Previously in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology declaration chart found in the saic motor Lingdu new model information, we also made a product introduction to the new products of SAIC Lingdu, the recent two days of SAIC Volkswagen officially opened a new Lingdu L pre-sale activities, and then this opportunity let's take a look at the new Lingdu in 2022 What are the upgrade points worth looking forward to.
The upgrade of Lingdu is relatively comprehensive, using a new platform for research and development, bringing a longer vehicle wheelbase and corresponding changes in the chassis tuning of the vehicle, and the appearance of the vehicle adopts a similar design to the family electric model, which is extremely rare in the Volkswagen brand models. The interior features a new family-based interior design concept, and the vehicle comes standard with youthful improvements such as frameless doors and hatchback tailgates. Overall, the changes in This Lingdu are very large, the fly in the ointment is that the Volkswagen brand did not apply its new 1.5T power to the Lingdu model, still using the 1.4T + 7DCT powertrain, a little regret, then let's take a look at the specific changes of this Lingdu.
Appearance "Big Change"
Lingdu model in the official listing of the external publicity description is "wide body coupe", but in the appearance design has been the use of Volkswagen's family design, although the details for the word "coupe" made some adjustments, change the height of the vehicle to improve the aspect ratio and add some sports details, but the Volkswagen family design itself is based on "stability", so the appearance of the old Lingdu is indeed not much sport.
However, this time the new Lingdu L model has broken this status quo, the new Lingdu L adopts the "super running design front face", the new design and the old Lingdu can not even see a trace of appearance of the association, this drastic upgrade in the Volkswagen brand models are rare. The new Lingdu L in the exterior design should be based on the design concept of pure electric vehicle models in the family model, and the front face adopts a new IQ.Light LED matrix light set, luminous LOGO, through-line light strip and large mouth front surround to form a slightly "mocking" front face. Compared with the current Lingdu on sale, the front face design of Lingdu L is more aggressive and more personalized.
The headlights of Lingdu L are called IQ.Light LED matrix headlights, and the shape of the light group is not much to say, you can see the above picture. The light group adopts a dual-lens design, and also sets up a penetrating transverse light strip at the junction of the cabin cover and the front bracket, the light strip runs through the luminous LOGO connecting the front face and the IQ.Light headlights on the left and right, weakening the existence of the grille, if it is not the existence of the large mouth front bracket under the light strip, it is like looking at a pure electric model.
The front face under the bracket uses chrome dot matrix as the decorative element of the lower enveloping grille, and adopts a polygon shape that is close to the inverted trapezoid, which looks like "laughing", and then matches the IQ.Light matrix headlights, which has a bad laugh.
In addition, the roof of Lingdu L is more obvious, the "ducktail" design of the trunk is also larger and more obvious, the waist line design has also changed, the waist line is disconnected from the rear door, and a new waist line from the rear door is connected to the "ducktail" of the trunk, and the side of the vehicle will be more moving. The vehicle circumference of the new Lingdu L is 4784x1831x1469mm, and the wheelbase reaches 2731mm, which is 75mm more than the wheelbase of the current Lingdu 2656mm, which is relatively large for the improvement of the passenger space in the car.
The tail design of Lingdu L is also very bold, the tail adopts a new shape, the through-type tail light group is finally arranged, officially called the pulse streamer 3D LED tail light group, and the tail is also set with a luminous LOGO. Also noticeable are the one-piece upturned tail wing (duckling tail) and the concealed double C sport exhaust, which is more pronounced with exhaust and a ring of chrome trim.
The rear tailgate of Lingdu L adopts a hatchback opening method, which is larger at the beginning and more convenient to pick up and place relatively large luggage, which is also seen on the Skoda Octavia PRO, which also uses the MQB-EVO platform, which is a good improvement. In addition, there is a little improvement that I believe everyone will like more. That is, the four doors of the whole car are frameless door design, frameless doors and hatchback tailgate design is standard on the new Lingdu L, and nothing else is said.
The interior is completely renewed
The interior design of Lingdu L adopts a new family design, which is very similar to the eighth generation of golf, called the digital vision intelligent connection cockpit, of which the more conspicuous is the 10-inch full LCD instrument and the 12-inch multimedia screen composed of an integrated dual-screen design, which brings a stronger sense of technology to the car. You can also see that there is an atmosphere light strip around the center console in the interior, and the 30-color atmosphere light can be adjusted. Other details that are very similar to the eighth generation of golf will not be mentioned.
