Lantu FREE is actually not much different, but it has more generous materials and configurations, so it is more sincere than Audi Q5L and Xiaopeng P7, and it has achieved the latecomers to catch up.