When it comes to young people, I believe that everyone will first think of their personality, vitality and attitude. When it comes to young people's first car, everyone may further think of a series of models with personalized functional characteristics, such as performance cars, off-road vehicles, and even smart cars.
In particular, performance cars, as models that can not only meet the needs of families, but also achieve personal driving pleasure, have increasingly become the first choice of young people.
With the continuous breakthrough of Chinese brands in core technologies, the monopoly of joint ventures and joint venture luxury brands on the performance car market has gradually been broken.
Combined with the "long board" advantage of Chinese brands in intelligent configuration, the domestic market has also given birth to a number of domestic performance cars such as Lynk & Co 03, Yixuan MAX, Trumpchi Shadow Leopard, and MG5 Scorpio, which has just been listed and priced at 9.99-11.49 million.
As the most out-of-the-loop Chinese brand performance car since last year, Shadow Leopard has gradually received feedback after more than half a year of using the car.
Although the MG5 Scorpio is a "newcomer" in the performance car market, thanks to the sports gene endorsement of the MG brand in the past hundred years, this model is also a "hard stubble" that should not be underestimated.
So, standing on the real demands of young people, they are all aiming at the 100,000-level market, Shadow Leopard and MG5 Scorpio, who is the first performance car of young people?
More attractive to young people than aesthetic: MG5 Scorpio
In the past, we used to say that good looks are the same, and interesting souls are the same, but for young people who don't like to make choices, but "all want", they must not only have interesting "souls", but also have good-looking designs.
A car designed out of the circle, not only to link the young people's life circle, circle of friends, work circle, good look is only the first step, the car also represents their aesthetic taste.
For a personalized segment like performance cars, unique styling is often a key part of attracting young people to explore their interesting souls. Therefore, in terms of styling design, the shadow leopard and MG5 Scorpio have their own advantages in shaping the sense of movement.
Specifically, the Shadow Panther, which uses many fighter design elements, has a strong fighting atmosphere under design elements such as large-size air intake grilles, sneakback shapes, and bilateral four-out.
In contrast, the MG5 Scorpio that adopts the same Lamborghini "Passion Lemon" color scheme and the original Black Samurai kit gives people a more direct and profound sports impression.
The inverted grille, the bulging rib line design on the hood, the two-segment waist line on the side of the body, the red caliper, and the conspicuous Toyota GR Supra on the rear of the car with the classic ducktail, and the real four exhaust and other design elements, so that the MG5 Scorpio is from the details, capturing the attention of young people.
Of course, in order to obtain the return rate of the explosion, a performance car is not enough to "work hard" in the visual effect, and the auditory effect brought by the exhaust sound wave is also a major "plus" for the performance car to improve the return rate.
From this dimension, the MG5 Scorpio can activate the SUPER SPORT mode with voice or central control operation in the car, and precisely control the sound wave through the dual electronic control tuning valve, so that the sound wave gradually becomes high-pitched as the speed increases.
Compared with the sound performance of the shadow leopard, mg5 Scorpio is better, and the playability is also higher, which is more likely to stimulate the driving pleasure of the driver.
Than quality: young people should see, hear, touch the full sense of satisfaction
If you go back a few years ago and have a budget of about 100,000 yuan, many people's choice can only be to meet the "enough on the line".
However, with the upgrading of consumption, in order to meet the diversified car purchase needs of young people, car companies are also constantly increasing their sense of quality and the richness of configuration.
For young people who "don't choose, but all want", the competition between interior configurations is also the key to testing the competitiveness of an automotive product.
From the design layout of the interior, both the Shadow Leopard and the MG5 Scorpio adopt a T-shaped layout. In order to echo the sporty sense of the exterior design, Shadow Leopard adopted carbon fiber trim inside the body, as well as yellow elements on the seat belt and steering wheel to brighten and embellish. The MG5 Scorpio also lit up the entire cockpit with some orange stitching and design elements.
However, the expression of the sense of movement and quality in the interior space of MG5 Scorpio is not just the "vision" floating on the surface, but from the sensory experience of vision, to touch to hearing, etc., to achieve full coverage.
For example, in terms of touch, the use of 20mm soft foam material, and equipped with 10mm ultra-high wing zero gravity integrated sports seat, to the driver to bring a good sense of comfort and wrapping.
In addition, the dual 12.3-inch large screen, equipped with the 8155 chip and the IPS display technology used, are also for users to use a variety of functions from learning semantics, intelligent navigation, smart home, see B station, listen to NetEase cloud, etc., bringing a more delicate and clear screen color display and smooth central control screen operation experience.
The immersive bass experience brought by yamaha hi-fi further adds the quality of the cockpit from the auditory dimension.
In contrast, the smaller screen size, high-end models have voice, gesture, facial recognition functions, and the top model only has the Shadow Leopard of the Internet of Vehicles, which is still inferior to mg5 Scorpio in terms of configuration richness.
In terms of intelligent configuration, take the 118,000 Shadow Leopard J15 model and the 117,900 yuan MG5 Scorpio Trophy Sports Flagship Edition as a comparison, on the basis of similar prices, MG5 Scorpio in the intelligent driving assistance function, there are also many more configurations. For example, parallel assist, 360-degree panoramic image, reversing side warning system, full-speed adaptive endurance and so on.
Than the soul: performance competition can better reflect the "value for money"
Then again, the competition between performance cars, the most indispensable is actually around a series of driving performance performance performance "soul" competition around 100 km acceleration, power parameter specifications and braking distance. This is also the "last mile" to impress young consumers.
First, let's look at the hard indicator of 100 km acceleration. According to the official data, MG5 Scorpio is 6.9 seconds, and shadow leopard is 6.95 seconds.
However, according to the previous measurements of some shadow leopard car owners, the acceleration performance of the shadow leopard was measured at about 8 seconds, or there was some gap with the official data.
The MG5 Scorpio also opened a test drive before the listing, we also drove this model more intensely at that time, according to the measured data, mg5 Scorpio measured zero hundred acceleration performance of 6.9 seconds, and the official data is basically the same, it is indeed surprising.
The reason is that the 1.5T engine equipped with the MG5 Scorpio is indispensable to the ePOWER Control electronic control turbo technology and 350bar ultra-high pressure fuel direct injection technology.
Under the installation of these two black technologies, this engine can reach peak torque at 1500 rpm, and the maximum power and peak torque can reach 133kW and 285N·m respectively. One foot on the throttle, push back feeling to come.
Combined with the Mercedes-Benz AMG C43 9AT, which is nominated for the world's top ten transmissions, the 7-speed wet DCT, with a traditional efficiency of up to 97%, this powertrain brings a very smooth shifting experience on the basis of bringing abundant power output to the MG5 Scorpio.
In addition, thanks to michelin tires German continental brake red caliper + FlexMax technology, the grip performance of the whole vehicle is also surprising.
The data shows that the MG5 Scorpio 100-kilometer brake stop can reach the 35-meter level, while the actual measurement of the shadow leopard is 41 meters, and the Michelin tire is still an optional configuration, which requires an additional cost of 3,000 yuan.
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On the whole, as a 100,000-level performance car, compared with the Shadow Leopard, MG5 Scorpio not only achieves great value for money, but also allows design, quality and performance needs to be fully met. For young people with limited budgets but diverse needs, it can be said that "fish and bear paws can be obtained at the same time".