As we all know, China's automobiles have risen strongly in recent years, especially in the high-end luxury car market, and well-known car companies represented by QIRUI, HUAWEI, WELAI, and Ideal have achieved huge breakthroughs, and have achieved catch-up and surpass joint venture brands (including joint venture luxury brands) in terms of production and sales scale and market popularity. Especially in the mid-level SUV market, which can represent the strength of car manufacturing at about 200,000 yuan, Chinese auto brands are increasingly shining with the light of technology. At present, in addition to the first-line luxury joint venture brands of BBA (benchi, baoma, aodi), there are only a few joint venture brands that can compete with Chinese brands. This is particularly vividly demonstrated at this Chengdu Auto Show.
The recently concluded Chengdu Auto Show is like a feast in the automobile industry, attracting global attention. On this international stage, China's automobile industry has demonstrated the unique charm of "Made in China" with its strong strength and innovative spirit. As one of the leaders, Xingtu Automobile made its debut with a number of star models, and its strength deduced the hard-core car-making heritage and upward development potential of "Technology Chery". As the backbone of Xingtu Automobile's sales, the 2025 Xingtu Lingyun has also become one of the products in the competition in the mid-level SUV market this year by virtue of the product power upgrade brought by the new generation.
At the same time, at this year's auto show, the joint venture brand luxury mid-size SUV market also ushered in a wave of new car launches. For example, the all-new X3L long-axle version and the all-new Q5L were unveiled on the same stage, and were successively launched in China this year, and the traditional luxury mid-size SUV market began to be lively again. In the face of these strong opponents, Xingtu Lingyun also has a strong comprehensive product force and more attractive prices to compete with them.
Star Journey: The performance is comparable to BBA, and the fuel consumption is lower than that of BBA
In addition to the historical accumulation, the technology in the field of powertrain is also one of the important factors why a luxury brand can become a luxury brand. Imagine, in the face of the 3-second and 4-second acceleration performance brought by the W12, V12, and V8 engines on luxury cars, who wouldn't love it.
Once upon a time, one of the important reasons why Chinese brands repeatedly hit the high-end car market but ended in failure was the technical shortcomings of the powertrain. The mid-level SUV is a high-end product market, consumers have higher requirements, and the products also need a higher level of design, more exquisite craftsmanship and higher technical support, especially for performance and fuel consumption.
An important reason why Xingtu Lingyun can "explode" is that based on the inheritance and accumulation of 27 years of independent research and development, the technical background is extremely profound, and the strong R&D team is also the culmination of Chery's 27 years of self-developed self-made technology, which brings high performance comparable to BBA and ultra-low fuel consumption comparable to BBA.
Taking the 2025 Xingtu Lingyun 400T Xingzun four-wheel drive version as an example, the 2.0T engine it is equipped with has a high horsepower of 261Ps, a peak torque of 400N·m, and a high thermal efficiency of 41%, which almost swept most of the 2.0T engines on the market. The data is not intuitive enough, so let's compare the first-line BBA:
With the 2023 X3 2.0T high-power version, zui has a high horsepower of 245Ps and a peak torque of 350 N·m; In the meantime, how does the Q5L perform as a rival? The same high-power version, the 2024 Q5L, has a high horsepower of 245Ps and a peak torque of 370 N·m. The numbers speak for themselves. Friends who know cars know that to evaluate whether an engine technology is advanced or not, the three core cores of high horsepower, high torque and fuel consumption are the key, and the power performance of Xingtu Lingyun has been revealed.
The X3, which is also a mid-size SUV, has an official fuel consumption of 8.5L per 100 kilometers. Q5L fuel consumption per 100 kilometers is 7.96L. The fuel consumption of Xingtu Lingyun is as low as 7.7L per 100 kilometers. What the luxury brand didn't do, Xingtu Lingyun did.
Of course, if you have higher requirements for fuel economy, the Xingtu Lingyun 300T model is a better choice, which can take into account both fuel economy and good power performance.
Xingtu Lingyun: Jizhi's driving quality does not lose the driving quality of BBA
Of course, the strong book data of Xingtu Lingyun is only one aspect, but whether a car is good to drive or not is not all determined by the power system, a good chassis texture will make you feel the fun of driving more directly.
