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[Understand Chedi original products] The phenomenon of "involution" is no longer the exclusive term of the Internet industry, but even more so in the automotive industry, which is deeply influenced by the Internet thinking. Nowadays, the proportion of new energy sales is rising year by year, consumers can choose more and more pure electric products, many car companies take the initiative to carry the banner of "inner roll", and the Skyfan F7 we test drive today is one of them. As the second model of Feifan after its transformation and the brand's first pure electric medium and large sedan, the "spearhead" of the Feifan F7 can be described as directly pointing to NIO ET7, Xpeng P7 and other models. What is its strength? Let's find out today.
Exterior interior section
Aura concept car
The design of the SkyFan F7 is not complicated, and some of its design elements are borrowed from the Aura concept car unveiled by R Automobile (the predecessor of SkyFan) at the 2020 Guangzhou Auto Show. In the front part, the Skyfan F7 adopts the closed design style common on pure electric models, but the bottom of the front surround still retains the shape of the air intake to enhance the sense of layering.
The headlight groups on both sides of the Feifan F7 adopt the current popular split layout, and the LED daytime running lights located on both sides above the front face are not only narrow and long, but also show the style of feathers with internal details, officially called "feather daytime running lights", and can indeed bring a certain degree of recognition after being lit.
Coming to the side of the body, the Skyfan F7 adopts a sliding back design similar to the coupe model, which has a good sense of movement in the visual effect, using elements such as a two-section waistline, five-star rims and Brembo four-piston red front brake calipers to bring a certain sense of sportiness. Combined with the vehicle's streamlined body and hidden door handles, the F7's drag coefficient is only 0.206.
It is worth mentioning that the front and rear doors of the Feifan F7 are frameless design, which is more in line with the style of the coupe model. At the same time, the front and rear glass of the car also use thickened double-layer laminated glass, which also makes the sound insulation performance of this car relatively excellent.
In the tail design, the Skyfan F7 is equipped with a tail light group similar to the through-through style, but the center of the LED light strip is truncated by the illuminated "R" letter Logo, and the light group adopts an embossed shape, which looks like it has a strong sense of three-dimensionality. The vents on both sides of the rear enveloping are decorative parts, but the large diffuser shape at the bottom of the rear enveloping further enhances the sporty feel of the tail. In terms of dimensions, the Skyfan F7 has a length, width and height of 5000/1953/1494 mm, and a wheelbase of 3000 mm, positioning it as a pure electric medium and large sedan.
In terms of interior, the Skyfan F7 basically continues the design of the Skyfan R7, and the overall visual effect is very simple, with adjustments in some details. The center console adopts the same triple screen as the SkyFan R7, which consists of a 10.25-inch full LCD instrument, a 15.05-inch OLED center control screen and a 12.3-inch co-driver entertainment screen. The steering wheel is completely new and has a more traditional styling style than the steering wheel on the Skyfan R7.
The 15.05-inch OLED central control screen has good clarity and color saturation, and the vehicle system hardware is equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 chip, which responds relatively quickly and integrates third-party entertainment apps such as Volcano Car Entertainment. At the same time, the co-driver entertainment screen is also designed with anti-privacy, from the driver's point of view, the screen is very dark, which can reduce the possibility of the driver being distracted to see the content of the co-driver's entertainment screen to a certain extent. In addition, the rear of the Skyfan F7 is equipped with an 8-inch LCD screen, which can control functions such as air conditioning and seat adjustment, and can also play videos.
In order to provide users with a more driving atmosphere seat sitting position, the SkyFan F7 has optimized the front seats, adjusted the lifting mechanism of the front seats, replaced the traditional toothed plate structure with a rack structure, and lowered the minimum seat height by 28 mm. Based on actual experience, such an improvement mainly increases the driver's head space, which actually has little effect on the creation of driving atmosphere.
In addition, the front seats of the SkyFan F7 have been optimized for lumbar comfort, with four-way lumbar support adjustment and a total of 70 mm of soft foam to better fit the driver's back, and the 580 mm seat cushion also improves the contact area between the body and the seat. From the comprehensive experience, its seat comfort is still relatively excellent, soft with a certain degree of support, but it is a pity that the sides of the seat cannot be adjusted, and the wrapping will be somewhat strong for some users.
