Hongqi H5 has been listed since 2017, and it has been 5 years now, according to the law of "3 years a change, 5 years a generation", it has reached the time of vertical replacement. No matter how good a model, after watching 5 years, it is inevitable that it will be boring, through the replacement to enhance the freshness of consumers has become very important, with the hongqi H9 successful case in the front, the new hongqi H5 will not learn the design inspiration of the hongqi H9 after the replacement? I think everyone must be very interested in this, right? The current Hongqi H5 is priced at 14.58-19.08 million yuan, which is lower than the price of the same level of the joint venture brand, which shows that hongqi, as a domestic luxury brand, still has to win with cost performance, the price is set high, no one buys, the price is set low and sorry for the "identity" of its luxury brand, the dilemma.
A few days ago, the Internet exposed the new Hongqi H5 light pseudo road test spy photo, its front face design is basically the same as the Red Flag H9, only look at the front face, it is difficult to figure out the difference between the two. The new car creates an atmospheric and stylish visual effect through the straight waterfall type middle net, surrounded by a thick U-shaped LED daytime running light, and the air intake positions on both sides are hollowed out, which looks angular and ribbed, very three-dimensional. The spade-shaped front lip protrudes outward, enhancing the athletic atmosphere of the front face. In addition, the red flag LOGO on the middle of the middle of the network and the front hood is also camouflaged, in fact, this thing does not need to be camouflaged at all, and everyone knows that it is exactly the same as the red flag H9.
From the side of the car, it reminds me of the camouflage road test photos of the Hongqi H6, because the overall silhouette of the two is too similar, and it is not excluded that this new car is the Hongqi H6. The new car raises the visual height of the side of the car through a straight waistline, the wheel rim adopts a complex multi-spoke design, and the transition of the roof line from the C-pillar to the rear is smooth, with a sense of déjà vu of a coupe. It is reported that the length, width and height of the new car are 5050 * 1915 * 1570mm, the wheelbase is 2920mm, as a B-class car, such a body size is considered to be "leapfrog", even larger than the luxury C-class car such as Lexus ES, I think this should be the "dimensionality reduction blow" of the red flag, through the positioning of B+ to enhance competitiveness.
The rear part of the tail, through the taillights are now very popular, but the new car through the taillights on both sides of the Y-shaped design to enhance the recognition is still very personal, the lower left part of the taillight has the "China FAW" logo, the lower right part has the "H5" logo, the identity of the car is named, but it may also be deliberately confusing the public, just now I said, do not rule out the new car is "Hongqi H6" Possibility, its body size is very large, may also be between the Hongqi H5 and Hongqi H9 between a new model. In addition, a total of two exhaust pipes on both sides plus chrome trim strips enhance the sportiness of the rear. In terms of power, the current Hongqi H5 provides a power combination of 1.5T turbo engine + 7-speed dry dual-clutch transmission and 1.8T turbocharged engine + 6AT transmission, while the power system of the new car has not yet been announced, it is possible to continue to follow the current model, it is possible to use a new powertrain, everything is still unknown, here is not much speculation.
In terms of interior, Hongqi still closely follows the design ideas of Mercedes-Benz, if the interior design of Hongqi H9 is like Mercedes-Benz E-class, then the interior design of Hongqi H5 is like Mercedes-Benz C-class, the most obvious place is the large size of the central control vertical screen. It can also be seen that there are no obvious physical buttons on the entire center console of the new car, all functions are integrated on the big screen, and the entire interior design is both simple and technological, which is different from the previous Hongqi car. Overall, in addition to the front part of the new car and the netizens said and the red flag H9 is the same, the remaining parts of the originality are very high, the shape is very bright, the interior is very technological, or quite interesting.