As a very important category in China's automobile consumption market, pickup trucks have been widely used in Rural China and specific environments, and early domestic diesel pickup trucks are defined as tool cars, which are re-revitalized in mountainous areas, construction sites and other scenarios. The pickup truck that is well known to riders is a full-size pickup truck in North America and is a symbol of American car culture.
A few days ago, overseas statistical agencies released the 2021 U.S. pickup truck sales data, Ford F series, Ram pickup trucks and Chevrolet Solod top three positions, according to statistics, the annual sales of the U.S. pickup truck market in 2021 reached 2842479, compared with the 2934706 in 2020 year-on-year decline of 3.14.
After a brief decline in pickup truck production and sales in China in 2019, pickup truck production and sales will resume growth in 2020 and 2021. In 2021, China's pickup truck production and sales reached 547,000 units and 554,000 units, up 11.2% and 12.9% year-on-year, respectively. With the lifting of pickup trucks in many provinces and cities in China in recent years, as the absolute leader of China's pickup truck market, Great Wall Motors has successively laid out the pickup truck market in recent years.
Tool attributes of the pickup truck has to mention the diesel manual pickup truck, the brand to the Great Wall Fengjun automobile as a representative, the perennial sales champion, the characteristics of this type of pickup truck is not strong enough, low comfort configuration, cab size is small, the size of the cargo box is larger - the definition of the truck. In recent years, the Great Wall has begun to develop passenger pickup trucks, and the Great Wall Cannon is a masterpiece.
On March 22, 2022, Great Wall Motor's King Kong Gun was released and listed. A total of 12 models with configurations were launched, with a price range of 88,880-123,800 yuan, of which the long-box model increased by 2,000 yuan on this basis.
The new car provides firewood / gasoline, two / four wheel drive and a variety of cargo box forms, to meet the needs of users with a variety of car needs, obviously from the positioning point of view, is a IKEA model, thanks to its advantages in configuration and structural design, bringing a good sense of passenger use, driving the overall texture level, closer to the urban SUV level pickup truck model.
In terms of appearance, the King Kong gun adopts a new design language in the appearance design, which is more square than the Great Wall Gun that we are very familiar with, giving people a tough and hardcore feeling, and looking very much like a hardcore SUV from the front of the car.
In terms of the front face, a large area of front grille is surrounded by thick chrome materials for decoration, and the headlights with larger contours are equipped with LED light sources and automatic headlight functions. Body colors are available including Dream Blue, Worry-Free White, Bold Black, Enterprising Gray, and Struggle Brown.
The side of the new car has been embellished with some lines, which are more complex and changeable than the Great Wall Gun, with a length, width and height of 5635/1880/1815 (1840) mm and a wheelbase of 3410 mm. The size of the cargo railing is 1820/1500/495 (470) mm respectively, as a pickup truck, the Diamond Cannon provides two kinds of wheelbase for Chinese consumers to choose from, the length is 3410mm and 3140mm, respectively, and it is equipped with three cargo compartment forms. In terms of tires, the new car uses Chaoyang 245/65 R17 tires.
Body tail, because as a traditional pickup truck, the design style is very simple, there is no special place, the new car also provides a cargo rack, the ladder to assist in getting on and off the car does not appear on the new car, the convenience is slightly less considered, the regular design is more attractive, and the whole level is quite clear.
In terms of interior, it gets rid of the cheap feeling of commercial pickup trucks and adopts a stylish center console design style. With a strong style of the Great Wall SUV, the new car uses a two-color interior, local leather wrapping, added an independent full LCD instrument, 12.3-inch suspension central control touch screen, running speed, UI design are in line with the level of passenger cars, a home SUV has a configuration, it is all matched to you.
Depending on the model configuration, the new car will also provide functions such as intelligent voice, intelligent vehicle control, intelligent service, support for FOTA upgrades, ESP system, 4 airbags, reversing radar, tire pressure monitoring, and panoramic imaging.
In terms of power, as an IKEA pickup truck model, it will naturally be equipped with a more powerful NVH performance powertrain, and the Diamond Gun provides a 2.0T diesel engine and a 2.0T gasoline engine for consumers to choose. Among them, the maximum power of the 2.0T diesel engine is 163 hp and the peak torque is 400 Nm; the maximum power of the 2.0T gasoline engine is 197 hp, and the peak torque is 360 Nm. In terms of transmission system, the new car is matched with a 6-speed manual transmission, and the entire power parameters are consistent with the corresponding models of the Great Wall Gun, but the diesel engine has more advantages in torque.
The editor has something to say:
It is not difficult to see that the new car belongs to the detailed design model of the Great Wall Gun pickup truck, from the official information, it can be seen that the fashion business pickup truck positioning of the King Kong gun, its target consumer group just started a young man, the King Kong gun has a dazzling interior and exterior design, the bottom obviously retains the characteristics of the tool attribute pickup truck, but thanks to the changeable cargo compartment type, wheelbase and rear suspension structure, on this basis, it is also a closer step of optimization, which is also both the Great Wall Gun, another brand new attempt, it is not difficult to see, single static point of view, The new car is still a good helper for ordinary Chinese people to live and work.
As for the dynamic experience of the new car, "The Way to Know the Car" and so on get the new car and then give everyone an experience. After the new car goes on sale, it will compete with Jiangling Motors' Yuhu 7 and Jiangxi's Isuzu Ruimai. (Photo: Source Network; Text: Liu Yu, Editor)