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Smart Genie #1 stole the limelight from this week's new car list.
Author 丨 Deng Yongtuo
Responsible editor 丨 Yang Jing
Editor 丨Zhu Jinbin
The car market under the epidemic still has to continue to move forward, and any car brand does not want to be chaotic because of external factors. The release and launch of new cars can not press the pause button, of course, as a fan of the most likely thing to do during the home is to see which new cars are unveiled.
Among the new cars released this past week, if the most anticipated and eye-catching model is definitely this new electric vehicle, it is the smart genie #1 that just debuted in the early morning of April 8, Beijing time.
At last year's 2021 IAA Munich International Motor Show, Smart, which has completed the transition from fuel vehicles to electrification, unveiled its new Smart Concept No.1 concept car. As the first design model after the smart has been fully renovated, this concept car presents the world with the infinite charm of the smart brand with a new luxury style and tomorrow's technology.
After such a long warm-up, the new Smart Genie #1 production version is finally unveiled. From the appearance point of view, the mass production models have generally evolved based on the design style of the concept car, but they have been mass-produced and improved on the detached designs such as the two-way door. This car is not only the first mass-produced SUV model created by Smart since its birth, but also the brand's latest masterpiece in the era of digitalization and intelligence.
Today, whether smart, which has appeared in the public with a new look, may not be answered whether it has lived the way the world wants, but it has completely subverted the original image. Looking back, smart was first derived from the Swiss watch manufacturer Swatch's vision of the city car, the s in the brand name represents the swatch, m is Mercedes-Benz, and art means the common artistic crystallization of the two.
The newly released smart genie #1 is far from the positioning of easy-to-drive and parking city cars, with a length of 4270 mm and a wheelbase of 2750 mm. Although it is a small SUV, the interior space is in line with the compact, which is different from the sense of space of the previous narrow smart fortwo and forfour models, and what is more exaggerated is that the width of the car is 2 mm wider than the current Mercedes-Benz C-Class, reaching 1822 mm.
The change in model positioning may be due to genetic changes, and there is more Chinese power behind the new smart brand. Today's smart brand is built by Mercedes-Benz and Geely Holdings jointly invested 5.4 billion yuan to establish The Smart Motor Automobile Co., Ltd., and with the results of Geely's research on electrification, smart is more relaxed in the transformation towards electrification.
The two join forces, and the advantages of the new smart are even more. Thanks to the use of the Geely SEA platform, the 66 kWh battery can travel 560 kilometers under CLTC conditions, and more than 75% of the ECU electronic control units of the vehicle can achieve remote OTA.
In addition, the advantages of Mercedes-Benz can not be ignored, its global design team through the smart genie #1 wind resistance optimization design, to achieve an ultra-low drag coefficient of 0.29. Inside the car, it has a new interior design with 64 colors of ambient lights, and Avatar, a genie assistant based on artificial AI, will be a new highlight.
Smart Genie #1 will be manufactured at Geely's Xi'an plant in the future, and will adopt a direct sales model, produced in China to supply the global market. For the smart brand, after four years of dormancy, there is finally a new counterattack, hoping that the new model will lead the brand to turn things around, and for geely and Mercedes-Benz behind it, it may also start a new journey in the European electric vehicle market with the help of smart.
Among the new cars unveiled this week, the other models are counted as "two into the palace". Lantu Dreamer officially opened the pre-sale and announced the relevant configuration, kicked off the prelude to the independent brand to enter the high-end MPV market, but also Lantu to show the world that it will show its ambitions to show its grand plan; and MG5 Scorpio will begin to write its post-listing examination paper, the price of 10.29-11.79 million yuan, in the compact sports car market will certainly stir up a thousand waves.
In detail, according to the official announcement, the pre-sale price range of the seven-seat version of Lantu Dreamer is 380,000-480,000 yuan, while the pre-price of the four-seat customized version is from 600,000 yuan. Lantu Dreamer is the brand's second model, based on ESSA's native intelligent electric architecture, positioning large-scale MPV. The emergence of Lantu Dreamers can be said to officially open the door to the high-end MPV market for independent brand layout, and brands such as Denza and Extreme Kr have released their MPV model plans, and there will be fierce market competition in this market.
On the other hand, the MG5 Scorpio is MG's new layout in the compact sports sedan market, and the new passion lemon color has attracted more people's attention; while the black tail and diffuser, with bilateral four-out exhaust, can also capture the passionate hearts of today's young people. In the Trumpchi Shadow Leopard to become a popular model of the heat continues to decrease, Changan UNI-V with a more aggressive design and a more cost-effective configuration to take advantage of the chase, the emergence of MG5 Scorpio will make the competition in this market more intense.
Looking at the global market, there is also a small steel cannon model that is expected to have nothing to do with the Chinese market but must be loved by Chinese fans, which is the Toyota GR Corolla. This is the fourth model of Toyota's high-performance sports brand GAZOO Racing, following the GR Supra, GR Yaris and GR 86.
The new car is based on the Corolla Hatchback version and has made obvious changes in appearance and performance. The maximum power of the 1.6T three-cylinder engine reached 305 horsepower, which is not only a new height in power, but also a new embodiment of Toyota's research and development strength.
In the future, Toyota GR Corolla will be produced at the same plant as GR Yaris at the Yokohama plant in Japan. The new compact, high-performance sports sedan will compete with models such as the Ford Focus Rs, Volkswagen Golf R, and Honda Civic Type R. Whether this car will appear in the domestic market is still unknown, but it has indeed satisfied the appetite of countless performance fans.
| Deng Yongtuo |
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