The AiTO M5 of Céris held a launch delivery ceremony in Shanghai this afternoon, and I ran to one of their test drives yesterday.
Since the several AITO M5 that organized the test drive are hung with foreign (Chongqing) license plates, the test drive route needs to avoid downtown Shanghai, and the specific process is to start from Pudong Sanjia Port (near Pudong Airport) along the Yangtze River Tunnel Bridge through Changxing Island to Chongming, and then stop near Chongming Dongtan Wetland Park to shoot and then return to Sanjia Port. The entire test drive route is nearly 200 kilometers back and forth, including a small number of urban roads, others high-speed tunnels, bridges and a little country road.
For this new car, I actually focus on two things: 1. How does this car feel when it drives? How does it feel to say that the 1.5T four-cylinder range extender specially built for the extender feels? 2. Is the Huawei Hongmeng intelligent car technology good or not? Are there any obvious bugs? Next, let me talk about my test drive experience:
appearance:
The design of the car is decent, the proportions are quite coordinated, it is not ugly, but there is nothing eye-catching. Another female media teacher in the same car and I commented that the appearance of the car looks a little old-fashioned - this may be the appetite of some more conservative and moderate users, but as a new force new energy model, it may be relatively weak for young people. The model that was offered for test drives yesterday was either silver, white, or a deep blue that was close to black, and it felt a little too calm. Look at the official website has a green version, although I did not see the real thing, but I guess the visual effect will be better.
The same goes for the interior, my car's agate brown (earth yellow?). The interior workmanship is actually quite good, but I always feel that this color is really not good-looking, and it does not show any sense of luxury or technology. If it can be a light gray or white interior, it should feel like it should be popular with young people?
ride:
The driver's seat is well wrapped and soft. The back row space doesn't feel like much (after all, it's a mid-size SUV), and it's just plain enough. Maybe it's my tall legs, and I feel that if I want to lie in the back row, the support of my thighs here is still a little less. Overall, the aito M5's driving/riding comfort is OK, and it would be better if the rear space could be bigger.
The skylight is a glass roof that cannot be opened without sunshades, and I felt that there was sunburn when I returned to Pudong from Chongming yesterday afternoon, but the glass was still cold when I touched it. I heard that I will send sun blinds when I buy a car now, and I think this is a must! In addition, although the vehicle uses double glazing, the quietness of driving and riding can only be regarded as OK but not excellent, and the feeling is mainly that the tire noise is slightly larger.
Intelligent vehicle machine:
The large screen equipped with Huawei Hongmeng car machine is extremely smooth to operate, and this is really not to be picked! I repeatedly jumped through various menu functions, and the responsiveness and chirality were no different from using a highly configured tablet, and the experience was very good. Before seeing some netizens commented that there were bugs such as flashbacks in the test drive machine in the store, but I repeatedly experimented and tossed and turned along the way yesterday, and its performance was very stable, which must be praised again. In addition, after looking at the current functions of the car, the functions are relatively complete, and I can't think of any special features that I want and it does not have. Of course, you want to use AutoNavi Map and it only has Huawei's Petal Maps (yesterday it was good to use, no problem), you want to listen to QQ music but it only has Himalaya (this is temporarily unsolvable, can only wait for the improvement of the application market in the future)...
The UI aspect is also as long as you can operate the tablet quickly and skillfully. It's just that I don't understand the main interface of this car machine that is empty in its default state:
The whole screen is a big wallpaper that can be dragged and changed? All functional areas are displayed in the smart dock below in the form of icons, which is a useless small icon without clicking on? Why can't you design a few cards/gadgets on your desktop to display the current navigation map, play music, and car condition information? Why is it so empty? After all, the main screen of the car machine and the home tablet are not the same thing, and it should not be so idle when driving! I feel that Huawei prefers that you can customize the desktop according to your own needs and use Hongmeng's intelligent sub-windows, floating windows and other features. But I still hope that they can display all the information on the default main interface.
In terms of voice control, I feel that the sensitivity and recognition accuracy rate of Huawei's "Xiaoyi Xiaoyi" (including the four divisions in the car) feel good, but because my experience time is relatively short, I can't do evaluation. However, it occasionally mistakes the conversation between the passengers in the car as a command, and there seems to be room for optimization.
