Compact + 7 seats + economy = modern Grand Creta
SUV is almost a product loved by people all over the world, with good passing performance, strong loading capacity, and extremely golden oil. But interestingly, in recent years, major automakers have been very willing to stare at smaller SUVs, make excellent layouts in limited space, and finally present themselves with a more affordable pricing.
For example, the modern Grand Creta.
Recently, Hyundai officially released a group of Hyundai's new 7-seatER SUVs overseas, and the new car is named - Grand Creta. Interestingly, it is based on the optimized K2 platform, and its body structure and wheelbase are extended, resulting in a super-superior 7-seat layout SUV such as the modern Grand Creta.
It is reported that the new car is only available in two power configurations, starting at 449,900 rand (about 195,200 yuan), exclusively for the South African market.
In terms of appearance, the front face of the new car is equipped with a huge grille, and the details are made of dot-matrix chrome trim, with a good business atmosphere.
Both sides adopt a more peculiar split headlight design, LED daily running light internal structure is more complex, is divided into three-stage design, focusing on a "chaotic" word, Korean cars still like to make some strange design ah...
Coming to the side of the car, the lines of the body and the design of the front face form a contrast between the line, a single, thick line with a certain sense of strength, the C-pillar position adopts a blackening treatment, the suspension roof design is adopted, and the visual center of gravity is more tall.
Coming to the rear, the new car did not choose to use the mainstream through-the-rear taillight design, but used a chrome trim strip embellished with the "Creta" logo in the details to highlight the identity.
The lower half of the rear surround is embellished with thick decorative strips, and adopts a one-sided double-out exhaust layout, with a certain sporty atmosphere.
Entering the interior, the interior of the new car is dominated by black and white, but it is not the kind of pure white, but a cream white with a little warm tone, which is very warm.
The layout of the center console is also very simple, and the design of the central control screen is divided into two through the color contrast processing, and the sense of hierarchy is more distinct.
At the same time, a collapsible table design was provided for the second row of occupants, but it was difficult to understand that it was always wrong to equip a home 7-seat SUV with such a business configuration.
However, what is more difficult to understand is that as a new SUV model with a 7-seat layout as the selling point, the official picture does not have a third row of seat display diagrams, which is very outrageous. However, through the display of the sunroof, it can be understood that the space of the third row of seats "seems" (self-confidence) is also running out, and it only plays an emergency role.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand, after all, the original positioning of this car is a small SUV, but the third row of seats derived from the "plus L" treatment, the space performance is naturally very general.
In terms of power, the new car offers a total of two powertrain options, namely a 2.0L naturally aspirated engine and a 1.5T turbo diesel engine, with a maximum power of 117kW and 85kW, and a peak torque of 191N·m and 250N·m, respectively.
Among them, the entry-level model is equipped with a six-speed manual transmission as standard, and a 6AT transmission is also available for consumers to choose from.
Some time ago also wrote a similar compact 7-seat layout SUV - Honda BR-V, for us, it is difficult to understand the significance of the existence of this test-oriented third row seat, but for users in South Africa or Southeast Asia, as long as the threshold is set low enough, why not have a slightly worse three-row space? (And not sitting)