At its peak last year, Sanyang DGR gained the choice of scooters for most athletes. Indeed, in terms of performance, power and even appearance, it has good reason to win love.
But this year, Gwangyo finally made another effort, so that the domestic sports pedal market is no longer a "car" dominant. Compared with Gwangyo's previous products, the new KRV180 seems to bring the brand into a new era, and the PTM drivetrain that inherits the top car also makes it the only one in its class.
At the beginning of last month, Gwangyang announced the price of two versions of CKD's KRV180 in mainland China: ABS version 27,800 yuan and ABS+TCS version 29,800 yuan. The test drive model is the TCS version.
For this car, I think many people most look forward to its power, and I hope that it is the kind that gives oil to look up, but in fact, it surprises you. The KRV180 is equipped with an engine that is biased towards high-rev output, which is bound to be weak in the initial stage of power, and it is not as good as many 150cc class sports models, but this is not its disadvantage.
The difference in power characteristics, the achievement of the character of each sports car, KRV180 power is the kind of straight line and tail speed.
Although the power in the initial stage is not outstanding, but after the speed rises to 5000rpm, the extension of the power is very long, so that it is sprinkled with water to quickly reach 100km/h, but if you want to accelerate up to 120km/h, it is a bit time-consuming, but it is more dynamic than many comfortable 200cc pedals.
However, the high speed of the power is very fragrant, but there is also a clear vibration feeling. Because of the use of engine center and PTM drivetrain, which causes it to transmit vibration to the pedal, which is much more obvious than that of conventional scooters, the foot plate can clearly feel the change in engine speed.
Since it has a great impact on comfort, why does Gwangyang adopt this layout? This brings us to another and outstanding advantage of the KRV180.
PTM drive system may sound relatively unfamiliar to everyone, it uses the same transmission structure of AK550 and TMAX560, so that everyone is not somewhat impressed. Unlike the conventional pedal, which places the transmission box on the left side of the rear wheel, the mid-mounted engine and transmission layout, the use of an external belt to transmit power from the center to the rear wheel has little impact on the power, but the center of gravity of the vehicle and the weight under the rear suspension spring have changed greatly.
The front and rear counterweights have therefore been optimized, there is no top-heavy feeling when cornering quickly, and in the process of winding the pile, the overall follow-up is very strong, and the rigidity of the frame that can feel very assured can also experience easy follow-up.
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It sounds like a good driver, but it is not a car that can be ridden at the beginning, and because of the different counterweights from most scooters, it makes its sharpness in the corners and turns close to the car, and sometimes it will be stunned, and it will cost a little learning cost.
So for the KRV180 I think its strength lies in the handling, and in terms of power, it takes some modification effort. Through the Taiwan media learned, perhaps because of the quality and durability of the factors, the KRV180 on sale than the early engineering vehicle in the power weakened a lot, in fact, the potential of this engine can be tapped is still very large, through the modification of hardware and ECU brushing, will definitely make its power have a big change.
If the owner of the car has higher sports demands in the later stage (such as running the track with this car), the front suspension can be upgraded to the damping harder, the original suspension is more comfortable, when encountering the unevenness of the road surface and heavy braking, the cushioning effect of the suspension is still very obvious, the street corners and mountain roads are no problem, but if the running track or heavy bending needs, it still needs to be improved later.
Overall, the KRV180 original factory has a good foundation, personally feel that the characteristics of Gwangyang in it to focus on sports has exceeded the daily transportation needs, in the same level of models is definitely a durable and can play the one.
From the KRV180, I not only saw the small displacement pedal camp battle join a sports strongman, but also saw the awakening of the light and yang. Its arrival reminds me of the early record of the cornering lover, Gwangyo has been passive in the sports pedal market for a long time, and this time it is finally going to start to show its fists again.