What electric car to buy around 250,000?
This question was put in place a year ago, and I would only recommend the Mode 3. But this year, there are already a lot of options at this price point. The Xiaopeng P7 and the Tang EV with blade batteries are all models that are very worth buying, in addition, there are Volkswagen's ID.4 and ID6. Last month, I test-drove saic-Volkswagen's ID.6X, which showed volkswagen's skills as a global auto giant to the fullest, and the handling, chassis, brakes, and workmanship are really superior in the current new energy market.
Just a few days ago, I participated in the Volkswagen China Science and Technology Construction Society and test-drove the FAW-Volkswagen ID.4 CROZZ, which made me love the ID family a little more.
The sense of technology is not enough to shape to make up
Compared with the larger ID.6, the shape of id.4 is much more flexible. This visual effect is first of all determined by size, and the ID.4 is longer and lower in height than the tanyue body of the same class. Coupled with the long wheelbase and short front and rear suspension characteristics of the MEB platform, the ID.4's posture is very slender.
In addition, as a 6/7-seat SUV, the ID.6 is mainly aimed at home users, so its detailed design is relatively modest. The ID.4 headlights are more slender, and the bumper also adopts a simple and powerful shape, a healthy posture, and an avant-garde detail design, making the ID.4 more youthful and athletic.
When you get in the car, ID.4 is not much different from ID.6. At first glance, the layout of the entire cockpit is very traditional, and there is not much difference between it and Volkswagen's fuel vehicles. Since its launch, the ID.4 has been selling mediocrely, with the North and South Volkswagens combining to sell just over 1,000 units a month. I personally think that the biggest reason is that there is no Freshness and Visual Impact of Weilai and Tesla at first glance in the car.
However, this does not mean that ID.4 is not fun enough, it actually has a lot of interesting designs. For example, the multi-function buttons of the steering wheel, the air conditioning panel, and the sunroof control are all touch-type, and the gear lever adopts a knob-type pocket block. The central passage is a jumping table double-decker design, the upper level is two cup holders and several storage compartments, and the hollow area below can also fit a pouch.
At the moment when electric vehicles are strongly bound to intelligence, a smart big screen is indispensable. ID.4 center console placed a 12-inch screen, which is the largest screen of the Volkswagen brand at present, Volkswagen also exclusively provided Qualcomm Snapdragon 820A processors for Chinese consumers, and the overseas version of the chip, memory, and storage are one grade lower.
Although the id.4 large-screen hardware is very top,but the built-in MOS4.0 system is not easy to use, the operation logic is complex, not to mention, the interface design almost copied the previous MIB system, further weakening the entire cockpit sense of technology. In terms of intelligent functions, this system is very comprehensive, AutoNavi map, voice control, online music, smart home and other functions are readily available, and the 820A chip also brings a very good operation response and software opening speed.
Compared with Volkswagen's fuel vehicles, the intelligent progress of ID.4 is very large. After the experience, I can also deeply appreciate the determination of the public to transform, but the public should be more radical, or that localization transformation is not enough. On the day of the test drive, the staff of Volkswagen China told me that in the eyes of European consumers, the cockpit and the car machine of ID are very avant-garde, and thus obtained considerable sales, but compared with the electric vehicles in the Chinese market, the advantage of ID has become a disadvantage.
It's very popular to drive
The ID.4 I test drove this time was a four-wheel drive version, with an 80kW and 150kW drive motors on the front and rear axles, and the total torque of the system was 460Nm. For a compact SUV, such power can't give Tesla-like violent acceleration, but there is also some excess. The ID.4 starts briskly and overtakes at high speeds as easy as chopping melons and chopping vegetables. However, what satisfied me most was the handling and chassis, and the outstanding performance deeply reflected Volkswagen's strong car-making skills.
First of all, the ID.4 is very precisely controlled, and the gain of the feedback force is also very linear, with almost no electronic sense. At the same time, the response speed of the front of the car and the follow-up of the rear are very fast.
On the one hand, this kind of control is the embodiment of Volkswagen's rich experience in car manufacturing, and it is also inseparable from the MEB pure electric platform. According to SAIC Volkswagen engineers, due to the smaller size of the electric vehicle power system, the front axle space is more abundant. Therefore, Volkswagen designed a larger steering structure for the ID.4, and the steering ratio was also increased by 16:1 from the 15:1 of the Volkswagen fuel vehicle, which could hedge against the problem of the increase in the turning radius caused by the long wheelbase and improve the handling of the ID.4.
In terms of chassis, the ID.4 continues the usual high-end sense of Volkswagen models, and it has a very good taste of Volkswagen fuel vehicles. Not only is the size of the vibration filter very clean, but the rear section of the suspension is also full of toughness, no matter how fast, it makes people feel flat and stable.
New energy vehicles often do not handle the transition between motor drag and mechanical braking, pedal feedback has a clear sense of ladder, the first half is soft, let people pinch the strength of the brake. The reason for this is that the energy recovery system composed of iBooter + ESP HEV greatly increases the difficulty of calibration of the brake system. But difficult does not mean that it is not good, ID.4 brake pedal feedback is very linear, clear, how much to step on.
However, the MEB platform's use of rear wheel drum brakes has been criticized by consumers. In fact, the brake distance control of the ID.4 is very good, the ID.4 hundred kilometer brake distance of the No. 38 test is 36 meters, and the result of the Auto Home test is 35.7 meters, which is already the upstream level of the same class model. Therefore, "do not look at the advertisement, look at the efficacy", we do not have to struggle with the form of the brake, it is enough to use it.
In addition, the ID.4 is equipped with an L2-level driver assistance system that supports full-speed adaptive cruise, lane centering, blind spot monitoring, and more. In actual experience, the acceleration and deceleration and steering control of this system are very soft, and the recognition of lanes is also more sensitive to the processing of congestion, and the overall performance is still the leading level of the same level.
ID.4 and ID.6, also support AR HUD, display content added to the map information of AutoNavi, in addition to the turn reminder, but also in the upcoming turn, with the turn arrow to remind, and as the corner approaching, the arrow will have a gradually increasing 3D effect. At the same time, the center console also has LED light strips in the form of blue running water lamps, enhanced reminders, the combination of the two functions, not only more convenient, but also very futuristic.
From ID.6 to ID.4, the biggest feeling of these two cars to me is the excellent mechanical quality, at the same time, the inside and outside of the car sheet metal, plastic parts of the splicing assembly process, interior parts of the workmanship is a new force to kill the car. Therefore, even if the products of the ID family are not outstanding enough in terms of intelligence and sense of technology, I still recommend buying.