More worth buying than a joint venture medium and large SUV? The reliability of the star path is not the upgrade of technology

"Practice technology in a down-to-earth manner, and honestly build a good car", this is the evaluation given to Chery by many fans.

Indeed, in today's serious inward-looking independent brands, Chery seems to be overstated, and even the presence of high-end brand Xingtu is not too high.

However, if we look at Chery's achievements in the field of technology in the past two years, we find that this enterprise is not simple: in the automotive field, Chery took the lead in developing T1X and M3X architectures that can compete with MQB and TNGA with its own strength, and took the lead in developing domestic engines with thermal efficiency of more than 37%; in other fields, Chery Holdings' shipbuilding plants and aero engine manufacturing plants are also in the leading position in the same industry in China...

Still back to the automotive industry, although Chery has been relatively low-key in recent years, the brand knows very well what it needs and what kind of goals it needs to achieve. Among the model products, we can also see it.

In the spring of 2021, Chery's high-end brand Xingtu released The Medium and Large High-end SUV of Xingtu Lanyue. Obviously, Chery hopes to be on this high-end SUV and is committed to breaking down the barriers of joint venture brands.

So, what is the strength of the star path to the moon?

Striking iron also requires technology to be hard, and the premise for breaking through barriers is technology

Why did Toyota, Honda, and Nissan grow from small Japanese factories decades ago to today's world's largest factories? In fact, the reason is very simple, they all have a group of paranoid and crazy engineers, who can constantly update their own technology for enterprises, and in the 70s and 80s, they took the initiative to go abroad and compete with the old European and American manufacturers.

Today's Chery is facing a much higher difficulty than the former "two fields and one production". The siege of Japanese, Korean, European, American and even independent brands has brought "hellish difficulty".

Take the core power technology, today Chery can create an engine with a thermal efficiency of up to 37%, and tomorrow Toyota, Honda, Great Wall, Geely and other manufacturers will increase the thermal efficiency to 40% in minutes!

And what are Chery's chances of winning? Why is it that among domestic car fans, the star core power 2.0T engine carried by the star path is still regarded as a generation of "divine machines"?

The reason is actually very simple, Chery in the field of engines, not to fight for a certain indicator of comprehensive excellence, but is committed to through a full range of technical upgrades, so that the power becomes more balanced, more in line with the actual needs of the car. Next, we will take the 2.0T power of the StarWay Lanyue as an example to see what Chery's technical thinking is.

What kind of performance does the power of a medium and large SUV need to be performed? Many people may say that higher efficiency is needed to make up for the disadvantage of high fuel consumption of the car, and Chery certainly takes this into account.

To reduce the energy consumption of an engine, engineers will prioritize improving the engine's cycle characteristics. For example, the 2.0T engine of the moon adopts the Miller cycle, under low and medium speed conditions, the intake valve is closed in advance to ensure the intake volume and shorten the intake time while reducing the pump gas loss; under high-speed working conditions, the inlet valve is also closed in advance to reduce the combustion temperature and improve the combustion efficiency.

Of course, a single technology is not the optimal solution to reduce fuel consumption. As a result, Chery has also achieved all-round fuel saving effects by reducing internal friction of the engine and improving the efficiency of the thermal management system through technologies such as DLC. Combined with the DCT380 dual-clutch transmission, the comprehensive fuel consumption of the Starway Lanyue is also reduced to 7.9L/100Km.

In the process of use, lower fuel consumption is often more convincing than high thermal efficiency.

Of course, some people will say that a good flagship SUV needs stronger power performance.

In the past, many American and Japanese cars were willing to improve driving quality by increasing displacement and cylinder count. However, at the moment when energy conservation and emission reduction have become the mainstream, car companies cannot carry out this "simple operation". As a result, greater possibilities can only be expanded within a limited displacement.

As a result, the engine of The Star Road Moon was injected by engineers into the "VVT center", "electronically controlled supercharger" and other technologies. The former, by optimizing the layout to shorten the oil circuit, so that the engine response time increased by 30%, the latter, through the control of the turbocharger, reduce the turbo lag, so that the 100 km/h acceleration can be increased by 5%, overtaking conditions can be increased by 50%. It is under this series of technical optimizations that Xingtu Lanyue has also become a medium and large SUV with zero hundred acceleration of 8 seconds, which has more advantages than the same displacement and class products of GM and Volkswagen.

In fact, taking the power of the star path to the moon as an example, it only witnesses Chery's strength at the technical level on the one hand. In other places, such as the M3X architecture of Xingtu Lanyue, to the ergonomic design of the vehicle and even the intelligent electrical system of the vehicle, Chery has been crystallizing its technology for several years.

In addition to technology, Starway Moon understands the needs of users better

Unlike top scientific and technological products such as spacecraft and launch vehicles, automobiles always need to be market-oriented and user-oriented products. Therefore, even if a brand and a car have made high achievements in science and technology, whether they will sell well or not, whether they can catch fire, it depends on whether the car is a "market-oriented" product.

