In North America, pickup trucks are also an ordinary family car, and their status is much higher than that of cars and SUVs. However, pickup trucks have not been regarded as a mainstream product in China. Its consumer groups are very limited. Most of them are some engineering companies or construction sites that have demand for such vehicles. Because there are too many restrictions on domestic pickup trucks, and the people's impression of pickup trucks has always been relatively low-end, pickup trucks are becoming more and more niche in China.
However, since last year, the transportation department has implemented a new "decentralization, regulation and service" policy, and some areas have lifted restrictions on pickup trucks, which also stimulated pickup truck sales to a certain extent. Many domestic car companies have also seen the potential of the pickup truck market, so they have launched their own pickup truck models. The Great Wall Cannon series launched by Great Wall took more than 100,000 units off the assembly line in just one year, becoming the mainstream of domestic pickup trucks. As the most insightful enterprise in China, Geely will naturally not let go of such a market with great potential. Therefore, Geely has also reached a pickup truck, which has now entered the pre-sale stage. But after seeing the actual car of this car, many consumers couldn't help but complain. Did this create a "four dissimilarity"?
Geely’s pickup truck is called Long Range FX. Many people think that this car is like Geely Boyue with a body added to the back. It is simply a "suicide" product. Because this car is built on the Geely Boyue platform, its front face looks similar to Geely Boyue, and even most of the molds have not been replaced. The front of the
remote FX is a familiar shield-type air intake grille, but it is replaced with a black straight waterfall-style center grid and remote logo. The side of the body also looks like an SUV model, but the opening method of the trunk has been changed to make the trunk open. Moreover, the capacity of this car body is not large, its net length is only 1125mm, it is estimated that it is very difficult to enlarge the parts.
In addition, the pre-sale price of this car is not cheap. The entry-level model costs 126,900 yuan, and the high-end version reaches 136,900 yuan. With such a value and such a price, I don’t know how many people want to try. .
The power of this car is also very "homely". The remote FX series is equipped with a 1.8T turbocharged gasoline engine with a maximum output of 184 horsepower and a maximum torque of 300 Nm. It is matched with a 7-speed dual-clutch gearbox. This is also a domestic independent brand The first pickup truck equipped with dual clutches in China. This car has not yet provided a four-wheel drive system, and it has no off-road capability at all. But on the other hand, its rival, the Great Wall, not only has a home version, a commercial version, but also an off-road version, and is equipped with a timely four-wheel drive system. The vehicle can switch between two-wheel drive, timely four-wheel drive, and low-speed four-wheel drive. The
vehicle suspension is a front Macpherson-style independent suspension and a rear multi-link independent suspension. The body has no girder structure. If you load too much weight in the rear, it may affect the frame of the whole vehicle. So taking these aspects together, Geely Remote FX is a very strange pickup truck. Said it is a pickup truck, but its entire compartment is built according to SUV, even the chassis suspension is the design of SUV.
can be said to be an SUV, but this car has the same rear body as a pickup truck, and it is indeed stronger than an SUV in terms of loading capacity. So after the debut of this car, many people didn't quite understand what purpose did Geely build such a car for?
Geely Remote FX was originally called the "domestic Raptor", but after seeing its car, it was found that it lacked some of the wildness of the Raptor, and its overall temperament was more like a family car. Geely may just want to use this kind of passenger thinking to break the limitations of domestic pickup trucks, but I don't know whether this route can successfully break the game and gain consumers' love.
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