Cars have changed dramatically in recent years, from the initial means of transportation to the large toys of some people, and then to today's electronic technology. It is no longer a simple carrier, but a choice for car owners to highlight their personality and express their needs. For a car, the attributes of youth, purity, and sports seem to have strong demand, but they are often applauded, and visible light is far from enough. For a person who loves to drive, I don't want this type of car to "go extinct". This topic reminds me of the all-new model created with Honda Architecture's new architecture and the latest car-making benchmark, and it is still insisting.
Fortunately, it is inevitable that you will commit occupational diseases and rack your brains to verify whether it is qualified. From a "superficial" point of view, the main type of emerald blue and hot yellow are really bright enough, and long-term relationship will not feel aesthetic fatigue. Don't want that high return rate, the other four colors of that type (Star Moon White, Greenland White, Rose Black, and Star Red) can also satisfy you. But it is still highly recommended that you buy hot yellow, because whether it is in the mountains or the city, it is very pleasant to take a photo with your mobile phone.
Looking back, the requirements of beautiful colors for body design are higher, and the use of each face and each line will be more prominent and more important. The front part of the car is designed to be low and smooth, so that the smooth scene that allows the brain to make up for the rapid flow of air can be seen. Slender full LED headlights with adaptive near and far light function. From the effect point of view, the body is widened and the visual center of gravity is reduced. The waistline of the side of the car through the head and tail is simple and tough, the long front and short tail, the low body height, and the sense of sport are full. The 18-inch wheels are just right and leave some room for imagination for tuning enthusiasts. The 45 degrees behind the side is the perfect angle of the ornamental grid, not extremely exaggerated, not excessively convergent, and the stylish part can be seen. Bilateral single out of the exhaust tail throat, embellished just right.
The appearance is qualified, but what about the inside? The L15C9 engine on the model can output a maximum horsepower of 182 horses, which is comparable to the low power level of 2.0T of the mainstream brand of the German series. The torque of 1700-4500 rpm maximum of 240 Nm also covers most of the daily use zone. When driving intensely and decelerating, the "reverse turn" (deceleration and downshifting, speed drop) also falls in this range, so when accelerating again, the car will still be in the most powerful (maximum torque range) state. The upright engine layout also allows the exhaust manifold in front of the engine to have stronger heat dissipation performance and higher plasticity, making low torque and turbine response better. At the same time, it reduces the impact of high temperature and exhaust noise on the cockpit when the engine is running under high load.
Of course, the most exciting thing is that you can buy three pedals, with Wing Chun gear. Compared with the standard equipment for driving pleasure a decade ago, there are fewer and fewer models that are willing to be equipped with manual transmissions, which can be said to be on the verge of extinction. From this, we can see the changes of the times and honda's persistence. The two can influence each other, but never compromise completely. There are also cars with CVT gearboxes to choose from, and I believe that the models equipped with CVTs must sell more and be equally enjoyable to drive. But at this stage, there is a choice, which is a kind of happiness.
These remarks are not empty, because I hold some "old ideas" and want to go to the mountains to brutally abuse the character, which turns out to subvert some of my concepts about it. The style is very neat when driving intensely. There are two aspects, on the one hand, the chassis is very tough, there is no extra bounce, and the support of the shock absorber is enough. In terms of dynamic characteristics, the type does not have the obvious "bad fault" of the front-drive car - the push head, the steady-state limit of the front and rear wheels is relatively uniform, even if it is easy for novices to drive. Of course, this does not mean that it sacrifices the comfort of daily use, and even drives a bit of a European car.
On the other hand, the rigidity of the body, which is definitely a surprise. The type of vehicle uses a large number of ultra-high-strength steel plates with tensile strength of more than 980MPa, such as: the inner layer of the B-pillar, the front wheel cover, the beam in the roof, the front floor skeleton, the inner sill, etc. It accounts for 24.5% of the body. Moreover, the A-pillar as a whole, the B-pillar middle layer, the sill and the front beam of the roof are all made of thermoformed steel plate with a tensile strength of more than 1500MPa, accounting for up to 10.6% of the body frame. Combined with the enhanced structure of the body floor and the front and rear ring areas of the body, the torsional rigidity and bending rigidity of the vehicle in the model are increased by 8% and 13% respectively. So that in the corners with a large gap between the inside and outside, pushing the car to the extreme will not have the feeling of body noise and body distortion.
The lightweight "skeleton" under the high rigidity platform invisibly greatly improves the passive safety of the vehicle. Active safety configuration is also very complete, parallel assist, lane keeping, active braking, etc. Basically, it didn't fall. Among them, Honda SENSING's full-speed ACC and lane center-keeping functions allow the model to achieve L2-level intelligent driving assistance and make driving easier. There are also ten airbags that everyone wants to use, but they don't want to use. Such a sincere configuration is enough to see the importance that this car attaches to safety.
The length, width and height of the body have reached 4689 * 1802 * 1415mm, which ensures that the carriage has a comfortable seating space, and in the overall utilization of space, Honda has always been a good hand. There are no fancy designs in the car, all are practical layouts and equipment. At the moment of unlocking the vehicle, you will have an experience similar to that of a new energy vehicle, because the type is equipped with a card key. The car machine uses honda connect 3.0 intelligent guide interconnection system, which supports intelligent navigation, voice vehicle control, can also use mobile phones to control the car, and even use the car to control the air conditioning at home through Tmall Genie, and the OTA online upgrade function of the car machine can also be realized. In this way, there is no phenomenon of "partial discipline" in the type, and even the items that we should think of as relatively weak are at the forefront of the same level of models.
Usually, when a new model is launched, there will be a "calm period", and everyone will temporarily choose to be prohibitive, but the style is a bit unusual. According to the January 2022 sales data officially released by Guangqi Honda, the cumulative sales volume of Guangqi Honda's sedan matrix in January was 41,085 units, an increase of 57.6% year-on-year. In January, as the complete sales month of the model, the sales volume also reached 9215 vehicles, which can be seen that in the car matrix of Guangqi Honda, the proportion of model sales is very high. It seems that the style has achieved the insistence on that purity, and honda architecture's new architecture has really brought consumers attractiveness and substantial advantages, which is its charm.