Some time ago, Daodao has a relative who is doing business wants to add a leather durable, cost-effective pickup truck to the factory, I told him to wait, because the Great Wall Diamond Gun was listed on March 22, the official guidance price is 8.88-12.58 million yuan, gasoline and diesel versions have six models to choose from, we test drive this time is the Diamond Gun 2.0T diesel version of the pilot long box, today to help you see if it is a good partner for entrepreneurship.
But this time we will come to a little different, first open it up to see if it is smooth or not. In fact, I have driven a lot of pickup trucks before, including the Great Wall Wind Jun, the Great Wall Cannon, the Isuzu D-MAX, and the Chase T70.
Pickup trucks have a commonality - driving flat and stable, blurred steering, long clutch stroke, and small delays in throttle response, which are specially designed for more stable delivery. This is no exception, but I think its steering wheel size and steering feel is still quite good, feeling slightly better than the Chase T70.
The second point is that most pickup trucks in addition to the clutch stroke is relatively long, the manual gear stroke is also very long, the King Kong gun is good is that the gear is not jerky, especially the first and second gears, and the third to fifth gears also have a clear sense of inhalation, there is no difficulty in operation, you can drive it very leisurely.
The third point to talk about the driving vision, there are some pickups windshield area is relatively small, A-pillar position of the blind area is more. The Diamond Cannon obviously noticed this, the windshield area is relatively large, the view is very good, the tilt angle of the A-pillar is just right, and it will not feel too tired when driving it.
Let's talk about motivation. In fact, in terms of power configuration, the 90,000 yuan starting Kong gun is not worse than any 150,000 yuan pickup truck, it has gasoline and diesel two versions to choose from, we test drive today the diesel version of the model in the high-pressure common rail and other technologies under the blessing of 120 kilowatts of maximum power, 400 Nm peak torque, this power is enough to meet the loading needs.
Due to the advantages of low torque of diesel vehicles, only a little throttle is needed to lightly click the throttle in the empty car state, and it is easy to start; if it is fully loaded, I believe that this 400 Nm can also easily drive the vehicle. In short, in terms of power, it is open and leveraged.
In terms of chassis suspension, it feels that the Diamond Gun is also based on standard pickup tuning, because its rear suspension adopts the plate spring integral bridge design, the purpose is to load more goods, so the chassis is still quite tough when empty.
At full load, because the pressure is relatively heavy, the suspension is in a balanced state at that time, and the comfort is better.
In addition, I noticed that the noise control of the King Kong gun is doing a good job, the reason may lie in two points, on the one hand, the GW4D20M diesel engine developed by the Great Wall itself has less noise than other diesel engines, and secondly, the sound insulation ability of the cabin of the King Kong Gun is also good, and what I can feel is the idle speed and driving, close to the noise control level of the gasoline car.
When we open the King Kong cannon on the street, there is even some return rate, the car paint color of this pickup truck is very bright blue, the paint color is also better than the same kind of pickup truck, so the first impression of the King Kong cannon to me, not like the pickup truck starting from 90,000 yuan, you see it This front end is quite advanced, with the visual sense of the American big pickup truck, and even a bit of the style of the bird of prey.
Face kung fu is enough, other aspects of the crotch, not necessarily.
At first glance, there is no special design on the side of the King Kong gun, but compared to other pickup trucks of about 100,000 yuan on the market, it still has some more line shapes, not as dull as those flat and neat sides look, at least with some novelty.
The tail we focus on is not its design, because most of the pickup design is like this, a large cargo bucket, the taillights are also simple and unpretentious, and the cover plate can be seen when the cargo bucket is lowered. The cargo bucket length, width and height of the King Kong gun are 1820/1500/495mm, which is longer than the cargo bucket of the Chase T70, which sells better in the same class, and the loading capacity should be better.
In addition, the bulge of the tire part in the cargo bucket is not high, which is also the result of optimization.
Many previous pickup trucks did not pay attention to interior design at all, and "put together" with the simplest design, the most common materials and workmanship, because at that time, manufacturers felt that the look and feel and atmosphere of the interior of the tool car were not important. But now it's different, who doesn't have a passenger car, who drives a pickup truck to work and drives a private car after work, this visual difference can't be too big, right?
Obviously, the interior of the Diamond Gun is more acceptable, and it can also be seen that it is basically built in accordance with some standards of the SUV, compared with the Great Wall's own early pickup truck Fengjun, and then look at the Chase T70, Jiangling Lingtuo, including Changan Kaicheng F70, and Zhengzhou Nissan's Ruiqi 6, these four are more expensive pickup trucks than the Diamond Gun, and the Diamond Gun can have an interior level close to them, which may be a cost-effective embodiment.
However, this car is after all 90,000 yuan to 120,000 yuan range, compared to the 120,000-150,000 pickup trucks just mentioned, the biggest difference in the interior is the seat - the leather seats of the above cars are put into the car, and the overall texture of the interior is improved. Of course, the cost of the King Kong cannon can not be given to the leather seat can also be understood, in the small shop outside to pack a set of leather seats is actually very convenient, two or three thousand pieces to get it is very OK.
In addition, the design of the back row of the King Kong Cannon and the 150,000 yuan-level pickup truck are also similar, and there are no flowers to turn over. The seat back is upright, which is also the problem of all similar pickups, the seat can only be designed just right, normal sitting is not too much of a problem, but the comfort is indeed more general.
In fact, the second row of pickup trucks is usually used temporarily, so the ergonomic feeling here is not important. In the dynamic test drive just now, our photographer sitting in the back row can still obviously feel more upside down, the reason is that the rear suspension leaf spring overall bridge design, and the adjustment is also hard, plus the tire gas is more sufficient, some bumps and bounces are inevitable.
Anyway, I think it is still normal, after all, it is difficult for a tool car to be as comprehensive as a passenger car, and it pays more attention to how much it can be installed and whether it can reach the destination normally.
Driver's Summary
In my opinion, the focus of pickup trucks is: insufficient loading, good or bad driving, and high cost performance. According to the reputation of the Great Wall pickup truck, the advanced product of the King Kong cannon will also inherit the advantages of the previous, and it has also done a comprehensive refinement in many aspects, it should be said that it has exceeded the average level of the pickup truck in the price range of 100,000 yuan, and it is not easy for us to do business in recent years, we need a cost-effective, leather-resistant tool car, and it is the best choice in the past two years.
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