We all know that Lexus' first electric car was a joke.
You go to the Lexus 4S store to see ES 300h and NX 260, if you can pry a penny out of the sales mouth, I respect you as a man...
But UX300e is a special case. As soon as it appears, it will be accompanied by two questions, one is whether this car has been bought? There is also a question of how much this car is discounted, and the topic will end with "this car discount of 100,000".
Although the official guidance price of 360,000 is very exaggerated, even that Lexus will be taught by the market and double points, and it is still gratifying to know this.
However, we all know that the strength of Lexus must be more than this, Mercedes-Benz also used EQC before EQS, Audi Q5 e-tron is also obviously more like an electric car than Q2 e-tron, luxury brands must be rolled up in the electric vehicle collar, after all, the luxury car customer base is naturally more receptive to new energy than the ordinary brand customer group, which is the truth that Weilai has verified.
So Lexus brought an electric car that looked more serious this time , the RZ450e.
The information of this new electric vehicle was released along with the official news of "LEXUS announces global sales results in 2021", and the details of the parameters are not available, but it is determined that it will be officially launched this spring.
The RZ450e's exterior design is enough to prove to us that it is serious, the front face is a grilleless design, but retains the unique family characteristics of Lexus.
The waistline extending from the front wheel gives the car a more exaggerated expression than the new NX, reminiscent of the stunning debut of the first generation of NX. The pure side is also very stretched, and the body emphasizes the low-sturdy sports temperament, which can be regarded as the most handsome SUV in Lexus at present.
The real thing is at the tail, what through-the-taillights are common, but let's look at the area between the rear wheels and the rear bumper:
handsome.
I stared at this place for half a day, did not understand how this thing is spliced, is there a big guy from the main engine factory to interpret it?
There are not many things that can be interpreted in the design, and the handsome is finished. But after all, this is still a more traditional brand, so the state presented is still very familiar, if the RZ450e is not a pure electric vehicle but a hybrid, it still looks like there is no sense of violation, so it has design advantages over EQB and Q5 e-tron, but the advantages are not very large.
In addition to the styling, we can also speculate about the RZ450e from some backgrounds. The first is the platform, which will undoubtedly be born out of Toyota's e-TNGA architecture, and the platform will be shared with the Toyota BZ4x, which will be slightly larger in size than the Lexus NX.
This also means that the RZ450e will be positioned as a pure electric compact or medium-sized SUV, and the "450e" level of power also indicates that the motor output will never be small. Toyota BZ4x four-wheel drive high-end model is a 160kW output of two 80kW motors - this power is not enough for the "450" shoes, so the RZ450e is likely to be equipped with two new high-power electric motors.
Of course, as a Lexus that can give the global ES five kinds of power systems, it is natural to think of RZ with different power and different endurance, which we can look forward to.
As for the price, the Toyota BZ4x is priced at £41,950 in the UK, and this price can be bought for a Mercedes-Benz E-Class or Hyundai Shengda, referring to the price of Lexus, the RZ450e is likely to reach more than £50,000.
In addition, in the extranet also revealed Lexus's outlook for pure electric vehicles, which mentioned that Lexus's expectations for EVs are "able to bring a sense of movement", combined with the UX300e and RZ450e are SUVs, it is likely to improve the position of "sports SUV" that Lexus's existing product line is absent.
epilogue:
This time Lexus seriously built the sports SUV can still see the highlights, the shape is very handsome, reminiscent of the earliest NX and LC, compared to Mercedes-Benz EQB and Q5 e-tron advantages are very large, probably can be the same as Cadillac LYRIQ. Mercedes-Benz EQE and EQS prove that people can accept electric vehicles, but also prove that luxury brands can also build different electric vehicles, and Whether RZ450e can bring us this freshness and create a "neoclassical" trend, we will wait and see.
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