In recent years, every sports-focused A-Class sedan has been compared to the Civic, as if every 7-seater SUV had to be PK with highlander.
Coincidentally, I am a ten-generation Civic owner. The reason why I chose it that year was to be impressed by its control and fame. The owner of the Civic introduced by my hand is no less than 8. Now I have been operating this Civic for 5 years, and I am very satisfied with everything.
Ali is a primary school classmate of mine, opened a mobile phone shop in a fourth-tier prefecture-level city in northern Henan, and when I was consulted some time ago to buy a car, I still recommended the Civic at that time, although the appearance of the eleventh generation model was not as public as the tenth generation.
But I didn't expect that in the end, he didn't choose civic, but bought a Dongfeng Wind God Yixuan MAX. During the Qingming holiday, we sat together and talked about it, and I also had the opportunity to test drive the car.
To be honest, at first I was very surprised by his choice, and I actually chose a domestic car without choosing a good-end Civic. But when I test-drove the car, my view of it changed slightly.
Static whole vehicle experience, it puts the mind of young people to grasp the dead
If the Civic does not change, it is better to push it into the sea. It means that for this kind of sports A-class car that pursues individuality, youth and publicity are the labels that come with them.
But the friend's Yixuan MAX, it seems that the factory has been originally changed, and those that young people want, this body has it.
The size of the net is very large, the dot matrix shape is tightened inward, and the yellow trim and chrome decoration are very attractive. To be honest, this kind of sharp line cut out of the front of the car is quite conspicuous, the dot-like grille also uses a dark design, if it is not a friend who told me in advance that the Yixuan MAX in front of me is a plain car, I really think that everything I see in front of me is his own change in the later stage.
Push open the door into the interior, sit on the seat spliced with double fabrics, have to boast that the interior material is very thick, because the hand touches it, the co-pilot side and the door panel internal test are basically soft materials, the filling is very thick, giving people the feeling of being very high-grade. Combined with the ventilation, massage and memory features of the main driver, this is a pleasure that my Civic does not have.
In addition, if you look closely, you will find that the central control area of the Yixuan MAX is actually tilted 9.8° to the driver's side. I personally like this design, although the angle of tilt is not much, but more or less there is a sense of driving domination.
What needs to be emphasized more is space. Yixuan MAX's length, width and height are 4797*1870*1474mm, and the wheelbase is 2770mm, each of which is better than my Civic. In fact, it is true that the ride is also the case, judging by my 175cm/80kg size, sitting in yixuan MAX obviously feels that its riding experience is better.
For the intelligent interconnection system that young people like, relying on hardware equipment such as full LCD dashboard + large size central control screen, and software support such as WindLink 6.0 system, rich online functions and intelligent speech recognition can be realized.
There's also its L2+ level intelligent driver assistance feature, which integrates 28 sub-functions. Through 5 ultra-high-definition cameras, 5 millimeter wave radars, and 12 ultrasonic radars, the system ensures 0-200 meters of 360 ° no dead angle monitoring, which can provide perfect safety protection in the 7 major car scenes of users every day. It is no wonder, after all, netizens affectionately call Yixuan MAX the 80,000-level L2+ level intelligent driving popularizer and the only model of 80,000-level five-star safety, which is not out of thin air.
It can be understood that the greater value of yixuan MAX models lies in the "high-end performance popularizer", which aims at the mainstream home car market and customer base, with its own positioning of "track-level wide-body family car", it comes up with a B-class configuration and attacks the mainstream A-class market. This higher level of performance and comfort experience undoubtedly brings a better experience to consumers in the A-class car market.
The core dynamic experience, I do underestimate it a little bit
Yixuan MAX is also equipped with a 1.5T turbocharged engine, but this engine has a Mach-powered title prefix, which looks quite intimidating.
And its parameters are better than the Earth Dream 1.5T, 190 horsepower, 140 kilowatts of maximum power, peak torque of 300 Nm. Keep in mind that the Civic 1.5T has 182 hp, a maximum power of 134 kW, and a peak torque of 240 Nm.
Driving this Yixuan MAX first ran a section of the city road, it was the morning rush hour from 7:30 to 8:30, the speed could not be fast, although I could not feel the explosive power of this engine, but I just felt whether the matching Getrag 7-speed wet dual-clutch transmission was frustrated.
To my surprise, in the case of stop-and-go in the city, this car does not have the same routine as some double clutches, unless you deliberately slam on the accelerator to increase the speed, otherwise there is a little CVT smoothness. After the speed of the urban area rises, the upshift action is very soft, and the downshift speed is also acceptable.
When you come to the city expressway, after running at a speed, you can feel the advantage of this 1.5T Mach power, that is, the value of its engine parameters. Stepping on the throttle deeply, the mid-range power output is also OK. In the speed range of 1800-4000rpm, the fuller power output can always be clearly felt. After all, the CTCC 2 championship is not a vacuum.
It is worth mentioning that this Four-Wheel Independent Suspension System of the Max is a plus. When passing through some characteristic roads such as gravel roads and washboard roads in the suburbs, I obviously felt that the filter vibration was more thorough when passing through the bumps, not thin or loose, and had reached or even surpassed many joint venture models of the same level.
【Conclusion】Looking back, let's look at the question of the title of the article, the Owner of the Civic test drive YiXuan MAX, I heard that the online evaluation is not low, what is the real level? Admittedly, as some netizens summed up, although the hype ability of Yixuan MAX is not as good as that of the shadow leopard, if you single out the Civic, this domestic steel cannon is really not afraid. In particular, the strength of the static level, whether it is appearance, space or configuration, is indeed sincere. What else do you think about this? You are also welcome to leave a message at the end of the article.