A person's achievements should be judged not only by personal efforts, but also by the course of history. This sentence is also true in an industry.
In the '70s, when the oil crisis led to the introduction of new emission standards in the United States, Jeep installed a station wagon lid on the chassis of a light truck to circumvent the "restrictions". Unexpectedly, this weird-looking car became very popular after its launch, and it was the SUV that later dominated the world.
In China, Great Wall cut its sedan production line in 2014 and switched to SUVs, eventually achieving its own soaring decade. Its representative model, the Haval H6, has topped the sales list for ten consecutive years, with global sales of more than 4 million units, making it a rare "global model" made in Chinese.
However, although there are always people who like classics, consumers are essentially dominated by the human instinct to like the new and hate the old.
So, even a classic model like the Haval H6 has come to make a change.
People go into the city, and cars evolve
If people were to condense their impression of the Haval H6 into one keyword, what would it be? Friendly, solid, and rugged? Each keyword more or less represents a face and characteristic of the Haval H6. In a way, it's always reminiscent of the countryside, bumpy dirt roads, and people on it who are just getting rich and in need of a new car that improves the driving experience and resists construction.
After 20 years of near-violent urbanization, China's urbanization rate has reached XX%. The brothers who drove the Haval H6 were already "city dwellers", and they needed a car that was more refined and more comfortable – just as the newers advertised.
Fortunately, Great Wall launched a new generation of Haval H6 at this time. Through the great evolution of exterior, interior and intelligence, Great Wall tries to make the new generation of Haval H6 able to maintain its crown as a "national god car" in the new era.
From the outside, when Geek Park first saw the new generation of Haval H6, it was an exaggeration, and even suspected that it was not a Great Wall product.
From the front face, the front face of the guardian of the new generation of Haval H6, the "star shield" grille is wider than the previous model, because it is still a fuel vehicle, so it does not adopt the frameless design of new energy vehicles. This is a good thing, because compared to the more traditional grille, it can show the vigor of the new generation of Haval H6.
On both sides of the middle grid, the two "Star River Waterfall" daytime running lights on the left and right highlight the design sense of the new generation of Haval H6 that is different from the old model, and with the "Star Light" headlights above, people realize that the Great Wall is still very serious about "playing with lights".
The headlights have a sense of design, and the Y-shaped taillights of the "Star Wings" in the taillight part are combined with the strip-shaped high-mounted brake lights behind the roof, making the entire "neutral" rear end appear more vivid.
The sides of the new generation Haval H6 are relatively modest, and there is not much change from the previous model.
On the whole, the appearance of the new generation of Haval H6, to use an inappropriate analogy, is a bit like the urbanization process in China, which is very fast, and it is now synchronized with big cities when it was relatively rustic.
If you would have thought that Haval's models were a bit of a shadow of the previous era, the new generation of Haval H6 clearly tells everyone that it has completed the evolution of the trend from the past to the present.
Exquisite + intelligent full, is it difficult?
If the new generation of Haval H6 is not as radical as imagined in appearance, it can only be considered decent. Well, in terms of cockpit and intelligence, it has indeed gained a big leap in evolution.
It is hard to imagine that the Geek Park experienced a car with a white interior that day, and just changing the color scheme can make the whole car feel "new car" immediately. If the logo on the steering wheel is covered up for people to guess, it is estimated that few people can guess that this is a Haval car.
First of all, in terms of layout, the new generation of Haval H6 has become a nostalgic design, which directly liberates the central armrest and turns it into a hollow island. The design of 50W wireless fast charging + cup holder makes the central control area refreshing all at once. At the same time, the entire central area is made of soft materials, which does not feel plastic to the touch, but the texture of the cockpit has been greatly improved, that is, it is more refined.
If you think it's just a material change, you might have to think again. In terms of seat configuration, the new generation of Haval H6 also brings full sincerity. It's hard for you to imagine that in a car of more than 100,000 yuan, the new generation of Haval H6 1.5T top version model is equipped with a seat + backrest double ventilation configuration, and the backrest ventilation is also designed into a suction mode, which can be said to fully take into account the health tradition of the Chinese people deeply rooted in DNA.
Even for the headrest, the new generation of Haval H6 not only uses environmentally friendly skin-friendly materials, but also inserts incense into the production process, so that the entire headrest exudes a faint fragrance of spring cherry blossoms. Many fruit fans have the habit of "sucking" a new mobile phone, but it is difficult to see someone "sucking" a new car. So when you see a middle-aged man leaning in to smell the headrest of the new generation Haval H6, don't doubt that he is not a pervert, just savoring the aroma of cherry blossoms.
With a 14.6-inch central control screen, a 10.25-inch instrument screen, and a 9-inch W-HUD head-up display, the new generation of Haval H6 is directly on the screen to catch up with the current new car products.
The screen is only the carrier, and more importantly, the intelligent upgrade. This time, the new generation of Haval H6 uses the coffee intelligent system Coffee AI, which is only equipped with the mid-to-high-end models of the Great Wall, the Coffee OS, which easily handles the contact and voice interaction, and the Coffee Pilot, an intelligent driving system at the L2+ level. In a word, the new generation of Haval H6 is fully complemented by the capabilities of mainstream new energy vehicles in intelligent cockpits and intelligent driving, and to some extent may outperform competing products.
Geek Park briefly tested the intelligent voice system, continuous voice command interaction, it can be said that it is completely difficult for the new generation of Haval H6 car machine system. The design of the latter also adopts the layout and hierarchy of the tablet/mobile phone system that users are more familiar with, drops down the system level menu, and can modify the apps and related programs that reside on the screen, with a high degree of freedom.
In terms of mobile phone interconnection, the new generation of Haval H6 not only supports Huawei's Hicar 4.0 driver interconnection solution, but also supports the interconnection of domestic mainstream mobile phones such as Xiaomi and OV, and also launches a solution called ICCOA to maximize the user's mobile phone mapping and interconnection needs. Unfortunately, the system doesn't currently support iPhones, which can only be connected via Bluetooth.
Since its launch in 2011, the Haval H6 has sold more than 4 million units worldwide. As a generation of national god cars, the Haval H6 is the first car of many families, and its brand image has been deeply rooted in the hearts of many users.
In the era of new energy and intelligence, the new generation of Haval H6 has made up for its previous shortcomings in terms of design, cockpit and intelligence, and has truly begun to embrace the mainstream design of new cars, and even surpasses competing products in some configurations and functions. If the new generation of Haval H6 can still maintain an affordable price, I believe that in lower-tier cities, it still has a chance to continue its myth of a god car.