The front seats are equipped with headrest speakers
The second row of seats in the Skyfan F7 has a similar ride feeling to the first row, and it also has a certain sense of wrapping, with a seat cushion length of 496 mm, good leg support, plus the backrest has 6-degree pitch adjustment and heating/ventilation and other comfort functions, it is still relatively comfortable to ride.
First row ride experience
The second row ride experience, 4 fingers left in the legs and 2 fingers left in the head
Of course, in view of the positioning of the large sedan in the Skyfan F7, its obvious shortcoming is that the seating space in the second row is not rich. According to the test drive experience, the front seat experience personnel are 190 cm tall, and after adjusting to the appropriate driving position, the headroom performance is still excellent due to the reduction of seat height. But after coming to the second row, the performance of leg and headroom is not so ideal, and if it is a passenger who is no more than 185 cm tall, the ride will feel slightly better.
Dynamic section
The SkyFan F7 is equipped with a drive motor with Hair-Pin flat wire winding and straight waterfall oil cooling technology, and is available in single-motor rear-drive and dual-motor four-wheel drive versions. Among them, the maximum power of the single-motor rear-wheel drive model is 250 kW, the peak torque is 450 Nm, and the acceleration time of 0-100 km / h is 5.7 seconds; the system comprehensive power of the dual-motor four-wheel drive model is 400 kW, the peak torque of the system is 700 Nm, and the acceleration time of 0-100 km / h is 3.7 seconds. This time, we test drive a two-motor four-wheel drive version.
The 400 kW of dual-motor four-wheel drive system is more than enough to cope with the power needs of a medium and large sedan, and the Skyfan F7 itself is also equipped with a stepless driving mode, which has a strong playability, its power response and braking can be adjusted, and the driver can adjust to the appropriate force according to himself. According to actual experience, the response speed of the accelerator pedal will still change significantly, and the two driving styles of sport and calm can be switched at will, and you only need to slide to get it.
On the actual road, the Skyfan F7 dual-motor four-wheel drive version of the model gives people a very flexible feeling, even if the initial performance of the accelerator pedal is not positive, but when you press the accelerator pedal deeply, the explosive power is still very strong, and it is basically in a comfortable state to cope with daily overtaking. And if it is not a hurried driving style, this set of power can also meet the driver's needs well, the acceleration process is gradual, with a light foot feel accelerator pedal, daily driving is also very comfortable.
The brake pedal performance is relatively clear, the foot feeling is not soft, the braking force output will be more obvious in the initial stage, and the entire braking force release process is very linear, which can make people easily grasp the braking distance.
Feifan F7 is also equipped with a single pedal mode, but there is still some room for improvement in the control of power recuperation strength, the initial performance is not positive enough, and even gives people too conservative feeling, in the process of gradually closing the foot, the rise of kinetic energy recovery strength seems to be a little too fast, just contact needs to adapt to a period of time, otherwise it will still bring some impact to the comfort of passengers.
The calibration style of the steering feel is more inclined to the home orientation, basically filtering out most of the road sense transmission, the steering force can be adjusted, and the process of gaining with the angle with the speed is also relatively clear, which can be regarded as a relatively easy type.
Pure electric models because the battery is located at the bottom, the whole vehicle driving state will be more calm, the same is true of the Skyfan F7, in the face of some high-speed corners, the vehicle roll suppression is excellent, the high-speed lane change vehicle center of gravity shifts fast, the body performance is relatively stable. At the same time, the chassis suspension can also absorb most of the impact force, and it also performs cleanly in the face of large and small bumps, and it has a certain sense of premium driving.
Write at the end
After comprehensive experience, the driving texture and luxury atmosphere of the Skyfan F7 still have certain advantages, and the technological atmosphere brought by the three-screen screen also has a strong attraction in the same class of models. However, even if the Skyfan F7 has such advantages, rear seating space is still very important for users of medium and large cars. So will you choose a comfortable ride or pay for a large space? Feel free to discuss with us in the comments section below.