As a young high-end brand officially announced at the end of 2018, Xingtu Automobile is the "integrator" of Chery Group's technology, probably because of its technology and confidence, so Xingtu Automobile can list a variety of models within a few years to improve the product layout of major market segments to ensure the competitiveness and influence of the brand.
According to the "AutoMotive Business Review", on April 19, 2022, Xingtu Automobile was newly launched again, and officially launched its "track-level performance SUV" - Lingyun S at a price of 159,900-169,900, with a total of two models. As a product based on the upgrade of Xingtu Lingyun, Lingyun S has carried out a lot of sports transformation this time, the most interesting of which is that it is equipped with a "ceiling" level high-power 2.0T engine, so can this high-energy product have enough attraction for young consumers? Let's take a look.
The sports kit is blessed with more recognition
In terms of appearance, Lingyun S and Lingyun use the same design language, and the large-size grille of the front face almost runs through the left and right, which laterally expands the visual effect of the entire front face. The interior mesh adopts a multi-banner shape, which feels a bit like a shutter, and the sharp headlights above are connected by a black ribbon, and the "EXEED" character embedded in it looks particularly eye-catching.
The new car has a body size cover of 4690/1885/1706mm and a wheelbase of 2715mm, which is at the mainstream level of the same level of SUVs in terms of parameters, which can basically meet the space needs of family cars. In addition, Lingyun S did not adopt a sneaky design in pursuit of good looks, but created a good sporty atmosphere through design elements such as slightly raised window frame lines and multi-segment waist lines, which ensured that the body was beautiful enough without affecting the head space of the rear passengers.
Coming to the rear of the car, the design of the tail is clearly divided, the focus of the whole picture is on the through-type taillights, and the middle and bottom of the light strip are also inlaid with the "EXEED" logo, which echoes the front face and also brings good recognition to the new car. In addition, in order to identify, the red "SPORT" character is also used in the lower left of the tail of Lingyun S. It is worth mentioning that as a product that emphasizes the sense of sport, the new car adopts an exclusive sports kit with blackening treatment in the front surround, wheel hub, rear tail light and other parts.
Sports + intelligence, young people like it
Coming to the car, Lingyun S's "interstellar cockpit" is even more sporty, with a large area of black base, under the three-frame flat-bottom steering wheel, on both sides of the center console and other places are decorated with a small number of orange elements, under a closer look, Lingyun S's seat also adopts a red suture design, faintly creating a kind of hot lava under the black lava secretly surging visual sense. In addition, the "Super Power" red character is also designed on the central control decorative panel on the co-pilot side, which further enhances the sporty atmosphere of the cockpit space.
In addition, the new car uses a 12.3-inch dual screen, the creation of a sense of science and technology is also in place, when sports, technology these two trend design elements superimposed, Lingyun S said: Young people, you like the look I have. At the level of intelligent interactive experience, Lingyun S is equipped with the first Lion4.0 Lion Zhiyun system based on the Integre ACRN virtualization system, which deeply integrates the scientific and technological resources of domestic pricing Internet company Baidu, and the functions are basically available. In addition, in order to create a three-dimensional audiovisual enjoyment space for users, the new car is also equipped with a SONY custom sound system, which is usually a configuration that can only be seen on luxury products.
In terms of intelligent driving and safety assistance configuration, Lingyun S has L2.5 level intelligent driving assistance function, integrating full-speed domain adaptive cruise, lane departure warning, lane keeping, road traffic identification, active braking and other up to 15 mainstream ADAS intelligent driving assistance systems, which can ensure driving safety and make the use of cars more comfortable. In addition, the new car adopts a cage body structure, and the body is 85% forged from high-strength steel, so whether it is active safety or passive safety, Lingyun S is very reliable.
"China Heart" top ten engines, strong performance
As a product based on the M3X Mars architecture, Lingyun S has a very good power performance. It is equipped with a 2.0TGDI star-core powered engine with a maximum power of 192kW and a peak torque of 400N·m, which can be compared with Volkswagen's fourth-generation EA888 series 2.0T engine. In addition, this engine is one of the top ten engines of the "Heart of China" in 2021, with thermal efficiency of up to 41%, zero hundred acceleration into the 6-second range, bringing lingyun S as low as 7.8L/100km NEDC comprehensive fuel consumption.
There is also a noteworthy data about this engine, its maximum torque speed range is between 1750rpm-4000rpm, which can be described as quite broad, which can bring two major benefits: the first is the early intervention of the turbine, the product explosive force is high, the start, acceleration is naturally faster; the second is at high speed, if you need to accelerate, overtake and other operations, the power will not be tired. In terms of transmission, it is matched with a 7-speed wet dual-clutch transmission, and it is also equipped with a BorgWarner intelligent four-wheel drive system on the high-end model, which further sublimates the driving control sense of lingyun S.
Written in the end: under the influence of the phenomenon of consumption upgrading, in order to strive for more market share, "high-end" has become the normal development of Chinese car companies, but most brands have always been difficult to make up for the lack of core power technology in the car, and can only rely on design, process, materials and configuration to support the "high-end" identity of the product, but Lingyun S is different, its appearance, technology and even power and other dimensions, have the strength to match the identity of high-end products, based on the previous road paved by Xingtu Lingyun I believe that Lingyun S will also have a good market performance.