Author —— Kaga User: Cream Flower Roll Jun
In the past few years, the market environment of cars with a price of 100,000 yuan to 150,000 yuan has undergone tremendous changes, and independent brands have gradually begun to lay out more car products at this level of the market, and the market share that originally belonged to joint venture brands is also constantly being eroded and divided. As more and more young people begin to become one of the main consumer groups in this price market, so the popularity of the main "young, sporty" products is naturally rising, not only the sales of Lynk & Co 03 with good product strength are hot, but even MG6, Shadow Leopard and other models with their watches rely on sporty appearance, "valve exhaust" This keyboard value is extremely high configuration, and overwhelming publicity and brainwashing have achieved very considerable sales, and in some areas they can actually increase sales. The latest product of Changan UNI series, UNI-V, also precisely targets this market, using almost the same strategy as GAC and SAIC, relying on a highly sporty appearance, the characteristic configuration of "electric tail", and high-intensity, high-density marketing propaganda to enter the battlefield. I rushed to the test drive on the first day of the test drive to see if the UNI-V product itself was blown away like a shadow leopard, but in fact it was empty.
【Speaking in front】The model of this test driving experience is the UNI-V 1.5T smart pilot model, that is, the top model of the whole series, equipped with a horse brand MC6 tire with a specification of 235/45/R18, due to the different rim and tire specifications of the sports model, the dynamic experience part in this article cannot be directly brought to the sports version of the model.
[Design] Like UNI-T, the rendering of UNI-V successfully attracted me as soon as it was released, and I felt that although the design was very beautiful, it felt that it was slightly bloated as a car. After a few months, when I saw the real car this time, this feeling was no longer there. From my personal aesthetic point of view, I think the exterior design of UNI-V is very good, the blackened large size rim, electric tail wing, tail diffuser, thick exhaust port and other details have created a strong sense of movement, the lines of the whole car are also very coordinated, smooth, and retain the UNI series of very characteristic design language, highly recognizable, absolutely able to attract the attention of most young people.
The exterior design of Changan UNI-V
【Interior design】 It can be seen at a glance that the interior design language of UNI-V basically follows its own medium-sized SUV product UNI-K, adjusting the design lines more sharply on the basis of UNI-K, and using a more sporty and younger color scheme, and the addition of physical buttons under the central control screen also makes the entire interior more layered. In short, the overall design style of UNI-V's interior is very uniform, making people look very comfortable, much stronger than the ultimate stitched interior of Shadow Leopard and MG6.
Interior design of Changan UNI-V
[Static experience] Into the driver's seat, UNI-V gives people the first feeling that the interior materials, texture and workmanship are much stronger than the UNI-T I have tested before, although there is still a gap with the perverted high-end interior of Geely Xingrui, but it is already a relatively excellent performance in the same level of products. The front man-machine model has some flaws but no hard wounds, first of all, the adjustment range of the seat and steering wheel is large enough to meet my relatively low back comfortable driving sitting posture, the steering wheel itself is smaller in size, the disc is thick enough and the material of the punched skin is very comfortable, and the grip is good.
The steering wheel of Changan UNI-V
Next, the problem, first of all, because the rearview mirror adjustment button is on the left side of the dashboard instead of the main driver's door panel, and it is slightly far from the driver's seat, so in the lower back sitting position, I must get up to adjust the rearview mirror by a certain margin, and the adjustment process also has to lean back to the back of the chair to view, which is a bit laborious. There are no limit devices in the two cup holders in the central control area, and clear criticism is clear, I think there is no need to save this part of the cost, even if the use of airbag-type limit device is better than no at all. In addition, the performance of the front row head space is not very good, and drivers with a height of more than 1.8 meters should feel a strong sense of oppression.
Changan UNI-V front row cup holder (without any limit device)
The driver's seat itself can give a mid-score, and a simple summary is a seat that will not make most people feel uncomfortable, but will not make most people feel comfortable. There is no problem with the shape of the seat, the length and width of the seat cushion performance are not bad, the backrest is relatively wide, the support for the waist, back, and shoulders is relatively in place, and the lateral support performance is also qualified, but the seat as a whole is relatively thin, and there is no differentiated filling according to the ergonomic division of some areas, so even if the shape is reasonable, it is not comfortable, in addition, the seat configuration of the UNI-V series is relatively low, even the most top-of-the-line driver's seat only supports six-way adjustment, Without the adjustment options of waist support and cushion inclination, it does not fit the different curves of the human body perfectly, and the front of the thigh will be slightly suspended in my more comfortable driving posture, which is also a pity.
Changan UNI-V front seats
Fixing the front seats to the rear after my comfortable driving position, the legroom performance is not bad, although it is not as spacious as the MG6, but it is not cramped. The performance of the head space gave a bad review, after wearing shoes, I was only 173cm tall, and when I rode in the back of UNI-V, the hair on the back of my head had already rubbed to the ceiling, and it was difficult for passengers over 180cm tall to ride comfortably in the back seat. The rear seat itself gives a middle evaluation, the backrest angle is relatively slow, and the shape of the backrest and headrest is also more reasonable, although the performance of the length of the cushion is also good, but because the basic position of the cushion is still relatively low, the knee point and hip point are not high, so the front half of the cushion cannot effectively support the front part of my thigh, and there is also the same problem as the front seat in terms of material filling, the overall is relatively thin, and the sense of wrapping is not strong enough.
