More than a decade ago, the domestic auto market began to blow a feverish SUV wind, more and more consumers began to be enthusiastic about the high vision of SUVs, large space, choose cars to buy cars are to see suVs first, and then look at cars. In recent years, I don't know whether it is the consumer's "change of heart", or the major car companies want to regain the car position of the "turn the tide", the domestic independent car market has gradually caught fire, but also with a strong young sports wind, such as Lynk & Co 03, Geely Xingrui, Trumpchi Shadow Leopard, MG5 Scorpio, as well as the upcoming Changan uni-v, Geely Binrui COOL and so on. As an independent brand, Chery Automobile is naturally not far behind, and plans to release Arrizo's new A+ flagship sedan (codenamed M1E) at the Beijing Auto Show in April this year, and is expected to be officially listed in the third quarter.
Following the discontinuation of the Arrizo 7, what does Chery's new A+ flagship sedan look like after many years? Xiao Mu collected and sorted out some of chery M1E's latest spy photos on the Internet, and then took everyone to take a sneak peek and talk about it.
The new car adopts Chery Automobile's latest design language, which has changed greatly from its previous car model, and the low-lying flat front design and two obvious rib lines on the hood fully demonstrate its sports player identity.
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The front face adopts the same design idea as the upcoming global SUV model OMODA5, the large area of borderless grille is very visually impactful, the middle net upper end follows the Tiggo 8pro's through-channel chrome strip design, rectangular border headlights are embedded in both sides of the split hood, the upper end of the headlights is a six-point segmented LED turn signal, the lower end is a streamlined tearful-eye LED, and the matrix LED headlights are used inside the light cavity. We can also see that the lower end of the central mesh has a trapezoidal grille, which forms an X-shaped front face layout with the two sides of the central mesh, with the front lip movement surrounding, giving the front face of the new car a strong fighting atmosphere.
Coming to the side, what comes into view is the very eye-catching streamlined large slip back shape, the back line falls obviously after the B-pillar, and a slightly raised waist line runs through the entire slender body, which is dynamic and eye-catching! The visual body size surpasses the Arrizo 7, and the wheelbase may be about 2.75m. The new car is suspected to be equipped with at least 18 inches of sports wheels, and the sports encirclement of the door side skirt is also not absent, directly pulling the young sporty sense of the whole vehicle full of explosion! If you don't look at the car logo, do you still recognize that this is chery?】 It is worth mentioning that Chery finally abandoned the iconic swooping waistline of the past on the side of the car, thinking that this "family" design dissuaded many young consumers!
Due to the streamlined back design, the M1E rear shape is short and full, equipped with the most popular through-type taillights, the tail lights use a triangle shape similar to the Audi A3L, the lines are concise and sharp, and the taillights are used on the outside of the transparent lampshade.
A point-off LED light source is visible inside the light cavity, and a slender LED strip is laid out at the top, which is expected to run horizontally through the entire tail light after lighting, further widening the visual effect of the rear. Due to the concave design in the middle of the rear, with the ducktail shape on the upper edge of the trunk, it fully highlights the positioning of the young sports type of the car.
Coming to the car, the M1E interior adopts Chery's current minimalist design, which is highly close to the interior design ideas of OMODA5 and Tiggo 8pro, but there are slight differences in detail. The same is the use of dashboard, central control integrated curved full LCD dual screen design, and with a three-panel multi-functional steering wheel and through-type air conditioning outlet, the central control table cancels the physical button, taking into account the economy and practicality. The new car is equipped with an electronic gear lever close to the driver's side, the physical function buttons are mainly distributed behind the gear lever, the right side of the gear lever is a curtain cup holder, and the central armrest box uses a folio clamshell design. In addition, whether it is the center console or the door panels, the inside of the car is covered with leather as far as the touch, and the use of shades of contrast design is designed to enhance the overall sense of refinement and fashion.
In terms of power, the initial combination of high and low power will be composed of 1.5T+CVT and 1.6T+7DCT to further refine the consumer market. This is also the first time chery has lowered the 1.6T Kunpeng power to a car. For reference, the Tiggo 8 Kunpeng Edition is equipped with the same 1.6TGDI turbo direct injection engine, with a maximum power of 197 horsepower and a peak torque of 290N·m, which is matched by a 7-speed wet dual-clutch transmission, which can achieve thermal efficiency of up to 45%, fuel saving rate of more than 95%, and acceleration time of 0-100 km / h is only 7.5 seconds. Considering the difference in the weight of the sedan, the new M1E zero hundred acceleration equipped with 1.6TGDI is expected to exceed the 6S. In the future, Chery may also launch a variety of models such as 2.0TGDI Sport version and PHEV hybrid version.
Postscript: For Chery, netizens are "love and hate", not only praising the technical research and development capabilities of the "polytechnic man" in the field of engines and other fields, but also angry and complaining about its appearance design that is "unexpected" from time to time. No way, this is an era of looking at faces, wine is also afraid of deep alleys, no matter how good the technology, no matter how good the parameters are, you must be able to let others "see it" first, and then have the opportunity to be "carefully savored". Fortunately, Chery M1E currently gives us a bright appearance design, big slipback, low wind, 1.6T power plus 100,000, do you think Chery Bet on the new A+ flagship sedan will be successful?
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