To say that the hottest topic recently, it must be the just-concluded Beijing Winter Olympics, in this Winter Olympic Games, led by Gu Ailing, Su Yiming led by young athletes, let more Chinese feel the charm of snow sports. In fact, in recent years, riding on the east wind of the Beijing Winter Olympics, ice and snow sports have been on the rise in domestic popularity, especially skiing, which can be seen from the full ski resorts during the snow season holidays.
For ski enthusiasts, when going skiing, you need to carry a large bag of ski equipment, not only need to have a wide storage space of transportation, but also need to be able to separate the ski equipment from other luggage, after all, no one wants to finish skiing after the wet ski equipment to make the car dirty. From a practical point of view, pickup trucks may be more suitable as skiing support vehicles than station wagons and SUVs that also have large storage space. This time, I was invited to the ski resort of Inner Mongolia Karaqin Banner Meilin Valley for an ice and snow engagement with The Great General G9 of Futian Pickup.
Fade away the movement and wildness It is still the face value of the bearer
First of all, from the appearance point of view, the General G9 adopts a large number of hardcore elements design, and takes into account the sense of practicality, whether it is going out to play, or daily work, a variety of practical scenes it can be competent. In the front part of the face, the General G9 uses chrome material "FOTON" logo, and the surrounding grille also adopts a more traditional black spoke structure, although the shape is relatively simple, but you can still vaguely feel the wildness in its body. Although the two sides of the headlight group uses a halogen light source, the overall contour shape is still an angular tough design, coupled with the outline of the LED daytime lamp, you can also feel the hardcore attributes of the General G9.
Coming to the side of the body, you can first intuitively feel the practical attributes of the General G9, including the roof rack, the side foot pedals and the body gantry. Although the practicality is very strong, you can find that it is not blindly public, but there is a hint of calm hidden in it. Although the front and rear wheel arches are high and bulging in shape, creating a muscular sense of the body, the overall combination with the body is not obtrusive, and the visual effect has a good sense of unity. And the wheel style also creates a fashion sense through multi-spoke shape and chrome material, coupled with the four season tires that are more inclined to road driving, making the General G9 able to take into account more diversified practical scenes.
As for the rear part, the overall design is still full of hard style, and the rear cargo door is also equipped with hydraulic tie rods and drawstrings, which can make the user more labor-saving when opening the rear cargo compartment door, and also give the rear cargo compartment door a good support. After opening the rear cargo compartment door, it can be seen that thanks to the wheelbase of the long-box version of the model of 3400mm, the interior space of the rear cargo compartment is relatively spacious, and the "cargo box treasure" is also sprayed inside the rear cargo compartment to prevent the problem of rusting the body. In addition, the General G9 also arranged 4 anchor points on both sides of the outer side of the rear cargo compartment, and then matched with the rear cargo compartment gantry, which can play a good role in fixing the goods.
Fashion design plus solid materials The sense of quality has improved significantly
Entering the interior of the armored general's car, first of all, the overall design of the car is not unfamiliar, and the interior has a strong family attribute. Although the center console is a more traditional T-shaped layout, but with gold trim, imitation carbon fiber trim panels, matte silver trim and other details design, giving the car a good sense of layering and refinement, especially the blue-brown interior color matching, not only can get rid of the pickup truck "stupid big stupid" tool car image, while the dark tone is also more conducive to consumers to clean and clean in daily use.
In terms of configuration, although equipped with a floating central control screen, the size has been reduced. The functionality of the central control screen car machine system has also been reduced to a certain extent, such as navigation systems, third-party APP and car networking functions are not available, but the car machine system has built-in Baidu CarLife function, which to a certain extent alleviates consumers' demand for the use of technology configuration.
Thanks to the 8-speed automatic transmission from ZF, the General G9 is equipped with a compact electronic shift lever, and multiple driving function control buttons are arranged around the shift lever, including electronic handbrake, parking assist, driving mode switching, drive mode switching, steep slope mitigation and other functions, which can give users more support and more convenient control when driving.
The same color scheme as the interior, the seats of the armored General G9 are also wrapped in blue and brown double color block design leather, and the chair surface is also decorated with asymmetrical stitching and red stitching with the word "GENERAL", creating a good sense of refinement from the visual. The internal padding is not too soft, but can give the body a certain amount of support, will not occur after a long drive in the case of back pain. In addition, the General G9 is also equipped with the electric adjustment of the main seat and the heating function of the front seat as standard, which greatly improves the riding comfort of the front passengers.
