Since the outbreak of the Passat Zhongbao Research Institute incident at the end of 2019, the impact on SAIC Volkswagen has not been completely eliminated until now. For saic and Volkswagen now, it is in urgent need of a heavy enough model to save the market, in order to revitalize sales, so Lingdu L came.
In 2015, SAIC Volkswagen Lingdu officially entered the domestic automobile market, with its wide body + coupe design style, as well as the title of the then hot national variety show "Run Bar Brother", so that Lingdu quickly opened the market in China, and its sales volume ranked among the top three in the car market for a long time.
However, with the continuous upgrading of competitors, Lingdu, which was listed in 2015, has obviously been a bit inadequate, and has long fallen out of the mainstream model ranks of the car market. After 7 years, SAIC Volkswagen has finally replaced Lingdu. In terms of naming, not only did it add the suffix "L" to Lingdu to become Lingdu L, but the design style was to change the consistent style of the public's "matryoshka face".
Refuse matryoshka face, frameless door blessing
It is reported that Lingdu L will be based on the MQB Evo platform to build, compared with the current model, the most obvious change in the new car is the appearance and interior, there is a change in the bone. In terms of appearance, Lingdu L adopts the latest design language, and the overall design is more inclined to the ID. family, such as the front face through the daytime running light strip, the new logo of the "VW" that can be lit, etc., which are all design elements adopted by the ID. family.
At the same time, the front face of Lingdu L also adopts a penetrating front grille design, which is somewhat similar to the design of Ferrari Portofino, while the interior of the central net uses dot matrix decoration. Overall, the first impression of Lingdu L is to subvert the traditional perception of the outside world for the public.
Coming to the side, the body of Lingdu L is still designed with a double waist line, but equipped with a frameless door that young people have been pursuing, and it will become a frameless coupe model with the "lowest entry threshold" that consumers can buy after listing.
In addition, the body size of Lingdu L has also been improved, the length, width and height of the vehicle are 4784/1831/1469mm, the wheelbase is 2731mm, compared with the current model length increased by 170mm, the wheelbase length is lengthened by 75mm, compared to other A-class family cars, Lingdu L has undoubtedly a more spacious space performance.
In addition to the appearance, Lingdu L's changes in interior design are also earth-shaking, using a dual screen design, although such a design has been used in many models, but it is the first time in the history of Volkswagen, which is definitely a breakthrough for Volkswagen.
In terms of configuration, Lingdu L also provides a W-HUD system, which is rare in joint venture vehicles. In addition, the new car adopts intelligent cockpit area Ethernet technology, bidding farewell to the previous brick car system. The transmission efficiency of its core functional modules has reached 100M/s, and the functionality and ecological richness of the infotainment system have been greatly improved.
Missing 1.5T became the biggest regret
From the perspective of design and configuration, the changes made by Lingdu L have made the outside world see the rare sincerity of SAIC Volkswagen, and for Lingdu L, the most regrettable place is the power. It is reported that Lingdu L will not be equipped with the latest EA211 EVO 1.5T engine, which is still equipped with the EA211 1.4T engine and provides two versions of high and low power.
Its specific parameter information and the current model should not be much different, the low-power version of the maximum horsepower of 131Ps, the maximum torque of 225N·m; while the high-power version of the maximum horsepower will reach 150Ps, the maximum torque of 250N·m, matching the 7-speed dual-clutch transmission.
From the perspective of the positioning of Lingdu L, in fact, it is not much different from the SAW-Volkswagen Sagittarius, although it is not available for the 1.5T engine, but lingdu L is more youthful and sporty in design. In particular, the installation of frameless doors is the "king fried" thrown by SAIC Volkswagen in the A+ class sports car market, which has great appeal to young users.
For the design of Lingdu L, in fact, the Internet has been mixed, changing the inherent impression of the outside world on the maturity and stability of Volkswagen, which is a bit too radical. But it should be known that the positioning of Lingdu L itself is the sports car market, and its target consumer population is also the younger generation, and the appearance design of Lingdu L cannot be viewed with the aesthetics of middle-aged people, after all, it is itself a product of catering to young people.
Write at the end:
At present, Lingdu L has opened blind booking and will be available this month. For Lingdu L, there is no doubt about the product strength, it is the work of the public that has little conscience, whether it can return to the glory of the year, the most important thing is to see how the pricing is after the listing. The author personally speculates that the price range of Lingdu L will be between 140,000 and 200,000 yuan, I don't know what you think?