The word "off-topic", which means "free and unrestrained" in Japanese, is increasingly used to refer to Japanese buffets because it appears on the signs and menus of Japanese restaurants.
Although "putting the topic" is Japanese Chinese, its meaning is ultimately derived from the word "put", and the explanation of the "Explanation of The Words" is "put away, expelled". From being driven out to being unregulated, it finally has the meaning of freedom. Therefore, "release" and "uninhibited" are often used together, Beyond in "The Sea and the Sky", also sang "Forgive me for this life of uninhibited indulgence and love of freedom", and was praised by Liang Qichao as "concentrated Shijiu from military music, ancient boys and children to let go", lu You, also with the title of "Release", self-respecting informality.
Similarly, boasting that "there must be a Toyota car on the road", FAW Toyota will use its own SUV models to "put" as the end of the car name, whether it is "land release", "Rong fang" or "Ling Fang", all adhering to the boundless walker, the yearning for freedom.
Xinjiang in July this year should be the hottest place in all of China, and countless tourists are driving their own vehicles through the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. In the event of a grand occasion, FAW Toyota's "Chengfengxing" SUV family media test drive will also show its skills in one of them. FAW Toyota showed its muscles on the Duku Highway and made an appearance one by one, such a scene made me think of the famous sentence written by Wang Bo in the preface to the Tengwang Pavilion more than 1400 years ago, "Purple Electric Green Frost, The Arsenal of General Wang".
The reason why I call this test drive meeting "the topic of travel" is first of all because all the SUV models under FAW Toyota are allowed to be test driven by the media, so that everyone can understand all models to the greatest extent.
Secondly, to achieve the parade, it is also indispensable to the strength of the FAW Toyota SUV.
Economic freedom
In the circle of chaos, there has always been such a sentence.
"There are two kinds of hybrids in the world, one is the Toyota THS and the other is the other hybrids."
Since the debut of the first toyota Prius in 1997, the legend of the Toyota THS hybrid has begun to circulate.
This sounds a bit exaggerated, but at least it makes us feel that Toyota, as a "hybrid early bird", has accumulated and accumulated in this field. Because we firmly believe that any word of mouth, its source, must be a unique advantage that distinguishes it from competitors.
It is said that the Toyota THS Hybrid is an expert in playing "planetary gear sets".
As the core of power distribution, the planetary gear set composed of solar wheels, planetary wheels, planetary frames, outer gear rings and other structures has become an E-CTV hybrid gearbox with perfect coupling of power energy streams such as engines, drive motors, generators, and batteries in the hands of Toyota THS.
When the stable and reliable structure of E-CVT is continuously optimized and developed, it is the process of accumulating its advantages.
Similarly, when this advantage is inherited from FAW Toyota to the SUV model, the SUV of the FAW Toyota family is unique in hybrid technology.
For example, RAV4 Rong put dual engine E+.
As Toyota's first plug-in hybrid SUV model mass-produced in China, the Rongfang Dual Engine E+ is based on Toyota's new-generation THS II hybrid system and is equipped with a plug-in hybrid system.
We can understand it as a further upgrade of Toyota's original HEV hybrid system.
The efficiency dividend of the miniaturized, lightweight new structure motor and the geared parallel shaft reduction mechanism on the THS II, it ate; The new TNGA 2.5L DYNAMIC FORCE engine relies on VVT-iE intelligent electric variable valve timing and a hybrid injection system consisting of high-pressure in-cylinder direct injection and low-pressure manifold injection to achieve 41% thermal efficiency and 132kW of output, which it also eats.
It then eats a larger lithium battery capable of supporting 95km of pure electric battery life.
This allows Rongfang Dual Engine E+ to expand one more energy-saving scenario. In the urban car state, the pure electric endurance of 95km brings lower urban commuting costs; In long-distance scenarios where charging is not convenient, the Toyota THS II still provides excellent fuel efficiency and fuel consumption performance.
Taking our behavior in Xinjiang this time, even if the long-distance travel in xinjiang is relatively harsh and changeable outdoor conditions, including the Rongfang dual engine E+, the real average fuel consumption of faw Toyota hybrid SUV is around 6L.
If low fuel consumption is the first saving point, then low oil requirements are the second saving point.
All FAW Toyota hybrid SUVs can use No. 92 gasoline. The difference between No. 95 gasoline and No. 92 is better understood by old drivers than they are.
The above two money-saving advantages are superimposed, this 2,000-kilometer trip to Xinjiang, compared with the same level of German and American cars, fuel costs can be saved by more than 30% or even half.
This means that on a 5-day trip, when we have the same travel budget, the money saved on the fuel side is enough to significantly improve the standard of accommodation and dining.
Comfortable freedom
Originally, I thought that "green vegetables and turnips have their own love", and different people will have different understandings of travel comfort according to their own attention preferences.
And this journey gave me a new perspective on comfort – sometimes, the outside environment can greatly affect people's judgment of comfort.
They all said they couldn't come to Xinjiang, and they didn't know how big China was. The vast boundaries coupled with the unique geographical location bring about changeable weather.
For people like me who are afraid of heat, driving through an area like Xinjiang that can experience changes in the four seasons in a day, the performance of the air conditioning on the car directly affects the comfort of the driver and occupants.
To ask why a high-end luxury brand owner would put the first focus of comfort on the air conditioner, let's say that after the xinjiang afternoon sun exposure roof, like a piece of iron plate for teppanyaki, it should be no pressure to fry an egg.