Rear row of Changan UNI-V
Like the MG6, the UNI-V is also a hatchback model, with a very large trunk opening, easy to get and place items, the depth and vertical height of the entire trunk are quite good, the horizontal width is slightly worse, the overall can give praise, with a relatively strong loading capacity.
Trunk of Changan UNI-V
【Powertrain/brake foot feeling】Changan UNI-V equipped with its own Blue Whale NT1.5T and 7-speed wet dual-clutch transmission, the nominal power is 188Ps, the actual experience of absolute power is still relatively strong, but the body feeling is still slightly weaker than the nominal power level, mainly because the power output characteristics of this car are somewhat similar to the previous generation of Ford 1.5T models, tending to release more power in the initial stage, feeling that the accelerator pedal is stepped on 60% At that time, more than 80% of the power has been output, but there is no room to release when you step on it, so the rear acceleration will be relatively weak, but the proportion between the entire output process and the depth of the accelerator pedal pedal is still good. In terms of smoothness, it can give an overall praise, although the dual-clutch transmission equipped with UNI-V can still feel the shift action when changing gears in low gears, but it will not cause a worrying negative impact on the smoothness when driving on the flat road, and in the uphill conditions, because the clutch joint is more difficult, this feeling will be relatively more obvious. When simulating starting or creeping conditions, there is no uncomfortable rushing, dragging and frustration, and the start is very crisp and clean, but some negative effects on the smoothness of the torque change caused by the turbine pressure can still be felt during acceleration. The power response level can still be praised at this level, whether it is a large or small power request, UNI-V can perform very quickly, even if a foot of floor oil is suddenly given during the driving, the power can be released after a fairly short delay (about a second), but it may be for the sake of smoothness, UNI-V's gear shift itself is not fast. In short, although the powertrain performance of this car cannot be said to be very delicate and perfect, it can definitely be said to be very good at the same level, if the level of shadow leopard is negative 100 points, UNI-V I can give 90 points.
The brake foot feels good, the output of braking force changes with the pedal depth is quite linear, and there is no empty travel in the front section, but the pedal feedback will be somewhat enhanced with the depth of the pedal, requiring a short adaptation process.
[Steering feel / daily control] steering feel can give an overall 80 points, logic is basically no problem, the return positive torque with the steering angle and with the speed gain are more obvious, linear, but because the matching damping is still small, so the faster case will still feel that the steering center and stability is not strong enough, will be more panicked, not delicate enough, there is no sense of advanced. If this performance can be on par with its own UNI-K, it will be close to perfect.
Daily handling performance gives a clear praise, but also the most surprising part of this car, the steering direction is extremely accurate, the body follows very well, after giving the steering command, the front of the car response speed is extremely fast, followed by the shift of the center of the vehicle is also unambiguous. The convergence performance of the body posture is also very good, although the roll amplitude is slightly larger than the average sports car, but there is no excess swing and shaking, extremely crisp, in one go, it is definitely a relatively top performance in the same level, and the other models I have experienced at the same price should only be the Elantra.
[NVH / chassis vibration] NVH, to give UNI-V an absolutely bad review, driving quality is extremely poor, and the cause of all this, it is this car to be outrageous and the sound is not very good engine noise, the noise of this car engine is almost undisguised with the vibration of the pedal into the car, even in the low-speed daily urban driving conditions, noisy I will not mind this car on the wind noise, tire noise, and the external environment sound isolation performance.
The vibration filter performance can only give the middle evaluation, although the posture inhibition performance of the body when crossing the hurdle is very good, there is no excess swing, but the suspension action is not crisp enough, the front and rear axles have more obvious continuous flutter, the filtration processing of the vibration is not very in place, the whole has no sense of isolation and high-grade sense, in addition, the common high speed reduction belt conditions are not covered due to the test drive route and the site park, so I dare not guarantee how UNI-V performs under this condition.
【Configuration analysis】From the perspective of product sequence, the configuration level distribution of UNI-V has both highlights and hard injuries, the highlight is that the sport version of the standard sports suite is not the top model, and the lowest and lower models also provide optional packages for sports kits, which can well meet the needs of the main sales model for sports appearance. But at the same time, it is more uncomfortable that the top model can not choose the sports kit, that is to say, consumers must make a choice between the comfort configuration such as the rear exhaust air outlet, seat ventilation and heating and the handsome sports kit, I personally guess that it is because there are compatibility problems in the configuration of the motion surround and millimeter wave radar, that is to say, when designing this sports kit, the manufacturer did not provide installation space for radar and other devices.
【Summary】After the actual experience, the performance of UNI-V still gave me a great surprise, the choice and positioning of this car in the product force is extremely accurate, from the appearance design, characteristic configuration, to the excellent performance of the powertrain and daily control, are lined with the name of "sports", the end of the shadow leopard. Although the practicality of space and the quality of driving are the obvious shortcomings of this car, the main consumer group of this price point sports model has a relatively low priority for these two aspects of demand, and it is estimated that it will not have a particularly direct negative impact on the willingness to buy, and I believe that there should be a high street visibility in a short period of time. But I have to admit that UNI-V is also an extremely partial product, in the 1.5T Lynk & Co 03 is not expensive thousands of pieces, the texture of the whole vehicle is much better in the face of products, for those who are not very extreme pursuit of sports consumers, UNI-V may not be a suitable choice.