Audio:
There is no other brand, it is a very standard Huawei Sound system. What I test-drove yesterday was a mid-range "performance version" that is said to have 19 horns and 1000+ watts of amplifiers. After listening to it, the overall feeling is still good, at least the fullness and strength of the low frequency can be satisfactory (sighing at the ideal ONE). Overall, the sound is relatively transparent, and the sense of encirclement created by multiple speakers is also good, but the delicacy is relatively general - this may also be because the quality of the sound source is not good enough (the machine does not open a VIP account for Huawei Music, and it is impossible to select high-quality or lossless audio sources). What I prefer is that the AITO Q&I M5 also has an independent main driver headrest sound and can play the navigation voice from the headrest alone, but what I hate is that the sound quality of this headrest sound is not good, that is, a level that can make a sound. Well, it feels like the headrest sound of the Xiaopeng P7 is a hill of raccoons...
Other aspects of the interior:
It must be praised HUD, it turns out that this thing is still better than nothing at this stage; the interior atmosphere light can adjust 128 colors, and it can also be lit when Xiaoyi works, but if the color selection is not good, it will feel a little rustic; the wireless charging board design of the mobile phone in front of the handrail box is not very reasonable, too thin and long so that my OPPO FIND N can not be charged, but the Huawei of another media teacher in the same car can not activate the wireless charger is very embarrassing The two Type-C ports below the rear exhaust vent are fast charging, which is good! There are also multiple cameras in the car, some of which can be used to land on the driver's face and detect fatigue, and some of which are purely self-portraits or even WeChat video conversations. Well, as long as there is no privacy leakage problem with these things, I can actually accept it.
This image and the image below are provided by the official photography team
Driving Experience:
1, AITO Q&I M5 is also a pure electric drive range extender SUV (the same as my ideal ONE), so there is no mileage anxiety problem itself. The official claim that the maximum endurance can exceed 1200 kilometers, of course, this is calculated according to the cltc's unreliable algorithm. On the AITO Q&I M5, users can switch between different statistical methods, and a process calculation method called "synthesis" is said to be closer to reality. By the way, the car pure electricity under the battery theory shutter of 40 degrees to drive 150km, but this is the WLTC worker and actually 20% of it will be retained until the last moment of life-saving, so you will be when it has a pure electric range of 100 kilometers. This distance is also enough for most people to commute to work, that is, daily travel only uses electricity;
2, 1.5T range extender after starting there is a certain amount of movement and vibration, but it is also completely acceptable (I can even accept the ideal ONE three-cylinder 1.2T is still afraid of this?). ）。 The performance version's 4.8s starting power in "catapult" mode is really excessive in daily life, and the actual use of "Comfort" mode can easily cope with any form of urban road, and there is no need to even switch to "Sport" mode. In fact, I think the "sport" mode push back feeling is strong but the car is a bit "channeling". So if I had to choose, I might choose the two-wheel drive version of the lowest AITO Asker M5 - is 7.1s zero hundred not enough?
3, comfortable mode, starting and braking are the kind of feeling very soft but the actual strength of the experience, the speed of the increase can also be braked, feel good; but compared to the ideal ONE, I think the chassis of this car is still a bit hard, over the speed bump will "cluck" a bit but there is no unnecessary bits and pieces of action, very crisp and clean. Turning to something, the feeling is also the regular level, there is no place where the sense is particularly strong, but there is really nothing that will make people dissatisfied;
4. L2 assisted driving was enabled on Chongming Road, which can achieve lane centering and ACC. I think it does a good job of maintaining a distance from the car, starting not fast but still following a tight one at the shortest distance setting. We had a time when we were going to shoot in a convoy for the convenience of the organizers, but we had to change speed several times in a row because we encountered some social vehicles that cut in line and overtook. Anyway, I turned on ACC to let it control the distance on its own, and the whole person would be very relaxed.
However, its lane centering has a slight "drawing dragon" when driving in the tunnel, and the amplitude is not large, but it can still be found that it will constantly correct the left and right sides of the lane and cannot be completely centered. Of course, this range of left-right deviation will not affect the safe operation of L2 assisted driving, but I think there is still room for improvement - it seems that the 2021 ideal ONE has the same problem when it first came out.
To summarize:
How to say it, in addition to the smoothness of the car machine is really amazing to me, AITO Q&A M5 gives me the biggest feeling is "decent": the appearance / interior design is more moderate, the space and comfort are good but there are small shortcomings, there are small highlights in the configuration (HUD and audio) there are also small slot points (sunroof and sound insulation), power and chassis performance is good but not outstanding... The starting price of 250,000 yuan is actually quite accurate and has a certain market competitiveness. The four-wheel drive performance version of about 280,000 and the flagship version of nearly 320,000 are slightly more expensive - the same price I may choose more personalized and distinctive products.
In addition, because the Celis brand itself is relatively weak, it is understandable that it is currently playing the name of Huawei more during publicity. However, I personally feel that in addition to the excellent fluency, Huawei Hongmeng car machine should also add more efforts in UI design, application richness and voice recognition performance, so that it can truly become the biggest "killer" of the AITO brand!