"Commuting to work every day is normal, but you want to go out on weekends and holidays, is it appropriate to buy a hardcore off-road?" Recently, a fan backstage private message asked this question, the answer must be appropriate, after all, on the streets of the city, Wranglers, Mercedes-Benz Big G is not a minority. Of course, these cars are unattainable and expensive for most consumers, while the BJ40 and Tank 300 of independent brands have a lower threshold, especially the BJ40, which starts at only 159,800. Today we also borrow the BJ40 City Hunter Edition to interpret for everyone, if the daily commute is in the city, whether the BJ40 is suitable for hardcore off-road.
The so-called City Hunter Edition is actually the "C" series in the S, C, SE and P series of BJ40, and a total of 4 models are available in the whole series. Among them, the two-wheel drive pioneer type and two-wheel drive chivalrous passenger model are front-facing and rear-drive models, and the four-wheel drive chivalrous and four-wheel drive extreme models are time-sharing four-wheel drive models, with a price of 159,800-18.98 million.
Face value is a stepping stone, whether it is a hard off-road or an urban SUV, the value of the face must be the most important factor affecting consumers to buy a car, which can refer to the ranger, off-road ability, quality are not bad, but sales are quite general. The BJ40 City Hunter Edition has a square appearance, clear edges and corners, a sense of visual impact is quite good, although the shape is hard, but the full LED headlights and rectangular daytime running lights are still good. In fact, hardcore off-road, as long as the appearance value does not deviate from the mainstream aesthetic, such as BJ40 and tank 300, the return rate in the city will be higher than that of conventional urban SUVs.
In terms of body size, BJ40 City Hunter Edition length, width and height are 4630 * 1925 * 1871mm, wheelbase 2745mm, in the compact model, BJ40 body size can only be considered medium, but may be because of the square shape, visually it looks like this car is relatively large. In terms of space, because the BJ40 City Hunter Edition adopts the design of double B-pillars and roll cages, ensuring safety, it sacrifices space, so the back space performance is not very good, 180cm tall and fat passengers in the back row basically have to top legs, if it is only a small two mouth car, the rear row rarely carries people, but if it is a family car, it may affect the riding experience.
Needless to say, although the rear space is not very friendly, but the BJ40 City Hunter Edition ride up the comfort is good, BJ40 City Hunter Edition suspension travel is longer, and the tire wall is also relatively thick, slight bumps can basically be filtered out, even if the speed of the speed bump is not very high, the bumps will not be very strong, in addition, the BJ40 City Hunter Version of the seat is also relatively thick, and in addition to the entry pioneer type for fabric wrapping, the rest of the models are imitation leather material wrapping. At the same time, the three models outside the pioneer type also support the main driver electric adjustment, the waist 4-way adjustment, the top with the supreme type and the front seat heating, so it can have good comfort.
In the power part, the BJ40 Hunter Edition is equipped with a 2.0T gasoline engine, the maximum power is 165kW, the maximum torque is 380N·m, and it is matched with the 8AT transmission from ZF, which is very powerful for a compact model, driving in the daily city, accelerating and overtaking can also be achieved in one go. Perhaps the manufacturer also takes into account that the needs of different consumers are not the same, so the city hunter version provides two driving methods, one for the front and rear drive, suitable for those who are in the city most of the time, occasionally go to the self-driving tour of the consumer, although there is no four-wheel drive, but the non-bearing body, the self-contained anti-roll frame, the double B-pillar design, and 37 ° approach angle, 31 ° departure angle and other hard indicators are still not general urban SUVs comparable. But if it is a consumer who likes to meet friends for self-driving trips every three to five minutes, BJ40 City Hunter Edition also provides a model with time-sharing four-wheel drive, although it does not have a lock, but it is still no problem to cope with general off-road road conditions.
In fact, compared with the appearance, power, space and other parts, I want to worry about whether to buy hard off-road consumers are more concerned about whether the configuration of hard off-road can keep up, whether it can be comparable to the car experience of urban SUVs.
Specific to the four models of the BJ40 City Hunter Edition, all four models are equipped with a 10-inch suspension central control screen and a 12.3-inch full LCD dashboard. Among them, the avant-garde central control screen only supports two relatively basic functions of online navigation and Bluetooth telephone, while the other three models can also realize navigation road information display, original interconnection /mapping, voice recognition control function, and with the function of car networking, multimedia configuration will even be better than some joint venture city SUVs at the same price.
The 12.3-inch full LCD dashboard, the two sides of the display of speed and engine speed respectively, the middle can also display the vehicle's endurance, fuel consumption, compass and other information, the overall display effect is not bad. Starting from the two-wheel drive chivalrous model, the BJ40 City Hunter Edition began to be equipped with a dashcam, which can realize functions such as loop recording, emergency recording and video playback, which can save users the trouble of subsequent installation.
In addition, the BJ40 City Hunter Edition Supreme is also equipped with streaming rearview mirrors, which can further reduce the blind spot of the vehicle itself, and the difficulty of driving in rain and fog will also be reduced. Moreover, the streaming media rearview mirror can also form a three-screen interconnection with the central control and the instrument. Seriously, I experienced the BJ40 City Hunter Edition of the streaming rearview mirror once, the clarity is really good, even at night, the clarity is also very high, and the practicality is much higher than our daily rearview mirror.
As for the networking and personalized car that users pay more attention to, BJ40 City Hunter Edition provides in-car WiFi and cloud service functions. The former can provide relatively stable network demand in the process of outdoor use, while the latter can provide personalized and exclusive services according to the daily car habits of car owners. The performance of the two basically catches up with the pace of the current mainstream urban SUVs.
summary:
Overall, compared with ordinary urban SUVs, multimedia configurations and technological configurations, the BJ40 City Hunter Edition is basically not much different, that is, in the rear space, it will indeed be worse than the optimization of urban SUVs, but in exchange for stronger off-road capabilities and safer body structures. Therefore, even if most of the cars are used in the city, they can fully consider hardcore off-road like the BJ40 City Hunter Edition, after all, buying an SUV does not also look at it as having better passability than a car, if not, why not buy a car?