In the car market, there are some peculiar species in all ages, and these species will always have a small number of people who are quite popular, especially girls, referring to those small and cute models, and some brands even focus on this model, no doubt like Smart, Mini is just that. But with the development of the times, these brands have slowly transformed, even to the point of questioning.
Mini
In 1958, the first MINI prototype car under the banner of "economy" was born, but in fact, the real popularity of the Mini was after 1 year of listing with a unique shape gradually embarked on the fashion high-end route, and I don't know how many people asked at the moment: When the Mini volume is no longer Mini, is it still called Mini? In fact, now Mini's model is still getting bigger and bigger, in addition to the 2-door version of the Mini cooper, including Clubman, Countryman and other models have been similar to the volume on the market, and the recent outflow of spy photos, based on the FAR platform to create a new Coutryman spy photo size is further improved, although it will still be a quite distinctive model in the automotive market, but continue to be so "muscle-increasing", Is mini really still the Mini that everyone likes?
At the same time, everyone knows that Mini will also join hands with the Great Wall to launch a pure electric model, Xiaobian also has a small prediction here, although the first pure electric model will be based on the most popular Mini cooper to build a basic hammer, but the subsequent increase in the volume of other models, it seems that there is also a possibility of providing longer battery life for future electrification. After all, under the wave of electrification trends, battery life has become a more important performance indicator than handling and fun, and the volume of the model is one of the main reasons for limited endurance.
Smart
Compared with the Mini, the Smart, which is also known for its small size, can be said to be more extreme, although the second-generation model is updated after all, it has "increased muscle" than the original generation, and launched a 4-door version, but in any case, it is still small size, easy to operate as the brand selling point. But just these days, such brand customs have been officially broken, Smart brought Geely's first SUV model after the acquisition of 50% of Daimler's shares, with pure electric drive, as the first product of the new Smart brand to return to the market, the mass production model is almost the same as the concept car, but with our impression of Smart, the gap is quite large.
Incarnate as a pure electric model, it has become an SUV look, the length and width of the body reached 4270x1822x1636mm, the wheelbase is 2750mm, to know that the previous Smart forfour is only 3495mm long. It changed all the shortcomings of the Smart in the past, with a sleek design, high-tech details, excellent space, exquisite interior to create, but at the same time lost the biggest feature of Smart, small, the past kind of stop-and-go, not afraid of traffic jams of the advantages, in this Smart #1身上可以说是不复存在, but there is a saying, if smart to do pure electricity, with this previous size, that battery life data is indeed difficult to do good, In other words, the idea of giving up small size for battery life just on the Mini, Smart just realized it earlier.
Fiat 500/Beetle
Of course, in addition to Mini and smart, the two opponents who were once comparable to them Fiat 500 and Volkswagen Beetle, there are actually some new energy direction actions at the moment, first take fiat 500 as an example, there is a 500 RED version that uses pure electric drive, under the premise of almost unchanged volume, the shape of the vehicle has been slightly changed, equipped with a 42kWh battery, and the comprehensive cruising range is 321 kilometers. Obviously, it chose the emotional side in the choice of rationality and sensibility compared to Mini and smart, and perhaps this is also the romance of the Italian brand.
In addition, I don't know if it is stimulated by Euler's "punk cat", Volkswagen revealed that the Beetle will return to the domestic market in pure electricity, after all, many models launched by Volkswagen companies are directly into the era of new energy vehicles, but the iD. series still lacks some points to see after all, so there is a iD.buzz this tribute to the model appears, anyway, all salute, why not directly take volkswagen's most classic ID Beetle? Therefore, such a rumor is still true, and the size of the Beetle itself is large enough to be used as a tram.
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