Unlike the intuitive parameters of the power system, we have no way to use visual data to interpret the tuning ability of the chassis. For example, Baoma and AODI are among the best, Baoma is good to open because it can give people a kind of easy to control the fast gan, no matter cornering, acceleration and braking are more delicate, you can achieve the realm of people and vehicles anytime and anywhere, which is also the real foundation of a century-old brand!
Unlike Baoma, which focuses on handling performance, AODI's good drive is another interpretation, and its chassis tuning is more comfort-oriented, providing a stable, comfortable and fun driving experience.
In addition to the two, the driving quality of Xingtu Lingyun is more in between, which not only has driving pleasure, but also has a comfortable experience. There is a kind of "sense of déjà vu" that can have both fish and bear's paws.
Thanks to the tailor-made Chery M3X Mars architecture 2.0, the front MacPherson independent suspension + rear four-link independent suspension adopted by Xingtu Lingyun, as well as Benteler's master chassis tuning and BorgWarner's intelligent four-wheel drive system, give the vehicle a very high driving experience. This suspension system ensures that the Lingyun has good handling, driving pleasure, driving stability and safety.
Users who have driven Xingtu Lingyun have roughly evaluated it as a German luxury driving style, with a smooth and soft start, clean gear shifting, and always maintain a linear and stable push back feeling from low speed to high speed, with powerful and precise steering, stable high-speed line change, strong chassis suspension support, strong body following ability, and strong tire grip.
As the main handling of the Lingyun model, its handling has long been well-known in the industry, winning numerous awards. For example, Xingtu Lingyun has topped the list of medium and large SUVs of fuel vehicles in CCPC professional stations for three consecutive years, successfully completed challenges such as climbing to the top of 37.1° Snow Ruyi, cliff braking, and car pulling planes to take off, and in the acceleration evaluation project, with a superior result of 7.29 seconds in 000 acceleration measurement, easily defeated XingyueL in 8.32 seconds and X3 in 9.33 seconds, showing the high-performance nature of track-level SUVs.
The founder of the new order: the "performance benchmark for mid-level SUVs" is not just talk
After talking about the driving performance of the three cars, let's turn our attention back to the Chengdu Auto Show to see the "performance" of its new car. As the sales leader of Xingtu Automobile, the new model of Xingtu Lingyun has been launched in July, so I will not repeat it here.
The 2025 X3 long-axis version continues the design of the European version, and the wheelbase has been lengthened to 2975mm. The new X3 is completely renovated at the design level, and the traditional kidney grille has added vertical bar + diagonal elements, increasing the luminous function, but this "big mouth" shape has become uglier and uglier the more it has been changed, and the more "neat" the front face is, the more complex it is!
The all-new Q5L has changed the stable shape of the current model that is harmless to humans and animals, and has undergone a major change in order to please young people. The front face adopts a new hexagonal grille, and the slightly exaggerated decorative small grille on both sides is not small at all, with the slender matrix headlight combination, it is more aggressive and sharp, and the overall look is more sporty and younger. I have to say that this is very different from the previous generations of Q5L, which is quite anti-Tiangang.
As for the price, neither new car is currently on the market, so the price has not been announced. But at present, aodi and baoma have withdrawn from the price war, and the price of the current models has rebounded significantly, so the price of X3 and Q5L will definitely not be cheap! Relatively speaking, the price advantage of Xingtu Lingyun will be more obvious, and the cost performance is also high.
Epilogue:
Brand improvement has always been a common challenge for Chinese auto brands.
In the field of traditional fuel vehicles, European and American car companies rely on a century of technology accumulation to control the right to speak on the definition of automotive product standards, but with the rapid development and rise of Chinese auto brands, the old pattern is being broken and a new order is being formed.
As a representative of domestic high-end brands, Xingtu Lingyun is just a microcosm of China's automobile industry's upward breakthrough, from sedans to SUVs, from fuel vehicles to new energy vehicles, sold to "out of stock" qirui automobiles, is becoming one of the potential Chinese brands, but also let everyone see the hope of China's automobile industry, the future will rise from the clouds, straight to the sky!
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