The Great Wall Tank 300 is definitely a phenomenon-level hardcore off-road vehicle, before the advent of the Tank 300, the autonomous hardcore off-road market has been in a state of silence, the only hope is that Beijing off-road has not set off much wind and waves for decades because of technical and business problems. This is also the result of the domestic hardcore off-road market has been monopolized by foreign car companies for a long time, and the emergence of the tank 300 has completely reversed this situation.
It is precisely because the tank 300 is too hot, so that other independent brands have seen the business opportunities, and they have wanted to enter the hardcore off-road market with the intention of getting a piece of the pie, including shortcuts. At the Jietu brand night some time ago, Jietu officially released a hardcore SUV concept car - Jietu T-X, which instantly caused a lot of discussion on the Internet.
Among them, the most discussed is the strength of the T-X product and the future prospects after the listing. So, will the Jetway T-X become another phenomenon in the hardcore off-road market after the Tank 300?
Off-road, home use is all required
Different from other hardcore off-road vehicles, Jetway T-X has two structures of load-bearing body and non-load-bearing body, that is to say, after the future listing of Jetway T-X, there are both options to meet the needs of household SUVs, as well as hardcore off-road new, which can be described as fish and bear paws.
In fact, Great Wall Motors has already tried such an approach, and the Haval Dog and the Tank 300 are almost like this. As a carrier-type body structure, Haval Big Dog not only has a hard-hitting shape design, but also can achieve light off-roading; the tank 300 with a non-bearing body has a more powerful off-road ability, and it is this combination that makes Great Wall Motors capture the off-road market within 300,000 yuan.
However, at present, the Jietu T-X is still in the concept car stage, and it is still unknown whether the design of the concept car will be restored after mass production in the future. It is certain that the bearer body structure and the non-load-bearing body structure of the car will be distinguished in the design, as far as the design of the current Jietu T-X concept is concerned, it is still more in line with the current aesthetic of the hardcore off-road vehicle, quite a taste of land Rover Defender, and because of this, it can cause many netizens to discuss after its debut.
More powerful than the tank 300
The tank 300 is currently equipped with a 2.0T engine as standard in the entire series, with a maximum power of 167 kW and a maximum torque of 387 N·m. In terms of transmission, the tank 300 matches the 8AT gearbox, the drive form adopts the front four-wheel drive, and is equipped with a timely four-wheel drive and a time-sharing four-wheel drive to choose from, which is also the key to the tank 300's strong off-road capability.
On the side of Jietu X-T, according to the current engine of Chery Automobile, Jietu X-T will be equipped with a 2.0TGDI engine independently developed by Chery, which will also be the first time after the birth of this engine to be installed on the Jietu brand model. From the parameter point of view, Chery's 2.0TGDI engine will reach a maximum power of 192kW, and the maximum torque is as high as 400N·m, which is more powerful than the power of the tank 300. As for the professional off-road configuration, the official has not yet expressed its position.
However, the gearbox problem has always been a common problem of Chery and Chery's sub-brands, if the Gittarius X-T continues to use Chery's "classic" 7DCT gearbox in the future, the advantages of the Jetto X-T in power will be greatly reduced. For hardcore off-road vehicles, it also has to be a reliable AT transmission to be competent.
In addition, the Jetway T-X model with a load-bearing body structure does not rule out the possibility of equipping Chery 1.6TGDI engine to reduce the entry threshold.
In fact, at the Jietu brand conference, Jietu has publicly stated that after mass production, the car will be equipped with Chery's Kunpeng power, with a global power architecture, including PHEV, pure electric, hybrid and so on. In terms of model selection, the Jetway T-X will certainly be more abundant than the tank 300 in the future.
Not optimistic about the Shortcut T-X only because it was born in the wrong place?
All in all, the current parameter information about the Jietu T-X is not much published, and even the design after the future mass production is still unknown. But there have been a lot of voices that have sung the jietu T-X, the reason is that the product power of the jietu is simply not enough to support the hardcore off-road vehicle.
As a low-end brand under Chery, Jietu has always won with cost performance, which has led to many people's first impression of Jietu being cheap. The Jietu T-X is obviously the brand upward work of Jietu Automobile, and its price will surely set a new high for Jietu Automobile, but this is contrary to the product positioning of Jietu Automobile itself.
Why was the Tank 300 under the WEY banner when it was first born? The reason is that WEY itself is positioned as a high-end brand, and if the Tank 300 is under the Banner of Haval, it is difficult to achieve such achievements as it is now. Now that there is a success story of the Tank 300, why not directly assign the Jetway T-X to the Starway banner? This can not only make the tepid star path revitalized, but also further enhance the image of the whole vehicle.
Finally, there is the problem of product pricing, from the perspective of the power scheme given by the official Jietu, the power choice of the Jietu T-X is too much, plus there are two kinds of body structures, which also leads to too rich models, which is bound to widen the product price range.
According to speculation from the outside world, the starting price of Jietu T-X after listing will be about 150,000 yuan, but the final pricing of 2.0T models, plug-in hybrid models and pure electric models is simply impossible in the price range of 150,000 yuan. Chery and chery's sub-brands have not been clear enough in terms of product positioning, and this has not changed in Jietu T-X.
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In summary, after the future mass production of Jietu T-X, if the shape remains unchanged, there will be a certain market. But if you want to reach the same height as the tank 300, in terms of the influence of the shortcut, it is almost impossible to achieve, and more will become the choice of people who can't afford to buy the tank 300 and choose the shortcut T-X.
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