Who are the mid-level SUVs with high attention recently? The upcoming Jiangling Ford Lingrui must be named. This medium-sized SUV is positioned as a wide-body high-energy pioneer SUV, using Ford's latest potential energy aesthetic design, focusing on the popular wide-body body, with an ultra-long wheelbase and cross-level car width, it is said that the appearance alone can leave the same level of Volkswagen Tanyue, Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4 Rongfang behind. Is Lingrui's appearance really so capable of playing? Although the new car has not yet been officially launched, I heard that the Lingrui exhibition car has arrived at the store, so let's take a look at it and take a sneak peek.
(Jiangling Ford Lingrui real shot)
As the third member of the Jiangling Ford "collar" family, and also a blockbuster model in 2022, Lingrui adopts Ford's latest "potential energy aesthetics" design language, and the overall look is calm and refined. It is said that buying a car to see the face first, lingrui's front face uses a penetrating grille, 3D structure scale design with silver chrome trim, in the sun like a dragon scale armor domineering. Logo type split LED headlight group, the upper LED day running light / turn signal is connected to the through-type chrome trim, and the lower LED headlight is integrated with blackening elements, the shape is sharp, very cool.
It is worth mentioning that the whole series of Lingrui is equipped with LED headlights as standard, which is not only good-looking, but also easy to use. The headlights integrate far and near light and fog lights, a total of 15 LED light sources, low beam illumination distance can reach 105 meters, high beam illumination distance can reach 217 meters. For users, whether it is the lighting experience or the safety of driving at night, it is remarkable.
Personality and domineering are the intuitive feelings given to us by the front face of Lingrui. Due to the wide body design, the body width of lingrui has reached 1935mm. The widest body of the same class (Tanyue 1841mm, CR-V and RAV4 Rongfang 1855mm) combined with the slightly downward pressure of the front, so that Lingrui presents a wide-body low-lying, ready posture that performance cars have, conveying a strong sense of youth and sport. In contrast, Tanyue's volkswagen matryoshka face is really illegible, while CR-V and RAV4 Rongfang, which take the "Japanese style" route, seem a bit childish.
The body size of Lingrui is 4630*1935*1707mm, which is one size larger than CR-V (4621*1855*1689mm), RAV4 Rongfang (4600*1855*1680mm), and Tanyue (4589*1860*1660mm). In addition to the widest body in its class, it also has an ultra-long wheelbase of 2726mm, which is slender from the side, coordinated proportions, full shape and smooth lines. In particular, the large-area concave shape at the door, combined with the rounded and full wheel arch, not only creates a flowing light and shadow effect, but also enhances the muscle sense and strength of the whole vehicle. The innovative folding waistline design not only makes the body look more compact and sporty, but also has the practical value of reducing the drag coefficient. From such a detail, we can see Lingrui's thinking and ingenuity in design.
In terms of wheel hubs, Lingrui adopts the mainstream five-frame design. According to official information, the entry-level model is equipped with 235/55 R18 specification tires, and the medium and high-end models are Goodyear 235/50 R19 specification tires, which are very quiet, drainage and wear resistance.
Coming to the rear of the vehicle, also thanks to the wide-body design, the rear of lingrui looks more stable and secure than the same class of vehicles such as Tanyue, CR-V, RAV4 Rongfang and so on. It is precisely because the body is already wide enough that Lingrui does not need to use the through-body design to present the visual stretching effect like CR-V and RAV4 Rongfang, but uses the concave and convex line surface to increase the layering of the rear, further strengthening the sense of youth and sportiness.
Lingrui's taillight design is also quite a highlight. The "L" type flowing water turn signals and headlights group echo each other in shape, using three independent LED light source three-column taillights, which is not only a tribute to the classic Ford sports car style triple lights, but also the use of the latest lighting technology, both design sense and functionality. This kind of innovation and breakthrough based on inheritance not only improves the recognition of vehicles, but also makes Lingrui's design have a deeper foundation and connotation.
Summarizing this visit to the store, although I only looked at the appearance of Lingrui, I could clearly feel: this is a Ford, but not the Ford in our impression; this is a mid-level SUV, but not the intermediate SUV in our cognition. More young, more personality, more athletic, Lingrui's high appearance is indeed heartwarming, proving that the intermediate SUV is not an uncle car, but also can understand young people very well. At present, the pre-sale price of Lingrui is 158,800 yuan, which is still very competitive with cr-V, RAV4 Rongfang, Tanyue and other opponents of the same level. If there are surprises in the final price and user benefits of the new car on the market, I believe it will have a lot of appeal to young people.