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The fifth generation of Mondeo is well versed in the art of balance.
Comprehensive product strength,
After factors such as cost performance,
It is not difficult to find that
It's a balancing car that awes competitors.
When Japanese competitors racked their brains to make mid-level cars younger and sportier, Ford Mondeo had long been dismissive, because from the third generation of Mondeo-Zhisheng, the deepening of sports segmentation has been implanted in the essence. Therefore, the evolution to the fifth generation of Mondeo only revolves around how to break through the shape of the mid-level car post-era, and then it is to make a fuel car more intelligent.
How to break through the shape? The success of this success can be proved by the new stem of "electricity to oil" left by Mondeo in the market. Consistent with the design ideas of the new forces of the car, Mondeo has no longer paid attention to the front grille family to enhance the overall temperament, and returned to the Mondeo that determines the win or loss of the three-dimensional size, the width performance alone is 23mm higher than the previous generation model, the visual feeling is naturally a car lying on the ground full of muscles, coupled with split headlights and the outline of the daytime running lights of the siamese, the trend and muscles are easily integrated into the whole.
Today, when the automotive industry is fully "big mouth", Mondeo does not forget to make an article on the details of the China Net. The internal scale modeling design effectively enhances the gloss of the front part of the car At the same time, through a set of "scale" transmission mechanism in the rear, the overall wind angle of the scale can also be changed, and the wind resistance coefficient can not only be optimized when the vehicle is running at high speed, but also can make the engine warm up quickly when the cold car starts, so as to achieve more environmentally friendly emissions.
The wheelbase of the fifth generation Mondeo has been greatly increased by 95mm, but the body length has only been increased by 62mm. This has resulted in the Mondeo overhang and the rear overhang becoming shorter, completely devoid of the appearance of an American car. Coupled with the suspension roof painting and sneakback modeling, it can only be said that Mondeo is indeed too "new force", and the only ones who can evolve in the joint venture brand are probably Ford and Volkswagen.
The tail design is the biggest difference between Mondeo and EVOS. First of all, the Mondeo C-pillar adds a triangular window to make the tail shoulder line more obvious; secondly, the Ford Musk short tail and slightly upturned style is made on the upper part of the tail cover, which adds vitality to the tail while losing the standard mid-level car frame structure, which together lays the foundation for too much tailbox storage capacity that is not inferior to evos.
With evos in the early stages, Mondeo also inherits this interior in its entirety. The 1.1-meter-long ultra-wide-area HD giant screen has become an important focus of the interior, including a 12.3-inch digital LCD instrument and a 27-inch 4K HIGH-definition central control screen.
The screen size is 27 inches, the resolution is 4032x756, and the ratio reaches 16:3. From the hardware computing part alone to adapt to this screen, it is necessary to have a processor with strong comprehensive performance to calculate, and more importantly, Mondeo SYNC+2.0 will also integrate driver assistance control, entertainment interaction, voice interaction and vehicle OTA into a screen for comprehensive processing, so the Mondeo vehicle FNA intelligent network electrical architecture is actually not much different from the new forces of car manufacturing.
In addition to the entertainment expansion and voice interaction capabilities that are almost equivalent to the performance of the new power model, the joint venture brand emphasizes safety redundancy more than the new power brand, so this huge screen can not only be displayed in split screen, but also add infrared sensors to monitor the driver's head posture along the dashboard, and if a long time to watch the rightmost screen, SYNC+2.0 will stop playing entertainment content.
In terms of driving assistance, the Mondeo high-end model has the BlueCruise active driving assistance function. First of all, in the hardware configuration, mobileye's EyeQ4 chip is used, with a computing power of 2.5TOPS, which is matched with 5 millimeter wave radars, 12 ultrasonic radars and 6 cameras.
No concept of these terms? That's okay, for example, Ford Mondeo's hardware for smart driving is almost identical to the NIO ES6. That is to say, in terms of hardware capabilities alone, Mondeo can achieve assisted driving functions similar to WEILAI NOP through OTA, but due to regulatory issues, this system is still L2+ level assisted driving, and high-speed cruise moderately frees both hands and feet.
Mondeo's performance DNA has been evident since the first two generations. In the fifth generation, the standard 2.0T+8AT of the whole series is naturally the opponent of the handicap high and low power version. The 2.0T EcoBoost engine has a maximum power output of 175kW and a peak torque of 376N·m, but the peak torque arrives after 2500rpm, so when the engineer calibrates the 8AT, the first three gear gear ratios are amplified, making it easier for the engine to climb the speed to the peak torque range to improve the initial acceleration response.
So when Mondeo starts the "floor" throttle, the 235mm tire is pulled out of the scream in an instant, if it is not the TCS active traction control to intervene actively, the Mondeo starting control, the driver's throttle control is much more difficult than the same class. According to official data, the 100-kilometer acceleration of Mondeo is 6.6S, and the large gear ratio design of the first three gears combined with the high torque characteristics of the engine will make the steering wheel twist somewhat until the gearbox is upgraded to second gear, and the smooth power output is fully released.
The gearbox shift speed is a big step forward from the previous generation. But there is still room for improvement from the first-line transmission brand. Thanks to the design of the large transmission ratio of 8 gears, the engine speed is suppressed very low during high-speed cruising, in exchange for the NVH characteristics and energy consumption feedback of higher scores, so the high fuel consumption and poor NVH performance criticized by the original Ford mid-level car, the fifth generation of Mondeo made up for the shortcomings.
More interesting is the braking part, Mondeo and EVOS use a completely consistent electronic control dynamic system, so the braking force in the initial stage of braking is much stronger than the traditional braking, and it needs to be adapted to familiarize yourself with the foot feeling. Of course, the suspension adjustment of Mondeo is still inconsistent with EVOS, the Mondeo suspension stroke is shorter, and the spring support is stronger, so even if the deceleration is strong, the body nodding phenomenon is not obvious.
Better replacement products are also inseparable from the support of the price system, from the price of 159,800 to 216,800 yuan, Changan Ford obviously wants to compete in dislocation, with the power advantage, play a lower level of Lingdu L, and play can rely on a more technological texture cockpit experience. Mondeo can also call the more expensive Camry, Accord and other models, so the evolution of Mondeo, comprehensive product strength, cost-effective advantages or more balanced, no direct competitors is its way to win.