Roewe's new SUV, Whale, is currently in pre-sale, and the show car is gradually arriving in the showrooms of dealers around the world. Whale is the first product of SAIC Roewe's new series, officially called it "Bionic Intelligent Driving Life Form". So what about this car? Follow my lens to find out.
True to its name, the whale adopts a bionic design, and the front face looks like a whale. The headlights adopt a split design, and the through-type LED strip is equipped with a forked style, which is very personal. The headlights are designed on both sides of the bumper and look deep when not lit, like an impenetrable deep sea.
The bezel-less grille is arguably the most special design of the front face, consisting of 30 ridges, which looks particularly like the folds of the jaw of a blue whale, and in addition to looking personal, it is also an intake grille with a practical effect, and the engine intake and cooling wind are all entered through here.
Looking from the side, you can see that the whale adopts a large slipback design, it adopts a two-color body, and the upper edge of the window and the lower side skirt are equipped with golden decorative strips, which is officially called "golden coastline", and it forms a connection with the sea.
It is equipped with three cameras on each side of the body, which in addition to supporting the traditional 360° panoramic camera system, it also plays a good role in driving assistance.
The new car is equipped with 19-inch two-tone wheels, the shape is also relatively stylish, the size is 235/45 R19, the tire is Michelin Haorui 4, this tire is mainly quiet and comfortable. In addition, the brake calipers of the new car are also dyed red, which is more pleasing to young people.
The large tail is equipped with a segmented spoiler, which looks like the tail fin of a whale, and has integrated high brake lights. Below, there is also a small black spoiler, which forms a double-layer effect with the taillights.
Above the split tail light group is a penetrating LED strip, and on the lower two sides is an X-shaped shape, which is very recognizable.
The new car is equipped with an electric tailgate, and the opening button of the tailgate is cleverly designed in the middle of the O letter of the tail LOGO "ROEWE". Not saying anything is completely invisible that there is a key hidden here.
The bottom is decorated with piano black material, with bilateral square exhaust pipes, which looks quite advanced.
Whale's interior design is very simple, with a Roselle smart cockpit, and in front of it is a double 12.3-inch simulcast. The new car is equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 chip, which is quite smooth to operate. In addition to the conventional intelligent entertainment functions, the system also supports wake-free continuous interaction, mobile phone remote car control, smart car home interconnection, and OTA remote upgrade.
Almost all the buttons in the car are touch-type, but there will be vibration feedback when touching, of course, the buttons on the steering wheel can be pressed directly, which is very similar to the traditional buttons.
We can see that the car also uses a lot of bionic designs, such as color matching, and the upper part adopts the dark blue design of the sea. The gears look like whales' tail fins, and the spokes in the middle of the steering wheel are also integrated with the folds of the blue whale's jaws.
Both the Killer Whale Edition and the Blue Whale Edition have a BOSE sound with a total of 9 speakers, while the low-end Beluga Version has a non-BOSE sound but also has 8 speakers. In addition, the new car is equipped with 256 colors of interior mood lights.
The front seats are one-piece seats and are equipped with 6-way electric adjustment for the main driver and 4-way electric adjustment for the co-pilot, and the upper part of the seat is also colored in blue, and the whale logo is also printed on the position of the headrest. The perforated leather is soft to the touch and is more comfortable to sit on.
The rear seats are not one-piece design, with three split headrests and wide and soft cushions. Although the middle platform is a little raised, it does not affect the riding of intermediate passengers, and the rear is also equipped with a DOW door opening warning function.
The opening of the tail box is very large, the internal laying is relatively flat, it is more convenient to put some large items, and it can also carry some long strips of large items after the rear seat is down, and the practicality is also good.
In terms of power, the Whale series is equipped with a 2.0T in-cylinder mid-direct injection turbocharged engine, with a maximum horsepower of 231 hp (170 kW), a maximum torque of 370 Nm, and a transmission matching the Aisin 8AT transmission, and the comprehensive fuel consumption of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is 8.8L/100km.
The new car is equipped with the Sinan intelligent driving system, the whole vehicle is equipped with 29 intelligent driving sensors, 3 millimeter wave radar, 11 cameras, 12 ultrasonic sensors, high-precision positioning modules, and high-precision maps to achieve global perception. In simple terms, the L2 level driver assistance system is easy to implement, and high-end driver assistance functions such as NGP intelligent driving pilot and RPA near-field remote parking can be realized in the future.
Full text summary: Now everyone buys new energy vehicles, always care more about its intelligent performance, but in fact, fuel vehicles can also be very intelligent, such as today's Roewe Whale, although it is a fuel vehicle, it also has a strong intelligent driving assistance system, intelligent interaction system, more intelligent than many electric vehicles on the market.
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