Come on, put on your suit and let me see what the earth looks like.

In the tropical rain forest of Xishuangbanna, the most dangerous things are not poisonous snakes, insects, rats, ants and mosquitoes, but the original landform that has been maintained for hundreds or even thousands of years, and it is also the most beautiful. Although it's not my first business trip to Xishuangbanna, it's been five years since I entered the tropical rain forest last time. So I didn't know I would be on this trip? What dangerous things are waiting for me in BMW X5 Rainforest Experience Season? ...

I believe everyone has heard a lot about Xishuangbanna, but its full name is Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture (Xishuangbanna means 12,000 rice fields in Dai language, actually referring to 12 administrative regions in feudal times). Located at the southernmost tip of Yunnan Province, China, bordering Myanmar and Laos, this city has the only tropical rain forest nature reserve in China.

Because the local climate is warm and humid, the seasons are like spring, and there are primitive tropical rainforests around (the forest coverage rate reaches 80.8%), there are naturally many rare birds and animals (animal species account for 1/4 of the whole country, such as Asian elephants, vultures, Indo-China butch, bison, antelopes and lazy monkeys, etc. But as the "master" of the earth, I sincerely hope that everyone will not play their mind. No business, no killing.

Of course, in addition to the original rainforest and wild animals, the most famous is definitely the famous Pu 'er ancient tea.

In this regard, I also specially consulted several local friends who like tea. They said that as early as 2000, not many people knew about Pu 'er ancient tea, and the price at that time was 10 yuan/kg. Then from 2002 to 2007, the price of ancient tea only rose to 100~400 yuan/kg, to 20 10, and the price has risen to 1000~ 1500 yuan/kg. Since then, the price of ancient tea has soared. By 20 17, the price of Pu 'er ancient tea has risen to 8000~ 12000 yuan/kg, and it will almost remain at this level in 2020. Even the flagship model of BMW X5 is only 558 yuan /kg, which is the best reason to convince yourself to buy a BMW!

Now back to the topic: "2020 new BMW? X5 Rainforest Experience Season. Maybe many people will ask after reading the headline, why do you want to wear a suit to the rainforest? Actually, I didn't mean to. I believe everyone knows that many hard-core off-road SUVs are not suitable for driving on urban roads or highways for a long time because of their different handling, wind resistance and quiet orientation.

And BMW? X5, as one of the benchmark models of highway luxury SUV, is a multifunctional SUV that can accompany you in the metropolis in suits and ties 80% of the time, and find poems and distant places with you 20% of the time. On this trip through the rainforest, it was because of its xDrive all-wheel drive system and four driving modes that I was able to escape from the muddy road conditions in the dense forest smoothly.

It is said that our first stop is the mysterious virgin rainforest of Mount Keno, where the winding and muddy mountain road has become a new BMW? X5 The goal to be challenged. Because of the new BMW? In addition to the xDrive all-wheel drive system mentioned above, X5 is also equipped with four off-road modes of sand, rock, gravel and ice, and the adaptive double-axle air suspension can provide the driver with an adjustment range of 80mm (which can be adjusted automatically or manually).

In the case of extreme off-road, this air suspension can also be lowered to the limit of 90mm to increase the ability of wheels to slip out of trouble. Although it can't be compared with the extreme off-road performance of hard-core SUVs, such matching equipment has made X5 competent for most moderately difficult off-road scenes.

Following the motorcade, after entering the rainforest, we should keep the distance between cars. On the next slippery steep slope, the new BMW? X5' s HDC steep slope descent function surprised me even more. After adjusting the speed to 3km/h, all I have to do is hold the steering wheel tightly, put my foot on the end and brake for standby. At first, everyone disagreed. Who knows that when the ABS brake system works frequently, the media teacher sitting in the back row has begun to remind him with all kinds of worries.

But the HDC of X5 is really reliable. I just need to trust its processing speed, and I just need to control the steering wheel (because artificial braking will cause the tires to lock for a short time, resulting in uneven sliding speed of the vehicle and uncomfortable passengers). After leaving the steep slope, the system will automatically hide, and when the vehicle encounters the next steep slope, the system will automatically intervene.

At a hairpin turn, because the tires we used were original tires, when the tire patterns were covered with mud, the car began to slip. Although I hit the steering wheel quickly, the car kept sideslip and entered the center of the corner. It's what we often call a drifting posture, except that we are drifting at a low speed. Fortunately, with the help of xDrive's all-wheel drive, we kept the front half of the car moving towards the bending center and kept the direction reversed. With the rear of the car outside, we successfully passed this wet and muddy bend.

After the whole team successfully passed the hard and slippery mountain road, we finally came to the end of the mountain road. At this time, everyone has to get off the bus and start hiking deep into the rainforest. Although I knew I had to climb mountains and wade, I was stumped by the first difficulty just after walking less than 500 meters. To enter the rainforest, we must cross a stream. Naturally, we don't want to get our shoes and pants wet, but after learning that we will cross N rivers in the future, we finally let go of our worries and regain the feeling of returning to nature.

Along the way, we saw all kinds of towering trees, and also saw the devil in the forest "strangle the banyan tree". The seeds of this banyan tree will fall from the sky with bird droppings, then take root and sprout in the soil, then surround the roots of the towering trees next to them, and then twine and grow, competing with the trees for nutrients in the soil and sunshine and space in the sky. Until the tree is finally strangled, it will eat the trunk of the other party as "food" (according to the tour guide, this banyan tree is terrible, and if it can't strangle the other party once, it will continue to grow more trunks until the other party is completely surrounded until the strangulation is successful), which is really like the plot of palace fighting in the plant kingdom.

There are all kinds of nameless insects in the forest, such as super giant mosquito, face spider, crab spider and so on. Anyway, we were all stunned by a group of city people. However, after we witnessed an ancient banyan tree with a history of 1400 years (below), we found that compared with the real "master" of the earth, we humans are really too small. It turns out that such a virgin forest is the true face of the earth.

At the second stop, we drove X5 to Pu 'er to explore the "tea source". Because X5' s 3.0T straight 6 engine, with the cooperation of 8-speed Steptronic gearbox, can output the maximum horsepower of 340 horses and the maximum torque of 450 Nm, and the acceleration of 100 kilometers only takes 5.5 seconds. So on the highway, we can really feel the push-back acceleration when driving X5.

Its power seems to give you a momentum with the support of thousands of troops behind it. On the mountain road of Chashan (there is a pilot car reporting the road condition), we drove the X5 to chop the corner violently, which was simply fun. If you haven't driven the X5 violently on the mountain road, you can't believe that a medium and large SUV can have the sense of control like a car. This is what BMW has always insisted on, and it is also what it looks like (I think this is the best reason why X5 refused to lengthen the body).

While tasting the raw and cooked products, I began to look back quietly. BMW these days? X5 finally got to know BMW after its excellent performance in various road conditions. Why X5, a luxury road SUV, has been in short supply in the same market segment.

No matter how firm its price is, the discount is far less than that of the previous generation, the wheelbase of the car body has not been lengthened, and there is not much advantage in the rear row space. X5 is still ahead of its competitors in sales volume, and accumulated to BMW in September this year. X5' s total sales volume reached 340,365,438+0, and it successfully won the title of luxury SUV of the same class. I only hope that in this year's ice and snow test drive, we will have the opportunity to participate in the activities organized by BMW, so that we can once again deeply experience what driving should be like.

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