Some people say that Hengda’s car production is a complete joke, a cover-up for real estate developers to converge on land under the name of car production. Now, this Hengda car production that many people see as a joke has a sequel.
As Hengda’s first pure electric SUV, Hengda Hengchi 5 took 50,000 orders in ten hours during the May Day holiday. The situation on the media side is that this is very mysterious. After all, the phone numbers related to Hengchi are all empty or cannot be connected. Are you saying it is true or false? Further news is that Hengda is recruiting dealers recently, and it seems that Hengchi 5 is really ready to sell at this time.
The styling design is very "Zhongtai". Can Hengda Hengchi 5 be sold?
The Hengchi 5 is positioned as a compact SUV, with an estimated price range of 15-240,000 yuan. As the first model of Hengda’s car, Hengda Hengchi 5 has already made some demonstrations in dealer channels. Last month, Hengda Hengchi 5 appeared in the Guangzhou Evergrande Center. Boss Xu came to experience the exterior and interior of the car in person, and applauded: "Beautiful! So beautiful!" Let’s see how beautiful it is.
The exterior design of Hengchi 5 is full of technology, and the interior and configuration are also in line with the mainstream of new car forces. First of all, in terms of overall appearance, Hengchi 5 really looks like a Cayenne. MyAUTO often wonders, have all the original Zotye engineers been poached by Evergrande? As an electric SUV, the front face of Hengda Hengchi 5 adopts a closed air intake grille, and the "7" headlights on both sides are very bright.
The side of Hengda Hengchi 5 can be seen that the new car adopts a two-color design, with black paint on the roof and windows A, B, C pillars and the bottom part of the body. The hidden door handles and five-spoke rims are all full of new car design concepts. In terms of body size, the length, width and height of the new car are 4725mm/1925mm/1676mm, and the wheelbase is 2780mm. This size is not large in the same class, but the interior space will not appear crowded.
The rear design of Hengda Hengchi 5 is relatively simple, and the tail light echoes the LED running light design on the front face. It is also a "7" font design, and a chrome-plated decorative strip runs through the rear of the car to connect the two tail lights.
If you look at the design alone, MYAUTO believes that Hengda Hengchi 5 is much better than the Zotye version of Porsche. At least in terms of design, Hengda Hengchi 5 is only somewhat similar to the real Porsche Cayenne, and Hengda Hengchi 5 still has its unique side.
Triple screen design, is there anything playable besides the screen?
In terms of interior design, the most eye-catching feature is the screen that runs from the main driver to the co-pilot. The 10.25-inch instrument panel, the 14.6-inch central control screen, and the 10.25-inch co-pilot screen are the first things you see anyway. This is the screen that slips away, so it can be seen that Evergrande is really losing money by not making LCD TVs and LCD monitors.
In addition to being cool, this design may not feel very good to use. We have said before that in the case of strong light, especially in the central control area, it is easy to appear reflective, so this design is not very comprehensive. The armrest under the central control is a brushed panel with some physical buttons distributed on it, and the middle platform in the back part is flat, so the space looks ok. The car is mainly black and wrapped in soft materials, which is simple and atmospheric as a whole.
Zero hundred acceleration for nearly eight seconds, Hengchi 5 against GAC Toyota bZ4X?
In terms of power, the total power of the Hengchi 5 motor is 150kW, the total torque is 345N · m, and the comprehensive cruising range is 602km. These parameters sound very good. But the zero-hundred acceleration of this product is 7.8 seconds, which is almost on par with the GAC Toyota bZ4X with a zero-hundred acceleration of 8.4 seconds.
It stands to reason that electric vehicles will naturally outperform fuel models in terms of zero-hundred acceleration, which is an important factor that MYAUTO has been very unconcerned about the GAC Toyota bZ4X. Although Hengda Hengchi 5 is slightly ahead of the GAC Toyota bZ4X in terms of performance, it is difficult to find a similar product in BYD, let alone compare with Tesla.
Like the GAC Toyota bZ4X, Hengda Hengchi 5 also uses lithium iron phosphate batteries from the Ningde era. It is said that the new car will be equipped with more than L2 level driving assistance functions. Although Hengda Hengchi 5 seems to be able to compete with BYD Song PLUS and other models at the peak, I am afraid it is not very good to compete with Tesla as Boss Xu said.
Building a car is just the beginning, and the follow-up funding is the battle of life and death for Hengchi 5
After all, Hengchi 5 won the German IF Design Award, but this award can be won by any work that meets the evaluation criteria, but the contestants only need to pay a large amount of entry fees, which is understandable. In terms of the interior, we have also mentioned the shortcomings of the through-screen. The passenger’s screen seems to be forced into it in an effort to distinguish it from other brands of electric vehicles. If you look closely, you will feel that its interior is a bit like a Mercedes-Benz, especially the center armrest. However, it is not without praise. We have said that it retains some physical buttons at the center armrest, which is still very practical. After all, all electric vehicles do not retain the vehicle start button.
At the beginning of the layout, Boss Xu’s overly high profile lost the opportunity to gain market trust. Coupled with the series of operations that followed, it made everyone feel that he was playing with capital and taking a concept. Now that the car is really made, the sales trend of Hengchi 5 seems to determine the life and death of Hengchi cars. Fifty thousand units are blindly set in ten hours. This number is already scary enough. If Hengda’s bosses can insist on live broadcast every day and achieve the small goal of 50,000 units each time, Hengda will sell more cars in one year than the sum of other domestic car companies. The question is, Hengda Hengchi 5, okay?.
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