If you have heard of Qoros, it must also be the network paragraph of "the first car for young people - linkage cloud car rental".
I was fortunate enough to rent a linkage cloud at the end of last year. The battle situation of the battle loss level (360 degrees without dead angles all scratched) is the basic operation, and the hygiene of the car that no one cleans is also expected, but the battery feed can not start this kind of fairy hidden danger is really overwhelmed, and the trembling immediately sent back to the rental car point.
After the end of the order, because I did not agree to change the car, the three-day car rental fee of more than 600 yuan was also adrift, and the customer service refused to refund it hard.
Looking at the domestic car power of Qoros 3 and Qoros 5, each with serious injuries lying in the dilapidated shared car parking lot, his heart is full of mixed feelings.
Since Baoneng took over Qoros In 2017, Qoros has ushered in another ups and downs in life. Sales suddenly surged to 63,000 units in 2018, then to 21,900 units in 2019, to 14,600 units in 2020, while last year it basically disappeared with only a few thousand units of annual sales. In 2018, it suddenly came back to life because Baoneng sold the car to its own car rental company Linkage Cloud with its left hand and right hand, and whether the money was earned is not known, and the Qoros brand that was once a bit bone-chilling and word-of-mouth has been completely played into waste wood.
It once vowed to give Qoros a good life, but from the reality of the situation, it has not fulfilled its promise for the time being.
However, a few days ago, Baoneng Automobile suddenly held a low-key new car conference, and unveiled two new cars in one go, one of which is Qoros' new car QOROS 6 (QOROS is Qoros's English name).
Different from the high-profile release of Qoros 7, this Baoneng conference is very low-key, and the new car information on the network is even more pitiful.
Although Qoros is now at the end of the road, but the first time I saw this Qoros 6, I still gave a positive score, at least its exterior design is much more than those exaggerated PPT car manufacturers. The design of this car and the other car styles of Qoros in the past are slightly different, the polygonal grille inside is a spread stripe shape, after blackening and the two sides of the headlights are connected, the shape of the headlights is irregular, rising in the direction of the lid, the lower part is the "tear eye" design, and the line on the side of the body is a very popular sneak coupe style at the moment.
(Qoros 7)
The car has not officially released much information, it is said that the wheelbase is more than 2.8 meters, positioning the A+ class compact sedan. The style of the whole car is somewhat similar to the recently exploded Changan UNI-V and Trumpchi Shadow Leopard, while the size is close to that of Geely's Xingrui. If the power of this car is scheduled, it will use the 1.6T and 1.8T engines on the Qoros 7.
As mentioned earlier, Baoneng Automobile's conference this time is to release two new cars. The focus of Baoneng Automobile is more on the back of this car, that is, THE BAO GX5.
The name "BAO" is the English name of Baoneng Automobile, in June last year, Baoneng Automobile Group officially released this new luxury new energy vehicle brand, baoneng positioning it is Weilai can benchmark Weilai, Tesla's high-end electric brand.
The tone is really not small, that as the first car under the "BAO" car brand that sounds very high-end, the data officially given by THE BAO GX5 is also quite "unexpected". The car will be available in two endurance configurations, with a range of 700 km and 800 km, and an acceleration time of 0-100 km/h of less than 8 seconds and 4.5 seconds respectively.
The most critical thing is that looking at the earlier introduction of Baoneng Automobile's official website, the core components of Baoneng's new car in the future are independently developed by Baoneng's subsidiaries, including power batteries, motors and electronic controls (according to the official website, most of the technical teams are dug up from the Nissan Renault Alliance), and even Baoneng cars such as automatic driving and intelligent cockpits are also in the layout of independent research and development.
Although I look down on xiaopeng and Weilai, these new force foundry companies, I talked about it in the earlier press release on the official website. But the current situation of Baoneng Automobile is really not something that can be turned over by blowing N. Baoneng now has a lot of troubles, first of all, the problem of layoffs. Although in 2021, Baoneng is still on the official website for its own independent research and development of the achievements of "Wang Po selling melons", but since the second half of the year began large-scale layoffs, the automobile sector from about 23,000 people a year ago to about 8,400 people, the group and direct stores are layoffs "hardest hit areas", the proportion of layoffs exceeded 65%.
The second is the problem of unpaid wages. Many employees who claim to be Baoneng Automobile Group have exposed on the Internet that the company owes wages, social security, provident funds and so on. Some employees of Changshu Qoros Factory were also transferred to Chery's factories to assist in production.
According to earlier reports, Baoneng Automobile's manufacturing bases in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, and Kunming, Yunnan Province, were in a state of construction interruption, while the factory in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, was also due to financial problems, and the workshop was empty and did not put into substantial production.
Finally, there are the car stores that Baoneng keeps shutting down. These problems are basically caused by the lack of funds. To put it bluntly, there is no money, let alone selling cars, and it is not easy for Baoneng to build a car now.
As the first electric vehicle launched by Baoneng, the fate of the BAO GX5 car is a bit miserable, and after so many years of preparation, it is likely that there is no opportunity to even put into production. We can only hope that Bao can pull investment as soon as possible, not to mention selling, at least making mass production possible.
The Qoros 6 car is easy to think of the once brilliant Qoros 3 (there are also former Qoros staff revealed that the Qoros 6 is based on the Qoros 3 improvement, after all, the foundation is not bad). As the first Chinese model to achieve a five-star score in the European E-NCAP crash test, the Qoros 3 is still the favorite of many car owners. But the Qoros brand is already at the end of the road, and even the last trace of dignity has been trampled under the feet of the linkage cloud. Baoneng is short of funds, the factory is shut down, and this Qoros 6 may not even have the opportunity to become a linkage cloud.