As a first-generation car, SAIC Volkswagen Tiguan announced the product information of the all-new Tiguan L on April 11. The new Tiguan L name was changed to Tiguan L pro to emphasize its full upgrade. At the same time, this is also to distinguish it from the old Tiguan L. After the change, the new Tiguan L pro will be sold in the same family as the current Tiguan L. The price of the old Tiguan L is expected to be significantly adjusted.
As an all-new model, the Tiguan L pro is based on Volkswagen's next-generation modular platform, the MQB evo, and has been upgraded on the platform. The facelift has two major highlights in terms of products: first, the Tiguan L Pro has a new look in appearance, and the car adopts a dual front face design for the first time; second, the Tiguan L Pro has been comprehensively improved in intelligence, especially the first introduction of DJI's on-board intelligent driving solution, which is unexpected by the outside world. For a long time, fuel vehicles have been jokingly called "bricks" by electric vehicle companies, and they are also instilling a point of view: fuel vehicles are not intelligent, and they are far from catching up with electric vehicles in intelligence.
Although electric vehicles have the advantage of intelligence, fuel vehicles are not impossible to achieve intelligence. The Tiguan L pro is the first to introduce new changes, which is of great significance to the entire fuel vehicle market. As far as the Tiguan itself is concerned, this product is the first SUV product made by Volkswagen in the Chinese market. At its peak, the Tiguan sold more than 30,000 units a month, and the price also exceeded 300,000, which is synonymous with mid-to-high-end products in SUVs and is a real "generation of god cars".
However, as the competition in the SUV market has become increasingly hot, the Tiguan's market has also been greatly affected. In the process, Tiguan launched the Tiguan L to be lengthened and in this way to improve its competitiveness. However, in the current SUV market, only relying on lengthening can only meet consumers' demand for space, and in recent years, the demand of the entire market has become more prominent for intelligence and low energy consumption. This also means that the introduction of plug-in hybrid models and the intelligent upgrade of vehicles has become more and more important. This facelift of the Tiguan is a response to this trend.
The double front face design has been expanded to include more products
First of all, the Tiguan L Pro adopts a dual front face design, which is classic and sporty and avant-garde, which represents SAIC Volkswagen's ambition to expand the coverage of this product. In the mass product spectrum, the Passat was the first to adopt a double front design, successfully expanding the younger market. After the success of the Passat, FAW-Volkswagen also borrowed from SAIC Volkswagen's approach in the design of the front face of the product. Of course, the double front face design is not only to expand the coverage of the product, but also the innovation of SAIC Volkswagen's product design.
Mass products have always been linked to "nesting dolls", which has been complained by many consumers for the lack of personalization. In particular, young consumers are becoming more and more demanding in design, which makes the public have to push for their own changes. SAIC Volkswagen's design reform is obviously more rapid, after SAIC Volkswagen launched a mid-term facelift "Spicy Steamed Bun" last year, which is more personalized. This product was an instant hit in the market segment, easily selling more than 10,000 per month, and the facelift was very successful. Therefore, the change of design is related to the double front face strategy.
In addition to the exterior design, the interior of the new Tiguan L Pro has also been fully upgraded. Among them, the newly upgraded 15-inch floating central control screen, with a resolution of up to 2240*1260, 171ppi, a screen ratio of 16:9, a capacitive touch screen, and multi-touch operation. The screen is deflected approximately 12° towards the driver's seat, making it easier for the driver to view the information. The Tiguan L pro is also equipped with 11.6-inch co-driver entertainment, in addition, with a 10.3-inch all-digital LCD instrument, black crystal streamer intelligent control knob, w-HUD head-up display system, together with a smart phone, forming a "6-screen interaction" effect, and a sense of science and technology is coming.
Intelligent cockpit: 8155 chip + 6 screen interaction
Of course, the car has also changed in other designs, and this time it can be skipped directly and talk about the intelligence that the outside world is most concerned about. In terms of intelligence, now everyone pays more attention to intelligent driving and cockpit. In the cockpit, the 6-screen interaction effectively improves the "digital" degree of the Tiguan L Pro. On the Tiguan L Pro, SAIC Volkswagen is equipped with Qualcomm 8155 automotive-grade chip (Qualcomm's 3rd generation Snapdragon cockpit platform flagship chip) for the first time, with 12 GB RAM + 128 GB memory, supporting 5G communication. With the support of the 8155 chip, the digital cockpit has more ways to play.
For example, in terms of voice interaction, the recognition rate under noise is increased from 77% to 90%, and the voice response speed is increased by 0.5s+. Support for distinguishing between the main driver and passenger areas. Support continuous dialogue, the duration can be set 0/10/20s. The voice control sector has been added, covering functional modules such as vehicle control, system control, air conditioning, radio, program, music, and navigation. At the same time, the system also supports wake-free words. In voice interaction, there is a more interesting function, that is, "voice cloning". Users can synthesize their own voice package by reading sentences aloud on the mobile phone, and can manually switch to a voice package after syncing to the car machine. I didn't expect it, SAIC Volkswagen can also be fun.
