The recurrence of the epidemic has made everyone sweat on the beginning of this year's car market, and in just a few months, the news that "Toyota and Honda have successively entered the Chinese electric vehicle market" has come. With the entry of Japanese car companies, China's electric vehicle market pattern has been further improved, whether it is a new car-making force, or a traditional car-making force, are facing fierce market competition. In this "arms race", independent brand car companies occupy "favorable times and places", how to reflect the advantages of traditional joint venture brands? Perhaps a glimpse of this can be seen from the GAC Toyota bZ4X, which has just released its pre-sale price.
In terms of appearance, Toyota bZ4X's new design style can catch the eyes of others at the first time, and the low-lying body posture looks a little more cross-border, but it is a real medium-sized SUV. In terms of size, the length, width and height of the new car are: 4690/1860/1650mm, the wheelbase is 2850mm, limited by the height of the body, the entire series of models are 5-seater versions, and the space cannot be compared with the mid-size SUV body of Highlander.
It is worth mentioning that the new car has a lot of subversive design in the appearance details, such as the use of contrasting color mixed body color matching design, so that the whole car looks more personalized, more youthful, and the use of multi-LED lamp beads of the headlights, with an expandable air duct design, flat front of the car pressed down, the sharp momentum can be said to be no less than the new force product design. The shape of the side is still angular, the lines are smooth and changeable, the arched wheel eyebrows with black decoration highlight the personality, the sneaky rear design complements the LED tail lights with the flattened tail of the car, and the visual atmosphere looks extremely young, completely abandoning the previous "middle-aged greasy" image.
In terms of interior, although the material is not much better, it is good that most of them are environmentally friendly materials, which can effectively suppress the odor of new cars, and it can be seen from the layout of the console in the new car that there is a big difference between the interior design style of the car and the fuel vehicles on sale. Specifically, the new car for the first time using the dashboard rear design, through the concave, suspension design, with a unique shape of the three-frame steering wheel, to create a unique sense of distance, coupled with a 12.3-inch central control screen, giving people a refreshing visual feeling, the sense of science and technology subverted the previous Toyota car cognition.
In terms of configuration, Toyota bZ4X has done a good job of configuration differentiation, and the safety configuration is not a lot, which is a rare configuration sincerity in the same level, and in other configurations, it is a bit "shabby". Low-end and sub-low-end models are only equipped with reversing images, and there is no parking radar, no sunroof, no key entry, 12.3-inch central control screen, the steering wheel is made of plastic material, LCD instrument is all 7 inches, and the size of the central control screen is only 8 inches, but it is good to support CarPlay and CarLife. Overall, the price is lower than that of fuel vehicles, but the configuration performance is still very "Toyota".
In terms of power, the new car provides two sets of power combinations for consumers to choose, of which the entry-level and mid-level models are equipped with a front-mounted single-motor power unit, the maximum power is 150kW, and the power parameters belong to the mainstream level, which is comparable to the power level of Volkswagen ID.4 and ID.6, and the power performance is decent. In addition, the new roof and sub-top models use the front and rear dual motor power configuration, but the maximum power of the front motor is only 80kW, the maximum power of the rear motor is only 80kW, under the sum of the two and two, the total power of the top motor is only 160kW, fortunately equipped with an electric four-wheel drive system, which can make up for the lack of power to a certain extent. In terms of endurance, the cruising range of the two-wheel drive version can reach 400/615 km respectively, while the four-wheel drive version has a cruising range of 560/500 km respectively.
epilogue
On the whole, the configuration distribution of Toyota bZ4X is "precise", and the configuration class between low and middle and high matches is very distinct, which is the same "operation" as the Highlander and Lufang currently on sale. However, as Toyota's first electric model to enter the Chinese auto market, it still has some "sincerity", and it is equipped with safety function configurations such as full-speed adaptive cruise, adaptive far and near light, front and rear airbags, knee airbags, and air curtains. In addition, the price drop to 220,000 yuan and the provision of a pure electric cruising range of up to 615 kilometers are its highlights. However, in the inherent Chinese electric vehicle market pattern, for Chinese consumers who have become accustomed to an intelligent and electrified environment, the toyota bZ4X's configuration sincerity is obviously not enough.