On August 6, the driving sight learned from the official Hongmeng Zhixing that its Xiangjie S9 was officially launched, with a total of 2 models and a price of 399,800-449,800 yuan. With the launch of the car, it will compete with models from brands such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW, which are priced at the same price. The Xiangjie S9 is jointly built by Hongmeng Zhixing and BAIC, and forms a "double 9 flagship" with the Wenjie M9, and surpasses luxury models such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW in a number of data.
First of all, from the perspective of appearance, the appearance design of Xiangjie S9 continues the design language of the Hongmeng Zhixing family, and adopts the theme of "Galaxy in the World". The roof is equipped with a lidar and a camera on the front fenders, reflecting the infrastructure of its high-end intelligent driving functions.
Specifically, the new car adopts a fairly concise design language to build, similar to the C-shaped headlight group + through-type light strip, and the logo galaxy headlights use bright star diamond technology, so that it has a good recognition and also increases the sense of science and technology of the vehicle. The drag coefficient of the new car is 0.193, which is lower than that of traditional luxury cars.
In addition, the Galaxy headlights are integrated into the design of the constellation universe, and the exquisite and deep texture in the lamp cavity highlights its executive luxury positioning.
The exterior colours are available in five colours: Gilt Black, Cosmos Red, Starlight Gold, Space Grey and Ceramic White. to suit different needs and aesthetics. Among them, Huanyu Red and Xinghui Gold need to add 10,000 yuan as an option. In addition, Xiangjie S9 is equipped with 20-inch ten-spoke low-drag wheels as standard, and double ten-spoke and, 21-inch Xinghui forging and milling wheels are optional, the price is 6000 yuan and 15000 yuan respectively.
In terms of body size, as a medium and large sedan, the car has a length, width and height of 5160/1987/1486mm and a wheelbase of 3050mm.
The overall design of the rear of the car is relatively simple, using the current popular through-type taillight group shape, and there is a ducktail-like design on the trunk cover, the lines are very full, and the overall look is more stable.
In terms of interior, the S9 is equipped with the HarmonyOS 4 intelligent cockpit system, which integrates modern features such as an LCD instrument cluster, a 15.6-inch center control screen, and ambient lighting. The interior is upholstered in natural wood and chrome and is available in four interior colours, including Midnight Black, Amber Brown, Clotted White and White Sand Apricot. The seats are made of Nappa leather, and the front seats are equipped with heating, ventilation, massage, memory and other functions.
The rear zero-gravity seat supports 12-way electric adjustment, with a waist angle of up to 108° and a knee angle of up to 128°, with an ultra-wide leg rest of 429mm, and the whole system is equipped with heating, ventilation, massage, electric adjustment and other functions as standard, fully meeting the needs of the human body to relax the body. The rear row is also equipped with an exclusive secretary screen, which supports stepless folding between 0°-45°, and users can also turn on the cinema mode, nap mode and super privacy mode with one click through the armrest screen.
As the first sedan model of HUAWEI ADS 3.0 high-end intelligent driving system, the Xiangjie S9 is equipped with 192-line LiDAR as standard, and is the first to apply a new end-to-end architecture, including the first space-to-parking intelligent driving function, as well as the omnidirectional collision avoidance system CAS 3.0, and the forward-facing AEB supports pedestrian and vehicle recognition for oblique crossing of the lane. It supports lateral active safety assistance to avoid danger, and reversing backward active safety is safer. The first road surface adaptive AEB, comfortable braking in advance on slippery roads, rainy and snowy roads, etc. The first eAES automatic emergency avoidance, when encountering danger that cannot be avoided, will brake while changing lanes to avoid.
In terms of power, the Xiangjie S9 provides two options: single-motor rear-wheel drive and dual-motor four-wheel drive. The single-motor rear-wheel drive Max model has a maximum power of 230 kW, while the dual-motor four-wheel drive Ultra model has a maximum power of 160 kW in the front and 230 kW in the rear. All vehicles are equipped with CATL's 800V, 100kWh safety battery for the Xiangjie S9. In terms of range, the Max model offers a CLTC range of 816 km and the Ultra model has a range of 721 km.