Double Hundred Power Plus BorgWarner 4WD All-Terrain Experience Starts Right Now
Compared with the previous pure road test drive, this time The Futian Pickup official chose the test drive location in the icy Kalaqin Banner Meilin Valley in Inner Mongolia, as a ski resort, with winding and rolling mountains, thick snow and hard ice that constitute its main geographical environment. Although for safety reasons, the test drive of the original factory car will not go down the road purely to go off-road to the non-paved road, but only the paved road is also covered with a large amount of snow and ice formed by the ice and snow mixed road surface, coupled with the winding winding mountain section, such a posture is not all cars can withstand it.
If you want to conquer such a cold and smooth mixed ice and snow road, you must first have a "good body", the General G9 is equipped with a 2.0T diesel power that inherits the century-old Cummins surging technology gene, which can output a maximum power of 120 kilowatts and a peak torque of 390 Nm. It also matches the century-old classic ZF 8-speed automatic transmission.
In addition, the General G9 is also equipped with a timely four-wheel drive system from BorgWarner, which can switch four-wheel drive modes through the knob in the shift area, including automatic, high-speed two-wheel drive, high-speed four-wheel drive and low-speed four-wheel drive, among which in the low-speed four-wheel drive mode, the vehicle output torque can be amplified and the ability to get out of trouble, coupled with the traditional non-bearing body and the front double wishbone rear leaf spring overall bridge suspension structure, giving the General G9 a good off-road performance. If this off-road performance doesn't meet your word, the Grand Admiral G9 also supports the optional Eaton Rear Axle Differential Lock, which can further improve the vehicle's complex road passability.
After driving the General G9 to the ice and snow, I did not switch the four-wheel drive system to high-speed four-wheel drive or low-speed four-wheel drive mode, but kept it in automatic mode, in this mode, the General G9 will be very intelligent to switch the drive mode at any time according to the tire slippage situation. Although the Great General G9 armored General of this test drive is only equipped with a shallow pattern of four season tires, but with the characteristics of the diesel engine low speed and high torque, as well as the continuous output grip of the BorgWarner four-wheel drive system, the Great General G9 can easily complete the driving of the ice and snow road, as long as the vehicle is kept within a reasonable speed range, and before entering the corner, reduce the speed of the car in advance and avoid sharp braking, even if the General G9 is a relatively large pickup truck, There will also be no additional slippage or loss of grip.
Because the local in order to make the steep mountain road covered by ice and snow can also have enough friction, so the use of brick paving method, although the friction on the ice and snow road surface increased, but the uneven road surface just put the test for the suspension system of the General G9. The suspension of the General G9 adopts a front double wishbone type and a rear leaf spring type non-independent structure, coupled with a non-load-bearing body with trapezoidal girders, it sounds like it can feel its excellent support.
Although the suspension structure is the more "Old School" design of the pickup truck, which is biased to provide support and cargo capacity for the vehicle, it can be felt that the Foton pickup truck is actually intentionally integrating comfort into this suspension system. Although when passing through the brick road, the driver and occupant can still feel the vibration coming from the chassis, which is after all derived from the innate characteristics of the suspension structure, but if we compare the pickup trucks with the same suspension structure laterally, the vibration suppression of the General G9 is relatively excellent, and there will be no particularly strong impact, but the vibration will be transmitted to the driver and occupant in a gentle way.
Write at the end
In the final analysis, the situation of ice and snow sports in China seems to be similar to the situation of pickup trucks in the domestic automobile market, once they were relatively unpopular, but in recent years they have become popular, but due to various constraints they have not yet ushered in a hot moment. For the current stage of pickup trucks, they have been able to meet the needs of the vast majority of consumers, from a rational point of view, pickup trucks as an everyday car can be fully competent, but from the perspective of sensibility, consumers may still not accept it. Maybe none of us can say when the pickup truck market will usher in a big explosion, but from the current point of view, if you want to buy pickup trucks, they are good enough at the moment, and the Futian Pickup Truck Series is one of them. Suitable for the right, try to know, maybe your pickup truck life, tomorrow will begin.