The wheelbase of the new Lingdu L is 2731mm, which is 75mm more than the current Lingdu's 2656mm wheelbase, and the interior space is significantly improved, especially the leg space performance of the rear row can obviously be seen to improve a lot, but the user needs to pay attention to the fact that because the new Lingdu L is more obviously slipped back design, so the head space of the rear row will definitely be compressed a part, so how much impact on the head space of the rear passengers still needs to be carefully experienced when looking at the real car. The standard volume of the trunk is 545L, which is no problem to meet the storage needs of daily use.
The one-button start button of the new Lingdu L is placed in front of the gear, and the silver one-button start button is set in front of the P button, which is more convenient than the position under the steering wheel. In addition to the one-button activation button, the P-gear button, the electronic shift lever, the electronic handbrake button and the automatic parking switch button are all in this area, and the convenience of daily control will be improved.
Intelligent configuration is also the focus of this upgrade, the new Lingdu L support IQ.Drive L2 level driving assistance function, the vehicle is equipped with a variety of active driving assistance functions, but limited by the current stage of the limited information, it will not be explained one by one. There are also aspects of intelligent vehicle and machine systems and active and passive safety functions that will be shared with you after the official launch of the new Lingdu L.
Power is the point of regret of this upgrade, many users may know that the new powertrain of Volkswagen Group is 1.5T + 7DCT powertrain, foreign eighth-generation Golf and other new models have adopted a new power of 1.5T, and the domestic use of MQB-EVO platform for production and manufacturing of vehicles is not currently equipped with this set of powertrains, such as the eighth generation of Golf, Octavia PRO and other models, the new Lingdu L also did not use this new powertrain, unfortunately.
The new Lingdu L is still using a 1.4T+7DCT powertrain, of which the maximum power of the 1.4T turbo engine is 110kW, the maximum torque is 250N·m, the engine codename is EA211 series, and the EA211 series has been upgraded several times since 2013, although it has been changed and upgraded several times, but there are new models and we can't use them, which is also a knot that is difficult to cross for many users.
It is hoped that in the future, volkswagen group will seize the opportunity to apply the new 1.5T+7DCT powertrain to the new models of the MQB-EVO platform at this stage.
In general, the upgrade of the new Lingdu L is still relatively obvious, although there is no new powertrain, but the vehicle also has its own internal improvement, after all, the new Lingdu L is developed and built using the MQB-EVO platform. The power is not upgraded, but the electronic architecture upgrade in the car is real, the use experience of various functions of the vehicle will be more obvious, plus the new Lingdu L also adopts a lot of hardware configurations that young users care about, such as frameless doors, large slipback body, digital cockpit, etc., the attractiveness of young users should be greatly improved, then the increase in sales is definitely nailed down.
Information integration and analysis
The pre-sale policy of the new Lingdu L is shown in the figure above, there are some policies that will be available for the listing of conventional new cars, such as deposit expansion, old for new, value-preserving repurchase, gift maintenance and other policies, one of which is more fun is to add "clothes" point spicy pre-sale rights, showing that the additional 666 yuan to enjoy the official color change service, Lingdu L is exposed on the Internet a variety of different colors of the body program, but these programs are too colorful compared to the previous Volkswagen brand cars, so I have been skeptical, However, if combined with the "clothes" spicy policy in the pre-sale rights, the 5 colored bodies in the above figure are most likely to be the official body color change program, and this pre-sale interest is still more attractive.
However, the Internet also exposed a suspected new Lingdu L vehicle color, a total of 6 different colors, respectively cigar gray, rock tea ash, pepper white, mint blue, pepper red and agave blue, these colors are relatively close to the conventional car color of the Volkswagen brand, so combined with the information in the above figure, the exposure of the 6 vehicle colors is really very high, we can use as a car color reference.
At present, the Internet has also exposed a suspected new Lingdu L vehicle price, pre-sale temporary price of 159,900 - 199,900 yuan, a total of 4 model configurations. The official guidance price of the current Lingdu model on sale is 149,900-186,900 yuan, which is pushed backwards by the price range of the current model, and the price of the suspected new Lingdu L exposed on the Internet is still more credible, but the exposure price is not the real price, and the pre-sale temporary price is also likely to be appropriately lowered when it is officially listed. If you take the pre-sale price as a reference, do you think the new Lingdu L is worth buying?
I am Teacher Mu, and I hope that you will buy a car and take fewer detours.
(The picture comes from the declaration map of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the official website of the Volkswagen brand, and the emperor of the car, written by: Teacher Mu)