Some time ago, with the emergence of Shadow Leopard and Changan UNI-V models, car companies gradually found that the original consumers who once supported the Civic and wanted to experience performance cars at a price of more than 100,000 did not disappear, especially the new generation of Civic not only canceled the manual transmission, but also had a "good" trend in appearance, but also made this group of people a bit "homeless", and the emergence of Shadow Leopard and UNI-V gave them a new home.
The explosion of 100,000-class performance vehicles made Geely also see the business opportunities, but it seemed inappropriate to launch a new model specifically for it, so the new Binyue COOL came into being. To be honest, there are very few examples of the modification of the car in the entire history of the car, and the new Binyue is from home comfort to performance sports.
The new car is positioned as a "cutting-edge national coupe", which is also reflected in the appearance. On the basis of the new design style of "Energy Storm", the appearance of the new Bingrui evolved into a younger "racing storm", the front and rear bumper shapes have been greatly modified, not only adding air intake decoration, but also the decorative strips inside the body form a contrast effect, but also added a blackened multi-spoke rim and carbon fiber pattern spoiler, the iconic sliding back shape, the flying spoiler tailgate and the trendy "hard green" body color scheme, making it full of performance.
The rear shape of the new car also gives people a visual feeling of sports and fashion. The oval double blackened tail row at the bottom and the tail wing are combined with the integrated energy storm LED tail light group to pull the sporty feeling full.
The interior abandons the home comfort of the original body, and adopts imitation suede, carbon fiber grain and other materials for decoration, echoing the appearance to further set off the sports atmosphere, and the dual screen design composed of 10.25-inch electronic instrument and 12.3-inch central control screen is not inferior in the sense of science and technology.
For the double clutch and CVT dispute has always been an eternal topic in the car circle, most of the supporters of CVT are fans of Japanese cars, and double clutch needless to say, the public's consumers are the most, in fact, the two have their own advantages and disadvantages, but in terms of body performance release, double clutch is definitely better.
Therefore, Geely's new Binyue directly abandoned the more comfortable CVT, and the whole series adopted a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission, which was even more exciting to the engine. The new Binyue will feature a 1.5TD high-pressure direct-injection engine code-named BHE 15-EFZ with a maximum horsepower of 181 hp and a maximum torque of 290 Nm. According to its official information, this new engine can reach a very high level of energy consumption and power under the blessing of many new technologies such as 350Bar high-pressure direct injection system and small inertia turbocharger.
You may not feel much about these data, but the improvement brought by this 1.5T engine is definitely not "squeezing toothpaste", which can be seen from zero hundred data. The current Binyue 1.4T engine zero hundred performance is 11 seconds away, and the new Binyue 1.5T engine directly pressed the zero hundred data to 7 seconds, a full increase of more than 4 seconds, from the power level of the Binyue from a family car to a performance coupe.
According to Geely's official news, the new Binyue will be listed around mid-April, when this car will compete with Changan UNI-V, Trumpchi Shadow Leopard, MG 6, and compete for the 100,000-level performance sedan market.