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If you ask me, what is the real Jiangnan lifestyle in your mind?
I will put the coordinates back to two historical time nodes: one is the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the other is the Southern Song.
was also an age of turbulent and unsettling travel to the south. It was also the Central Plains people who came from the north to the south, but they all used a fusion attitude of outsiders to jointly create economic and cultural prosperity, and shape the nature and humanities of Jiangnan The social life styles that are mutually exclusive.
This changing creation and reshaping not only has a classical and orderly side, for example, it represents the clans and nobles who compete with the king's power, and the profound humanistic and historical traditions inherited by them; it also has a modern and open side, such as nothing. Whether it is the Wei-Jin demeanor or the humanistic Southern Song, both means a free and liberal attitude towards life, and it is also a rare ideological liberation under the historical context of a unified history.
It is the interweaving and interlocking collision and fusion of these two dimensions that have created the Jiangnan life that has fascinated so many people for thousands of years-both full of humanistic charm and full of fireworks.
At the moment, the automotive industry is also experiencing changes unseen in a century. After a century of evolution, the car travel life has also come to a crossroads of change. Changes are not in the middle, what kind of creation and reshaping are the pioneers doing?
A few days ago, the BMW iX3 that we met in Xitang, Jiaxing, and the classic and modern Jiangnan lifestyle, helped us find effective clues to this question.
is a new birth,
is happening from the inside out. If you want to enter the real Jiangnan lifestyle, you naturally need some concrete environments and places. The Liangyang Hotel, located in the ancient town of Xitang, Jiaxing, is the venue for the first test drive of the iX3 by BMW Brilliance. The name of the hotel
is taken from the Icelandic word næra. The Chinese meaning is: nourish, nurture, and give nourishment. It means to treat every guest with kind and beautiful arrangements. Consistent with this internal concept is the external architectural effort. This building that combines tradition and modernity was created by a local architect, Liu Yikang. In the words of the architect,
said, “We went to Xitang to record and refine every element, including roof slope, horse head wall, wood, etc. We hope to transform the past elements into modern language and space, and integrate them into Xitang. The local elements use old tiles to transform the big roof into several small roofs, and combine them with the indoor space. The horse head wall is more modern, with more white space, so that the space has both traditional elements and overall Modern."
is modern in thought and spirit, embracing tradition and merging into the region in form and aesthetics. The good land of Xitang allows us to see a kind of Jiangnan living style and continuous "new life" efforts in life aesthetics. On the one hand, the courtyards, gardens, and landscapes are familiar external elements in the south of the Yangtze River. On the other hand, the contemporary art collection and the advocacy of environmentally friendly organic food are also an inner concern for the inner, physical, and spiritual settlement of contemporary people.
is a fresh new born with a brand new internal and calm appearance, which is also the product logic and underlying thinking embodied in the BMW iX3.
First of all, from the visual impression of appearance, in addition to the closed air intake grille, the blue plaque that replaces the exhaust pipe, the charging port located under the left A-pillar and other details that indicate the identity of the pure electric vehicle, iX3 sees It does not change much from the fuel version of the X3. However, when you hold an iPhone with NFC function close to it, you can easily unlock the door immediately, and when you can start the car with one key on the wireless charging pad, you will instantly feel that iX3 is a sufficiently interconnected and smart Smart cars.
Secondly, the internal changes are of course not only to say goodbye to the convenience details such as physical keys, but also to become a real smart electric car, and the "new three pieces"-electric drive system, automatic driving and human The substantial progress and innovation of computer interaction.
In the three-electric system, the iX3 adopts the fifth-generation BMW eDrive electric drive technology. The total capacity of the 811 nickel-cobalt-manganese ternary lithium battery pack reaches 80kWh. The power density is increased by about 30% compared with the previous generation technology, and the output can be 400Nm from the start. The maximum torque and the maximum output power reach 210kW, bringing pure electric linear and quiet acceleration fun, while the lowest energy consumption per 100 kilometers has reached the level of 16.7kWh.
in autonomous drivingIn terms of capabilities, the BMW Automated Driving Assistant System Pro, which is now widely used in all new cars and has the highest four-level score for Euro NCAP autopilot technology, has also become standard on iX3. In the current intelligent electric vehicle L2 and L2.5 level automatic driving function competition, the iX3 is an enhanced driver assistance system, especially the lane change assistance function that can automatically change lanes by turning the turn signal on the highway. Urban congestion Under road conditions, the traffic jam assist function that the vehicle can automatically follow the vehicle in front is impressive.
