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Test drive Veranda High Performance Edition | live up to the name of performance, save time and money

In 2013, FAW Toyota introduced rav4 to China and became a hit. Seven years later, GAC Toyota saw the sweetness of the RAV4, so it launched The Willanda to make the Lanta family a new member, and got rid of the title of RAV4 sister model, and became the Landa brother model with the Highlander. If the dual-engine version of Velanda has good energy efficiency, then the Velanda High Performance Edition is a combination of energy consumption and power.

Test drive Veranda High Performance Edition | live up to the name of performance, save time and money

The Veranda High Performance Edition has put a lot of effort into the full vehicle radar, increasing to 8 probe parking radar and equipped with reversing images. In addition, central control navigation and voice control have been added, as well as leather + synthetic leather seats with electric adjustment, and the actual driving experience is quite outstanding.

At first glance, the design of the Veranda High Performance Edition jumped out of toyota's traditional design, and it was hard to believe that it was a Toyota car. The Veranda High Performance Edition has a well-defined muscular line and a good sporty atmosphere, which changes the traditional and stable image of Toyota models and is more in line with the aesthetics of today's young consumers.

Test drive Veranda High Performance Edition | live up to the name of performance, save time and money

The overall style of the taillights echoes the headlights, and the three-dimensional light strip design of the C-shaped shape is more layered. Compared with the new generation RAV4, the Taillights of the Velanda High Performance Edition adopt a new horizontal design, embedded in the rear of the car, further reducing the visual center of gravity of the rear.

The very eye-catching point of this Velanda High Performance Edition is that its E-CVT gearbox is very smooth, and the engine works well, the engine will participate in the drive when more power is needed, and the response is also very sensitive, and it almost does not feel frustrated during the driving process, which is very smooth and linear. 2.5L power coupled with the motor and four-wheel drive blessing, nearly 1.9 tons of weight in the starting stage also has a strong sense of push back, but in the initial stage of stepping on the brake pedal, the feeling of energy recovery is more obvious, which is conducive to increasing the cruising range.

Test drive Veranda High Performance Edition | live up to the name of performance, save time and money

This set of e-four-wheel drive system, in the urban road generally act on the starting and overtaking stage, in some continuous corners, this four-wheel drive system will transmit more power to the rear wheels, the front wheels are only responsible for steering, so that there is no bulky feeling of the big car when cornering. With this four-wheel drive system intelligently distributing the power of the front wheel and the rear wheel, it can better cope with more scenarios.

Test drive Veranda High Performance Edition | live up to the name of performance, save time and money

After driving on the high speed for a period of time to turn on adaptive cruise, the Velanda High Performance Edition keeps the lane very sensitive, keeping the car in the middle of the lane, which is better done. After setting the safety distance, the Velanda High Performance Edition began to follow the car according to the speed ahead, and when the vehicle in front of it slowed down, the Velanda High Performance Edition would also slow down on its own, and maintained a certain distance, which was more reassuring. If there is a sharp brake or a plug in the front, the willlanda high-performance version of the full range of standard active braking system will intervene to ensure the safety of the vehicle.

Test drive Veranda High Performance Edition | live up to the name of performance, save time and money

Toyota's safety under the new TNGA architecture is very high, which is not difficult to see from the crash test of Zhongbao Research Institute that the overall configuration is excellent, with 7 airbags as standard, and the safety is one top and one. In the process of experiencing the Veranda High Performance Edition, the PCS pre-collision safety system has played a good safety alert, which can react quickly to passers-by who suddenly break out.

Secondly, the strength of the TNGA architecture is obvious to everyone, and it is true that the Velanda high-performance version has experienced its comfort, but because the engineers have fully pursued comfort and ignored the handling, the overall tuning is too biased towards home.

Test drive Veranda High Performance Edition | live up to the name of performance, save time and money

The space of the Veranda high-performance version of the same level of space is still advantageous, the front row space is enough, the rear space is also good, my height of 1 meter 73 sitting in the back row also has more than a punch distance, the highlight is the trunk 580L space, which is relatively rare in the same level of models.

The Veranda High Performance Edition overtakes at 80 km/h, and the engine is very explosive when working at the same time. But there are advantages and disadvantages, the fly in the ointment is that there will be a little tire noise at high speed, but it is not to an unacceptable extent, and the overall performance of NVH control is still relatively good.

Test drive Veranda High Performance Edition | live up to the name of performance, save time and money

And the Veranda high-performance version is different from the ordinary version of the mild hybrid, plug-in hybrid so that the Willanda high-performance version has the qualification of the new energy license, for some first-tier city users who are limited to the license will be a better choice.

In these few days of experience, even if the battery of the Veranda high-performance version is in a state of power loss, the efficient engine and the extremely low-energy motor still make the 100-kilometer fuel consumption of the Willanda high-performance version as low as about 5L. In this era of soaring oil prices, there is no need to worry about energy consumption and there will be no endurance anxiety and good power performance, and the High Performance Edition of Veranda is the high score given by Toyota.

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