Listing date: April 21
Brand: Land Rover
Guidance price: 146.8-2.498 million yuan
Level of concern: ★★★★★ (very important new car series)
Keywords: MLA-Flex architecture, new tail styling, intelligent upgrades, rear wheel active steering, stronger off-road functionality, streaming mirrors, eight-cylinder version of the sinking
Needless to say, the attention of the new Range Rover is self-explanatory – although the audience base of such top luxury SUVs is often "narrow".
For this type of car, talking about price, configuration, cost performance, and even competing products is not interesting. In fact, Land Rover itself has always believed that range rover "has no competitors". If you compare it carefully, you will find that the Range Rover, especially the ones listed this time, are all long-axis versions, and its positioning is still "higher" even compared with glos and X7 cars.
Let's talk about change. At first glance, the new Generation Range Rover hasn't changed much from the previous generation – it even feels like a mid-term makeover. Especially in the front face, the side of these places, absolutely can not let you see the "new" at a glance. The only significant difference in appearance is in the tail, and the main difference in the tail is in the taillights – which should not be described by Uncle Ka.
The same is true of the interior. In the eyes of the "engineering school", it seems that the main structure of the entire interior has not changed, and the adjustment is only in the details of the screen, instrument, steering wheel, gear handle and so on.
Of course, although the above is "understated", in fact, every detail is carefully crafted. For example, the curvature of the central control screen, the shape of the LIQUID crystal instrument, the process of the gear handle, etc., are quite elaborate. Maybe this level of car, it should be like this. Drastic changes to the design style, the current time period has not yet arrived.
However, this generation of Range Rover is a real "new generation" - it belongs to the kind of big replacement that even the basic platform and suspension structure have changed. In official parlance, it's called the MLA-Flex electrification architecture.
This electrification is still worthy of the name. At least in terms of intelligence, the new Range Rover is indeed keeping pace with the times. Aspects such as screen, interface, operation experience, etc., are not as "unworthy" as in the past.
However, the regret can not be said to be completely absent, for example, the rear screen looks very good, but the functional experience is very "retro". It is completely incomparable with the multi-screen linkage of the new forces.
The expansion of the size is expected, both in terms of length and wheelbase, and there is no need to say more about the interior space and ride comfort. Unlike before, the new generation of Range Rover also launched a seven-seat version. Only from the perspective of the car layout, the seven-seat version is still not the main one - for example, its seven-seat version is actually the lowest configuration and the most "cheap" in the whole series. This shows that in Land Rover's view, buying this car and having a seven-seat demand is still a "minority of the minority".
The highlight of the functional equipment, one is active steering, which should be regarded as "just needed" for models of this size and wheelbase, and the lack of the previous generation model is indeed a pity. The other is that the off-road function is stronger, with a standard rear lock, and also a wading induction as standard, etc., which are all icing on the cake. The third is the streaming rearview mirror – although this thing is not unusual, but for the Range Rover, there will be a different experience. For example, its camera is mounted on the antenna, can you think of it?
The six-cylinder version of the powertrain has not changed, not even the parameters have changed, but the acceleration is faster, and the fuel consumption seems to be lower. The eight-cylinder version has changed from the previous generation of 5.0L supercharging to the current 4.4L turbo - the displacement is smaller, the power is reduced, but it is still faster (and much faster, from 5.5S to 4.7S) and the fuel consumption is lower.
At the price level of "less important", the six-cylinder version basically continues the original system, that is, the price changes little in combination with the configuration. The eight-cylinder version was significantly lowered, from "more than three million" to "more than two million". Is this good news? For normal people, it is certainly true, but in the eyes of the local tycoon who "does not seek the best, but seeks the most expensive", I am afraid it is not necessarily true...