As we all know, since China officially formulated the "carbon neutrality" goal in 2020, the competition in the new energy market has entered a "white-hot" stage, especially for traditional domestic car companies, which are facing pressure in addition to foreign brands such as Tesla, as well as the impact of technology-based enterprises such as new car-making forces.
In fact, in order to solve the problem of transitioning from fuel vehicles to pure electric vehicles, many car companies have launched sub-brands to enhance user recognition and erect a new image, and Chery "Fengyun" is a series born in this context.
In fact, the beginning of Chery's "Fengyun" family can be traced back to the end of the nineties of the last century, which was the first mass-produced model of the Chery brand, and also knocked on the door of China's household sedan market. Now, Chery has once again used the word "Fengyun" as the name of the new energy vehicle series, which naturally expresses the good expectations of the entire brand to continue to move forward and open up a new historical situation.
However, judging from its product matrix, the "Fengyun" series does not seem to have brought many surprises except for the two concept cars unveiled at the press conference. The recent pre-sale of Fengyun A8 is more like the Arrizo 8 after the "oil to electricity" version, and has aroused doubts in the market.
First of all, from the appearance point of view, the design between Chery Fengyun A8 and Arrizo 8 is highly similar, and even the lines of the front face and the body contour have not changed much, so you can distinguish the difference between the two from a distance. In terms of overall size, since the chassis needs to accommodate a more energetic battery, the Fengyun A8 has increased its body height by 20 mm compared to the former, and the rest of the parameters are almost the same.
Of course, if you simply define Fengyun A8 as "oil to electricity", it seems a bit far-fetched. Because according to the previously announced chassis configuration, the rear suspension of Fengyun A8 adopts a torsion beam type non-independent structure, and this design will only appear in models within 100,000 yuan. However, according to industry insiders, because the body structure of Fengyun A8 has not changed, the torsion beam suspension is to make room for the chassis to arrange important components such as fuel tanks, batteries, and exhaust pipes, so it chooses to sacrifice some comfort.
Secondly, at the ** level, although the chassis structure has become simpler, and the appearance is highly similar to that of fuel vehicles, the price has always remained firm. According to the official announcement, Fengyun A8 currently announced the pre-sale price of 13000000 to 15000000, there is quite a momentum to benchmark the dark blue SL03.
However, as a fuel version of the Arrizo 8, the official guide price is only 10890,000 to 14690,000. In other words, the entry-level configuration of the Fengyun A8 is almost on par with the top configuration of the Arrizo 8, and this pricing method inevitably gives people the illusion of "cutting leeks".
Automobile network review: many products of Fengyun are highly similar to fuel vehicles
Regarding the suspicion of Chery Fengyun series "oil to electricity", I think that not only the single model of Fengyun A8, but also many of its upcoming products can find corresponding prototypes in the fuel vehicle market. For example, the Fengyun T6 corresponds to the Exploration 06, and the Fengyun T9 is quite similar to the Tiggo 9. It's just that in this era of rampant new cars, in order to catch up with the market heat, Chery has launched a series of hybrid products based on existing modelsThe author believes that it still needs to be left to the market to decide.