Comfortable type can arm-wrestle with urban SUV to test drive Changan pickup truck.

Not long ago (165438+1October 10), Browse Extension, a pickup truck model owned by Changan Automobile, officially opened for pre-sale, with a pre-sale price of 99,900-153,900. As a heavyweight pickup truck product of Changan Automobile, the browser will form a competitive relationship with Great Wall Gun after listing. At present, there are many 65438+ million-class pickups in the domestic market, but only a handful can shine. With the endorsement of Changan Automobile Factory, can visitors become domestic pickup trucks? Want to know the answer, test drive is inevitable.

Arriving at the test drive site in Dali, Yunnan, visitors lined up neatly, which I didn't feel during the live broadcast of the conference. Compared with the official maps and promotional videos released before, the visitors' real cars are more "burly". The high engine compartment and matte black wheel brow trim create a full sense of strength. Our test drive this time is the gasoline version of the standard axle four-wheel drive model, and the pre-sale price is 140900 yuan. Powertrain is a new generation 2.0T engine of Blue Whale that we are familiar with, but it has been adjusted according to the usage scene of pickup truck, so that visitors have better low torque performance and ZF 8AT gearbox matching the transmission system.

Comfort is comparable to that of a city SUV. Who says pickup trucks can't be used at home? The browser equipped with four-wheel drive system further expands the off-road ability and usage scenarios. During the test drive, half of the routes are unpaved, half a meter deep pits can be seen everywhere, and the washboard road is from beginning to end. The browser is equipped with Borgwarner's four-wheel drive system, providing 2H, 4L and automatic modes, which can be controlled by the knob of the center console. Automatic mode can be used in most road sections. This mode can judge the switching between four-wheel drive and two-wheel drive according to the grip of four tires. When encountering bullet holes, the force can be concentrated on the tires with grip, and the vehicle can easily get out of trouble with low twist. When the road conditions are good, switch to the two-wheel drive mode to maximize fuel economy and control experience.

What attracts me most is not only its all-terrain ability, but also its excellent comfort when paving roads, which even makes me sometimes forget that I am driving a pickup truck. With the help of the front double wishbone/rear five-bar integral bridge suspension, visitors have the comfort comparable to that of urban SUVs, rather than the feeling familiar to pickup truck users. This adjustment is the key to the browser's freedom from "business". After all, its target users don't play salad every day, but spend more time as a family transportation tool.

Surfers are also comfortable when cruising at low, medium and high speeds. The familiar Blue Whale 2.0T engine, after re-adjustment, the throttle response is still positive, and it has not been dragged down by the huge body. When the accelerator is stepped on one-third of the vehicles, it can react quickly and output surging power, and it is not insufficient when five people are fully loaded uphill. Although the medium-high speed is neither fast nor strong, it reflects the stability that a pickup truck should have. With ZF 8AT gearbox, cruising is more comfortable and comfortable, without the tension of driving a "behemoth".

Speaking of high-speed cruise performance, the NVH performance of explorers is also very competitive in the same class. Except for the slight engine roar, the wind noise and tire noise control are excellent, unlike pickup products. You know, pickup trucks have a larger windward area than SUVs, a longer suspension stroke, and wind noise is not easy to control. The engineer who knows this well added an acoustic sound insulation package to the whole vehicle at 127, and the idle speed was muted by 37.5 decibels, which once again strengthened the household attributes of the vehicle.

The aesthetic design of mountains and rivers provides long-axis and short-axis versions. After the test drive, let's talk about the appearance. The browser adopts Changan's brand-new "Mountain and River Aesthetic Design Language", which is more suitable for its pickup product attributes. The huge inverted trapezoidal air intake grille on the front face has the family style of Changan Automobile, and the chrome trim strips inside are staggered, showing a lattice layout, which is very imposing. LED light sources are used in the light groups on both sides, which can provide better lighting capability for pickup trucks with wider application range. More notably, the explorer added a horizontal light band in the middle of the lamp group, which formed a penetrating effect. Although it is not unusual in SUV products, as a pickup truck model, the combination and collision of this sense of technology and strength does have a unique charm.

On the side of the car body, as a pickup truck, the proportion of passenger compartment and cargo compartment is very harmonious, taking into account the attributes of domestic and commercial vehicles. The front and rear rims are multi-spoke and two-color rims, which are similar in shape to petals and matched with matte black wheel eyebrows, making visitors look very imposing. In terms of fuselage size, we got the short-axis model this time, with the length, width and height of 5350/ 1930/ 1875mm respectively, while the long-axis model has the length, width and height of 5600/ 1930/ 1875mm respectively. In fact, the main difference between different wheelbase is the space improvement of cargo hold. The cargo hold size of the short-axis version is 1600/ 1595/500mm, and that of the long-axis version is 1850/ 1595/500mm. Not much to say about the tail shape. The vertical taillights used in most pickup products are also blackened, and the white letter "Chang 'an" indicates strong recognition.

A new benchmark for smart pickups! Entering the car, a large number of leather packages make visitors feel luxurious without losing the city SUV, and it is also finely decorated in the pickup truck. Although the seat is wide, it is high enough, and the wings also provide enough package and support to prevent me from being shaken on off-road sections. The key point is that the main driver is also equipped with 6-way electric adjustment, and the auxiliary driver is equipped with 4-way electric adjustment, and both support seat heating. Can you believe this is a 65438+ 10,000-class pickup truck? This configuration is worthwhile even in a city SUV.

As a pickup product that takes into account the needs of families and young users, the browser is also equipped with a large-size dual screen, which has obvious advantages in the same level. Built-in Changan's latest generation car system, using MT8666 chip, the computing power reaches 2 trillion times per second, which makes the car system run more smoothly. The function is also very rich. In addition to regular weather and music functions, it also provides localized apps such as singing, downwind ears, and personalized apps such as pickup maps, which can meet the needs of current user teams and smart travel.

The browser chooses the current mainstream Iflytek system for voice control, which supports powerful interactive capabilities such as multi-dialogue, context recognition and cross-scene recognition, but does not support no wake-up. For a pickup truck, it is completely enough, even a little smart.

Write it at the end

As the star of hope that Changan Automobile believes can promote category innovation, Changan Browser has not lost its product strength, which allows the author to experience more gameplay of domestic pickup trucks in the new era, get rid of the "pull goods" label of traditional domestic pickup trucks, and meet the diverse scene needs of users. Before the dinner, we also statically experienced the official models such as off-road version, fishing version and camping version of visitors, showing us the great potential of pickup truck as a small market. With the further liberalization of the domestic pickup truck policy, I believe that more and more users will start looking for their own pickup truck life, and spectators will certainly bring you the freedom and carefree to feel at home in every corner of the world.

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