The main purpose of this manufacturer, whether it is Chery brand or Xingtu brand, is not only to break through overseas technical barriers, but also to benefit consumers with technology, so that everyone can feel the advantages brought by high technology in the actual experience. Because of this, the medium and large SUV of Xingtu Lanyue is not only a high-tech product, it is also a product that integrates the user's thinking into the concept of car manufacturing.

In the past, what kind of expectations or suggestions did we have for the big seven-seat SUVs? As a very simple example, we hope that the third row seats of the large seven-seat SUV can really become practical, rather than dispensable.

In order to solve such pain points, the M3X Mars architecture used by Xingtu Lanyue has excellent expansion capabilities. Based on this platform, Xingtu Lanyue has a length of nearly 5 meters and a wheelbase of 2.9 meters. At the same time, coupled with the engineers' optimization of the body proportions, the three-row space of this large seven-seat SUV has a good comfort performance, and it has truly become a more practical large seven-seat SUV.

Not only that, the engineers of Xingtu Lanyue also had a deep insight into some of the problems encountered by medium and large SUV users in the actual use of the car.

For example, in many large and medium-sized SUVs, the rear exhaust air conditioner outlet is behind the front central handrail box, which is prone to the problem of uneven refrigeration and heating due to large internal space. In order to solve this problem, Xingtu Lanyue designed the rear air outlet at the top or angle, and always output suitable and comfortable cold and warm air for the carriage.

At the same time, many models today, for the so-called sense of science and technology, intelligent, and a large area of cancellation of physical buttons and knobs.

As a practical and comfortable-oriented mid-to-high-end SUV, Xingtu Lanyue must also meet the needs of the times. A more advanced network connection system and a more technological three-screen layout also give a sense of the future.

However, in order to make it easier for drivers and passengers to operate air conditioning and other equipment, engineers would rather spend more thought and more materials to design a set of interactive equipment that combines "virtual entities", which not only enhances the sense of technology in the carriage, but also meets the needs of easy operation.

Where we can see, the stars and the moon are very careful. In the invisible places, the same is true of the starry moon. For example, its safety performance is not even inferior to that of a Nordic luxury brand.

After the listing of Xingtu Lanyue, Chery Automobile took the initiative to conduct a crash test of 128km/h relative speed of two vehicles, in this test that simulated the actual collision accident, Xingtu Lanyue with a safety body containing 78% high-strength steel, withstood the collision, and the living space in the car was intact...

What is obvious is that although The Star Road Moon is not a particularly stunning high-end SUV that makes people shout special when they first meet. However, under the guidance of engineers' thinking, this car strives to be perfect in every detail, and is committed to truly creating a medium-sized SUV that is better to drive and use for users.

19.39-23.39 million, what reason is there not to choose the stars and the moon?

In fact, seeing here, is the product strength of Xingtu Lanyue strong or not? I believe that we do not need to discuss too much. I would like to ask, from domestic independent manufacturers to overseas joint venture manufacturers, how many car companies can fight so hard for the user experience? Probably not much.

Then the question also comes, according to the price of 19.39-233,900, is it worth buying?

If you put aside the brand factor, in the mainstream joint venture brands, this price point can generally buy compact SUVs, or bite the teeth on a medium-sized SUV.

The Starway Moon is a medium-sized SUV that makes the sense of premium and practicality more outstanding. Whether it is value for money or a sense of value, it is full.

In fact, the goal of this car can be said to be a head-on confrontation with the joint venture brand, and Chery hopes to use its solid technical advantages to prove that its independent high-end brand is not worse than overseas brands.

But helplessly, the joint venture brands have also put down their bodies and participated in the price war. After all, the accumulation of joint venture brands is objectively deeper. Because of this, they dare to reduce the price to compete for market share, and seize the psychology of users who love joint ventures more, even if it is "model downgrading", they must choose a joint venture brand.

And such a model as Xingtu Lanyue, from the cost of research and development to the cost of manufacturing, it is all spent in real money and silver, and its current price has been regarded as extremely sincere. In fact, for our ordinary users, when choosing a car, it is not necessary to only look at the brand and not look at the experience. Sometimes, giving independent brands like Xingtu more opportunities may have unexpected surprises in the future.

epilogue

Entering today's era, we find that today's market atmosphere seems to be a bit impetuous. Many manufacturers are scrambling to play with concepts, play with quantities, and tell stories. It seems that only a small number of manufacturers such as Chery can calm down to deepen the technology and dig deep into user needs. As the current flagship SUV of Xingtu, Xingtu Lanyue is such a high-end SUV that is "quietly precipitated". I believe that if Xingtu persists, Xingtu will become wider and wider in the future if xingtu catches the moon and even the entire brand of xingtu.