It has been more than ten years since BMW X6 and X4 brought the coupe SUV style into consumers' field of vision. Before and after this market, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Acura, Geely, Changan and other brands all brought their own products, but now more manufacturers are laying out this market segment, such as Audi Q3 Sportback, Lectra 05, Renault ARKANA and Guangzhou Automobile Chuanqi GS4 Coupe. The F7x asked by the subject is also a product of Harvard brand aimed at this market layout.
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Before it's too late, how competitive is Haval F7x in this market? Please refer to the following breakdown
Characteristics of potential buyers of coupe SUV
The coupe SUV is a bold stylized transformation based on the conventional SUV, which integrates the elements of sports personality into the conventional SUV. Therefore, the potential buyers of coupe SUVs should like the advantages of good driving vision, large space and strong passability, but they think that ordinary SUVs are too versatile and lack style and personality, and coupe SUVs just meet their needs. Coupe SUV buyers should be younger than conventional SUVs, but have stronger purchasing power. They should pay attention to their own personalized expression, but also consider the needs of their families. Maybe they are a group of young people who can no longer be bohemian.
Main competing products of Haval F7x
The main competing products of Haval F7x should still focus on the domestic independent brand coupe SUV. At present, Changan CS85 and Geely Xingyue have been listed. Great Wall, Chang 'an and Geely are all domestic first-line manufacturers in terms of brands, and they are all concentrated in the same scale and level market in terms of products. The price range here is140,000-150,000, including F7x 2.0T two-wheel drive Jizhi Technology Edition (143,900), Xingyue 300T Yaoxing (148,800) and CS85 2.0T Electric (10).
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Competitiveness comparison
Because this article answers F7x, F7x is the main evaluation subject, and the other two are used as reference for analysis.
Spatial performance: Haval F7x has a wheelbase of 2,725mm, and Xingyue and CS85 are 25mm and 20mm more, respectively. The actual spatial performance of the three is not much different. F7x and CS85 have a flat floor in the back row, while Xingyue has a relatively high protrusion in the middle of the back row.
Power performance: According to the book data, Changan CS85 and Haval F7x are neck and neck, but the moon and the stars are slightly inferior. CS85 has a maximum power of 233 HP and a maximum torque of 350 Nm, while F7x has a maximum power of 224 HP and a maximum torque of 385 Nm. Even the maximum torque platform is close. CS85 is 1750-3500, F7x is. Let's focus on the driving experience of F7x. The power output of F7x is not very tight, but it is comfortable and smooth. It's easy to drive in the city and the gearbox shifts smoothly. I basically can't feel the frustration of the dual-clutch gearbox in the traditional impression. In fact, Haval F7x's gearbox is its second-generation self-developed gearbox, which has the advantages of compact structure, light weight and high transmission efficiency, and has 85 patents/intellectual property rights.
Of course, if you have friends who like to speed up at traffic lights, you can consider the new performance version of F7x.
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The performance version optimizes the performance of the gearbox and removes the torque protection of 1-3 gear, so that it can withstand the maximum torque of 450 Nm. According to official estimates, the acceleration of 100 kilometers can reach 6.6 seconds, and the acceleration of SUV can reach 6.6 seconds, which is still terrible. This result is quite fast for cars of the same price. Civic's official second acceleration score is only 8.5 seconds. At the same time, this car is also equipped with a retrained exhaust sound and a matching ejection start function, so that you can go out and talk about your homesickness in a second while driving the F7x.
Configuration performance: F7x is the only one among the three equipped with a full set of driver assistance system. TJA traffic jam assistance in intelligent transportation assistance system can help realize 0-60km/h car-following variable lane driving, and can relieve the trouble of stopping the brake throttle indefinitely at low speed. ICA intelligent cruise assist can realize 60- 150km/h lane centering or car-following cruise. It can realize the cruising when the vehicle passes through the urban expressway or expressway quickly, and relieve the pain of the right foot stepping on the accelerator for a long time. At the same time, there are LCK lane centering, LKA lane keeping and LDW lane departure warning systems, which can avoid the dangerous situation of lane departure caused by fatigue driving or distraction at 40-140 km/h.
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Intelligent parking system can be applied to side parking and reverse parking, and you don't have to endure the disgusting eyes of the security uncle in the parking garage anymore.
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In fact, I understand that the most important function of intelligent driving at this stage is not to relax the driver, but to give the driver as much safety as possible. Some consumers believe in their driving skills and find these auxiliary systems useless. In fact, as long as these auxiliary systems can help at special times, the value that may be recovered far exceeds the cost paid for this system.
Mobile phone interconnection is also a unique configuration of F7x, which can realize the interaction between the central control screen and the dual screens of mobile phone and instrument. Mobile phone remote control can realize the function of starting the air conditioner and opening and closing the door remotely. Its voice control system comes from the national backbone Iflytek voice, with the highest recognition rate of 97% at the same level, and it can understand 20 dialects.
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Other advantageous configurations of F7x mainly include full LCD instrument, wireless charging of mobile phone, OTA upgrade, adaptive far and near light, etc. From the perspective of superior configuration, F7x has a high level of technological configuration.
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Back to the topic, if you want the high passability, large space and good driving vision of an SUV, but you don't want to drive a "square" SUV like dad, and at the same time you want to enjoy the achievements brought by technology to car travel as much as possible, then F7x is worth starting with.