In recent years, the progress of domestic cars cannot be denied by anyone.
At the level of 100,000 yuan, domestic cars are becoming more and more exquisite. In terms of appearance, directly hiring foreign top teams or main designers to operate, the aura is ridiculously strong; in terms of configuration, it is even more willing to pile up materials, benchmarking more than 300,000 joint venture cars, and even luxury brands, which are not afraid at all. In terms of power, it is also more and more willing to invest in research and development funds, and from various publicity, it can be seen that even family cars are emphasizing power.
If you are willing to invest, there will be progress. But the above investment is not a long-term solution in my opinion. On the contrary, it made me see that car companies were forced by the market to enter a direction of quick success and short-term profit. Car companies are investing more and more material and financial resources in places where consumers can see, such as horsepower parameters, configuration, and design, because these places are the easiest to see results in the short term. In terms of invisible body and chassis, the investment is large, the effect is slow, and consumers are likely to not buy it because of prejudice.
At present, it is indeed easy to win the market in the way of stacking cost performance, but this way is not conducive to the domestic car brand upwards, because the method of stacking materials can be copied by anyone, there is no core technology, and it will be abandoned by the market at any time.
Car companies, in terms of car manufacturing, must have the persistence of core technology.
Today I plan to talk about a domestic car, a domestic B-class sedan that has always insisted on "safety and quality" - Besturn B70.
The only B-class family car of its own brand that has won two C-NCAP five-star safety certifications
On March 1, the China Automotive Technology and Research Center announced the evaluation results of the latest batch of C-NCAP models in 2022. The new third-generation Pentium B70 has been awarded the C-NCAP Five-Star Safety Certification with a combined score rate of 90.3% in its class.
I am not at all surprised by this result. Looking back at the history of the Pentium B70, this is not a professional recognition of the Pentium B70 in the field of security.
Born in 2006, the first generation of Pentium B70 carried out the country's first live flip experiment and ultimate static pressure test in Changchun, and at the same time cooperated with a series of very demanding safety experience activities such as side column collision, laboratory rollover, 120KM live car rollover, etc., which directly refreshed the consumer market's safety cognition of domestic cars at that time.
The second-generation Pentium B70 has been awarded the 2014 C-NCAP star safety evaluation with the advanced Bosch 9th generation ESP system and 3H structure body.
The new third-generation Pentium B70 inherits the hard-core strength of the Pentium B70 family of "safety-oriented, quality first", and with the technical support under the FMA architecture, integrates 18 safety equipment and 23 active safety technologies, and once again won the C-NCAP five-star safety certification, which is also the only B-class family car with two C-NCAP five-star safety certifications for its own brands.
Why does the new third-generation Pentium B70 become the "safety leader of China's independent car"?
The new third-generation Pentium B70 has achieved better results than its peers under the tests of complete frontal collision test, frontal 40% bias collision test, side collision test, whipping test and so on.
The fundamental reason lies in three factors.
1. Body structure
The new third-generation Besturn B70 adopts a "double E" ring body, the proportion of high-strength steel in the vehicle is as high as 76%, the proportion of superhard body structure thermoformed steel is as high as 22%, and the ultra-high yield material strength is greater than 1500Mpa, which is more than double the 700Mpa high-strength steel standard defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers of China.
After the collision between pedestrians and vehicles, the impact force is transmitted to the entire body through the front/rear longitudinal beam, sill beam, middle channel longitudinal beam, beam, etc., which can effectively reduce the direct impact on the occupant compartment and ensure the safety of pedestrians.
2. Active security configuration
With a "hardcore" body, the new third-generation Pentium B70 also chooses to repair deep "internal power", equipped with up to 14 ADAS functions, including lane departure warning system (LDW), adaptive cruise (ACC), front collision warning (FCW), automatic emergency braking (AEB), intelligent high beam control (IHC), intelligent speed limit reminder (ISA), integrated cruise assist (ICA) and other functions, arming the "technology" to the teeth.
3. Humanized protection
In the past few years, domestic cars have been unambiguous about the materials used, the joint venture brand uses imported materials, and domestic cars are also used, but the same materials are broken in the domestic cars for a few years, and the joint venture cars do not have such problems. This is not a matter of materials, but of the design of domestic cars.
Domestic cars start to take the reverse R & D route, for some designs there is no positive R & D experience, resulting in unreasonable design, the loss of parts is abnormally high.
Parts damage can be replaced, but the safety design does not tolerate design defects, the new third generation of Pentium B70, in terms of safety has been optimized a lot of design, such as optimizing the engine cover and sink cover structure, reducing the chance of pedestrian head injury; engine cover hinge design can be pressure-fed structure, reduce the probability of pedestrian head injury; optimize the front bumper structure and calf collision buffer block to reduce leg injury.
Write at the end:
The new third-generation Besturn B70 has always adhered to the product concept of "safety-oriented, quality first", and from its "unchanged", it can be seen that FAW Group adheres to the core technology; from its "change" of continuous innovation and keeping pace with the times, it can be seen that FAW Group thinks about the market.
Don't forget your original intention, you have to be consistent.