Fortunately, you can always trust the air conditioning of Toyota cars.
"You are sweating like rain in the bright sun of Xinjiang, and I am under the air conditioning of Toyota, and the four seasons are like spring."
This improvised lyrics is the closest to my feelings about the air conditioner of the Toyota.
The goodness of "Toyota brand air conditioner" is roughly manifested in two aspects.
First, the refrigeration is fast. How hot the cushions are after baking in the hot summer sun, every owner's thighs have the first say. In Xinjiang, you probably only need to put the feeling of the thighs and raise them two levels. But on Toyota, it only takes two steps to cope with this situation. First, open the car door, open the air conditioner, change the hot air in the car, after a few minutes, the car is basically in a tolerable state; Second, close the door and window, and the next coolness will be handed over to the air conditioner.
Second, good efficiency. In order to test the fuel saving performance of the vehicle, this time we drove a long period of energy-saving mode. At that time, I didn't think there was anything unusual in the car, and in hindsight, no abnormality was probably the biggest difference - even in the energy-saving mode, the performance of the air conditioner was not compromised, which was commendable.
Secondly, high-speed travel, NVH, that is, the tranquility of the car is actually a major factor affecting comfort.
In particular, high-speed travel like SUV models is subject to innate influences such as larger wind areas, which will produce greater wind noise at high speed. The continuous noise affects not only the good mood of travel, but also sometimes causes nausea and discomfort, and even motion sickness.
Therefore, I am particularly concerned about the high-speed quiet performance of the SUV. And when it comes to this, FAW Toyota Crown Land Release is not sleepy.
As a high-end luxury sub-brand model of FAW Toyota, and also as a new image of the Crown brand in the new stage, my feeling is that Crown Lufang has a special obsession with NVH.
Obsessed, when I sit in a 120km/h land release, if I close my eyes and rely on the voice in my ear, I probably don't think I'm sitting in an SUV.
Afterwards, toyota staff solved my doubts. To solve the wind noise, there are two main ideas, one is to cut off the noise source, and the other is to control the transmission path of noise. For the former, we can't avoid the friction of the air, and for the latter, the crown land release is a lot of thought.
"Based on toyota's TNGA-K high-end platform, the crown land amplifier is equipped with front windshield and front acoustic glass as standard, in addition, it also uses TNGA polymer vibration damping material and anti-sound vibration isolation material for the first time. Our goal at Toyota is to create capsule-like serenity."
I haven't been to what it's like to be in a capsule, but I know all too well what it's like to be luxurious and quiet.
There is no doubt that in the quietness of NVH, Crown Lufang has achieved the appearance of luxury.
Freedom of technology
I once made a joke that luxury car owners want what intelligence, and no matter how "artificial intelligence" a car is, it can't compete with the real intelligence of full-time drivers.
But only when you really drive on the road, you will feel the convenience brought by scientific and technological progress to driving.
For example, Lingfang, as a new member of the city SUV positioned by FAW Toyota's elegant light luxury, also has its own positioning in the technology configuration.
On the go, navigation is probably the most frequently used feature in the car. The Lingfang car machine has built-in Baidu navigation, querying a food destination, setting a navigation destination, and moving the mouth to complete all the operations, eliminating the cumbersome operation of clicking and the accidental risk of distraction when driving.
Speech recognition is also more than just navigation.
Whether it's playing a piece of music I want to listen to to suit the mood of the trip, adjusting the air conditioning parameters for a more comfortable temperature, or wanting to open or close the windows on either side... Doing this on the ling, I don't have to leave the steering wheel with both hands, and with a "hello Toyota", I can achieve almost all the actions that can be achieved by manual clicking.
At the same time, Lingfang is also equipped with the Toyota Toyota Safety Sense Intelligent Travel System (TSS) as standard, which can provide L2 level adaptive cruise, road centering and other functions.
Frankly, the TSS system may not be "sophisticated", but its advantage is that it makes the existing intelligent driver assistance functions good enough.
TSS's lane line recognition is very accurate and stable, ACC adaptive cruise for the distance judgment of the car in front of the car is also accurate, with a relatively soft acceleration and deceleration curve logic, but also to follow the front car when not urgently accelerated, driving without breaking and not abrupt.
It is a slight pity that Lingfang is not equipped with the automatic lane change function of turning on lights, but placed on the Xinjiang Expressway, which is sparsely trafficked, this set of TSS is also enough to alleviate the fatigue caused by long-distance travel.
It is precisely because of the assistance of various intelligences that this trip to Xinjiang, which lasted 5 days and traveled more than 2,000 kilometers, did not consume too much physical strength, so that on the plane back to Beijing, I still have a lot of thoughts to recall the test drive experience in the past few days.
On this trip, FAW Toyota used the "SUV Family Bucket" to make me feel, the accumulation of "Hybrid Early Bird" for efficient travel, the interpretation of Japanese luxury for driving comfort, and the understanding of intelligent technology in the new architecture.
From the bottom to the top, FAW Toyota has laid a wide coverage line with 5 models with different positioning to meet the needs of different price points.
For the vast majority of consumers suffering from mileage anxiety, the various needs you want on the Toyota hybrid seem to be able to find the right model in the price band of FAW Toyota.
Fine grading, comprehensive coverage, this is probably FAW Toyota's biggest ambition for SUVs.