In 2021, Changan Automobile achieved sales of 1.75 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 16.7%, of which the "Blue Whale" family became the sales director, with annual sales exceeding one million; new energy cut 70,000 sales, overseas export sales of 110,000 vehicles, and behind this excellent achievement, it is also inseparable from the help of its sub-brand Changan Kaicheng, and the annual sales successfully exceeded 180,000 vehicles.
In the official view of Changan Kaicheng, the reason why such achievements can be achieved is due to the company's multi-legged walking in the field of commercial vehicles, and in the field of pickup trucks, it has always been unremittingly building the core competitiveness of pickup truck products.
On April 13, Changan Kaicheng F300 was officially launched, a total of 4 models were launched, the manufacturer's guidance price was 60,900-63,900 yuan, and the appearance of the new car adopted a family-style design language, paying more attention to comfort performance. It is worth noting that at this press conference, the official also launched the "Surprise Leap Gift", "Worry-free Leap Gift" and "Renewal Leap Gift".
In the view of Changan Kaicheng, the birth of F300 condenses the accurate insight and deep understanding of Changan Kaicheng's demand for consumer cars, and brings together Changan Kaicheng's research and development skills and car manufacturing wisdom in the field of commercial pickup trucks.
From the appearance point of view, the new car continues the family tough atmosphere of the appearance of the shape, the front face adopts a shield-shaped grille design, the interior highlight black honeycomb style is unique, and connected with the two sides of the headlight group, tough and heroic, the vitality wheel eyebrow decoration enhances the sporty atmosphere of the whole vehicle, appearing full of tension.
The shape of the tail is very square, using more flat straight lines, which looks layered. In addition, Changan Kaicheng F300 is equipped with high-level brake lights as standard, with the word "F300", which greatly improves the recognition of the whole vehicle in terms of shape, and also improves the safety recognition distance during driving.
Usually, commercial pickup trucks are considered rough or even simple, but the emergence of Changan Kaicheng F300 has made people's traditional cognition have some changes, into the car of the new car, you will find in the dashboard, door panel decoration and other details, which add metal brushed silver and piano paint high-gloss black decoration, creating a warm experience.
At the same time, in the shape of the seat, Changan Kaicheng F300 readjusted the man-machine layout, increased the wrapping, expanded the stretch space of the legs, effectively alleviated the fatigue of long-distance riding, and the rear row is also equipped with a car seat interface as standard, adding more safety and care for children's rides.
What is the carrying capacity? This may be an important criterion for testing whether a pickup truck is excellent, and Changan Kaicheng, who is well versed in this way, has also given excellent loading performance to the F300 this time, of which the volume of the long-shaft version of the cargo box reaches 2020×1465×400 mm, and the standard shaft version also reaches 1500×1415×480 mm. At the same time, Changan Kaicheng F300 also thickens the cargo container skirt to 1 mm, and the cargo handle bottom plate thickness to 4 mm, making it more robust and durable.
In terms of power, the new car will be equipped with a 1.5-liter naturally aspirated engine with a maximum output of 116 hp and a maximum torque of 150 Nm. In terms of drivetrain, the engine is matched by a 5-speed manual transmission.
In terms of chassis tuning, Changan Kaicheng F300 pays more attention to comfort performance, the front suspension adopts a new double wishbone coil spring independent suspension to make it more stable, and the rear suspension adopts 3 2 thickened gradient stiffness springs, which provides a good driving feeling and a comfortable riding feeling while ensuring the bearing capacity.
Changan Kaicheng F300 adopts the newly tuned EPS steering system, which increases the response efficiency by 20%, reduces the cornering diameter by 15%, and makes the operation lighter and more precise. In terms of active safety, Changan Kaicheng F300 increased the effective radius of front braking to 114 mm and the radius of rear brake drum to 135 mm, significantly shortening the braking distance.
As a "tool car", Changan Kaicheng F300 is undoubtedly surprising in terms of passengerization, whether it is young elements such as pulling flowers decoration, or optimizations made in suspension, which further strengthens the overall competitiveness of the car, and then it will continue to compete with products such as Great Wall Fengjun 5, and its biggest advantage is to take into account the practicality of micro-trucks at the same time, but also have the comfort of passenger cars.
As one of the four pillars of Changan Automobile, Changan Kaicheng is well aware that it shoulders the development mission of making Changan's commercial vehicle business bigger and stronger, and in the future, it will continue to exert efforts around the three major businesses of "smart logistics, boutique pickup trucks and ecological circle layer", and build Kaicheng Automobile into a low-carbon smart logistics leader.