In terms of human-machine interconnection and human-vehicle interaction, the latest version of "BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant" improves the accuracy of voice control of various functions. The biggest advantage of this human-computer interaction system is the compatibility of a series of commonly used apps around user needs. If you want mobile phone mapping, you can choose between App CarPlay and Baidu CarLife. If you want to listen to audio or watch video, You can choose between QQ music, Himalayan or Watermelon video. The change of
stems from the unchanging pursuit
If we say that the Wei-Jin demeanor and the humanities of the Southern Song Dynasty are huge changes compared to the previous generation, then, compared to the traditional Jiangnan lifestyle, what is the beauty of contemporary life?
For those of us who live in the 21st century and have fully integrated into the Internet, the following will probably be the basic common options. The richness brought by personalization, the convenience brought by online, and the environmental protection and zero emission bring. The zero burden of the company, the sense of security brought about by more security, etc.
is like the good soil hotel itself that will make people feel familiar, and quite innovative inside. In fact, it is in the process of creation and change, maintaining a certain constant pursuit of constant value.
From the level of actual driving experience, this logic also applies to the BMW iX3, a brand-new driving machine created by a century-old luxury brand.
The zero emission, long battery life, high energy efficiency, and intelligent features of the iX3 mentioned in the previous article are clearly the i-series pure electric models. Compared with the fuel version of the BMW models, many changes and innovations are more advanced. However, in the insistence on driving pleasure, which is the core gene of the BMW brand, iX3 clearly has some persistence and perseverance.
In the test drive section of more than 200 kilometers from Jiaxing to Suzhou and the closed field test drive subjects, the chassis tuning and power output level that BMW has always been good at iX3 is naturally not a problem. What's more rare is that the common driving characteristics of ordinary electric vehicles such as low center of gravity, light steering, and rapid acceleration. At the same time, they may also make the driving experience of electric vehicles more mediocre. BMW engineers have done more in-depth , Exquisite and attentive processing, so that iX3 is not just blindly seeking speed and energy, but retaining the driving characteristics of BMW vehicles that have always been able to communicate with the driver and even compete with each other. This point of
can be fully demonstrated in other details besides being fully stimulated in subjects such as emergency course change and dynamic pile winding of the simulated track. For example, the electric sound wave created by the top Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer brings the imagination of a space-like driving machine to the iX3. The essence behind it is still the understanding and following of the BMW driving tradition by the engineer team.
Of course, if I had to pick an improvement opinion on driving experience, it would undoubtedly be the B-speed single-pedal driving mode. This driving mode, which has been adopted from the BMW i3 and is also commonly seen on other brands of electric vehicles, has a cruising range of 500km+ today, and there is no need to keep it for energy recovery. After all, when you raise the accelerator pedal and quickly enter the braking and energy recovery mode, the obvious frustration will not bring much driving pleasure.
Conclusion: There is a saying in
, "All meeting by the water is a long-lost reunion." The encounter with the BMW iX3 in Xitang in the misty rain reminds me of the affectionate verse of the Syrian poet Adonis:
When I sink my eyes into your eyes
I glimpse the deep dawn
I see the ancient yesterday
I can’t comprehend. Everything
I feel the universe is flowing
between your eyes and me.
is exactly the meaning and artistic conception contained in the verse, which is suitable for marking the iX3 in the BMW brand product sequence in transition.The location is between the tradition of yesterday and the new realm of the future, between the "dark night" of traditional fuel vehicles and the "dawn" of the new four modernizations. In the process of
, just like the fusion temperament presented by the Yanyu Jiangnan in Xitang, Jiaxing, a lifestyle that is both classic and modern has arrived quickly and will eventually change customs.
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