The vehicle-machine interconnection can support wireless Apple CarPlay, Baidu CarLife and Huawei HiCar, fully considering the needs of mobile phone users of various brands. Of course, the intelligent connected control car has also been upgraded. In the car machine, there are several upgrades that are also more interesting. The first is the map "freshness" and support for inertial navigation. The map data background of the Tiguan L Pro is updated once every 2 months, and in the absence of a network signal, it also ensures that the navigation continues to work, and the error rate does not exceed 1%. In addition, the Tiguan L Pro is also equipped with AR real-world navigation for the first time, and it is standard on all models.
In terms of entertainment, iQiyi, Kuwo Music, Himalaya, Leishi KTV, etc., also supports a variety of mainstream cloud games. The Tiguan L Pro is also equipped with a w-HUD head-up display system, which projects information such as speed, navigation, driving assistance, snow mode, and warnings on the windshield to present the most core information and focus on driving. At present, many new forces do not pay special attention to this function, but Volkswagen has always believed that this is a necessary configuration in the intelligent era, even on the ID. series products, Volkswagen has reduced the instrument panel, but the whole car is equipped with a head-up display.
Intelligent driving: Cooperate with DJI to reach L2+ level
In terms of intelligent driving, SAIC Volkswagen directly worked with DJI to create a new IQ. Pilot, this came as a surprise to many. But this seems to be reasonable, although Volkswagen itself is also developing intelligent driving-related functions, but from the current point of view, the whole progress is not satisfactory. In the current market competition, the lack of intelligent driving functions will obviously be directly passed by consumers. On the other hand, DJI is currently relatively mature, for example, it has a large range of applications in products such as Baojun. In addition, the cost of DJI Intelligent Driving is already very low, which is a great help to improve the cost performance of the Tiguan L Pro.
From a functional point of view, the Tiguan L Pro said that it already has "reliable" "high-end intelligent driving capabilities", and has made L2+ intelligent driving assistance that is more suitable for China's road conditions. From a hardware point of view, the intelligent driving system provided by DJI includes a "20+4+2" intelligent driving assistance hardware upgrade. Among them, 20 sensors have been upgraded (monocular camera*1/front camera*1/rear view camera*1/side view camera*2/medium-range front radar*1/rear angle radar*2/ultrasonic radar*12), while 4 new sensors include binocular camera*1/cabin camera, 2 front corner radars, and 2 new master control computers, including intelligent driver assistance controller and automatic parking controller.
In terms of function, it can realize L2+ level driving assistance functions in the range of 0-130km/h, which is basically similar to LCC in function, with functions such as paddle lane change and intelligent lane recommendation. The system does not need to learn in advance, and can identify and avoid obstacles (such as green belts, stationary special-shaped cars, car accident scenes, construction scenes, etc.) for driving safety threat scenarios, and can identify static objects above 40*40*40CM, such as cone barrels, cement piers, tricycles, large trucks, etc.
The collaboration with DJI on the Tiguan L Pro is a small experiment for SAIC Volkswagen. It is foreseeable that after this cooperation, if the market feedback is good, SAIC Volkswagen will not hesitate to embrace China's local intelligent driving suppliers with greater efforts. Of course, this also puts forward higher requirements for Volkswagen's own software development, both in terms of speed and quality, forming a reversal mechanism. This has also played a catfish effect in promoting the development of the Volkswagen Group in the Chinese market.
Except for IQ, of course. The Pilot system, Tiguan L Pro, has also been upgraded with the popular Parking Assist. SAIC Volkswagen's IQ. Drive Parking Manager supports horizontal parking spaces, vertical parking spaces, and horizontal parking spaces, and can also realize remote parking assistance, which can help drivers and passengers easily get on and off the car in narrow or awkward parking situations. In memory parking, the system can support the recording of parking tracks within 50m, and support the storage of up to 5 parking processes.
Of course, Volkswagen's IQ. The Light high-resolution smart projection headlights are worth mentioning, and the Tiguan L Pro adopts a new eagle wing through-headlight design, which is also the only model in its class equipped with high-resolution LED matrix headlights. This configuration is currently only available on other brands' luxury/premium models, such as Porsche Paramela, Mercedes-Benz Maybach, Audi A8L, Huawei Wenjie, etc. In terms of function, it can realize exclusive lane lighting, light follow-up steering, etc. There are also welcome/farewell projection lighting effects, and the sense of ceremony is also very sufficient.
brief summary
After the Tiguan L Pro upgrade, the competitiveness has been unprecedentedly improved. It includes the intelligent driving solution jointly developed by SAIC Volkswagen and DJI, and a 6-screen interactive system including a 15-inch 2K central large screen, HUD, passenger screen, full LCD instrument, multi-function integrated knob screen and rear air conditioning screen. It is also these high-spec intelligent hardware that make the Tiguan L Pro directly compared with Audi Q7, BMW X5L, etc., and it can be regarded as an advantage. In comparison with the same price Audi Q3 and BMW X1, the configuration is even more crushed.
Such a Tiguan L Pro will also enable SAIC Volkswagen to have the ability to win back a game in the market this year. However, in order to truly maximize the competitiveness in the market, we still have to wait for the follow-up plug-in hybrid products to be launched. According to SAIC Volkswagen, the follow-up (expected to be 2025) the car will be launched in a 1.5T+48V mild hybrid version and a plug-in hybrid version. At that time, SAIC Volkswagen's plug-in hybrid + DJI intelligent driving will be very imaginative.