With the gradual progress, now the car can no longer be regarded as a luxury, more it just plays the role of a consumable, and some performance cars have also been suppressed, it is no exaggeration to say that now only a budget of about 150,000 can buy a model with a relatively strong performance output. And this time we bring you this model, its official guide price is 108-15.80,000 yuan, it is the GAC Trumpchi Shadow Leopard, known as the "small steel cannon". There are currently 8 models of the car on sale, and the model we experienced this time is its top-of-the-line model, the 2023 Shadow Leopard 400T Automatic R Max Edition (hereinafter referred to as the Shadow Leopard R).
This time we experience this Shadow Leopard R,From the name of the car, you can see that its main focus is performance,Therefore, in terms of exterior design,The design of the car is more public,In terms of the front of the car,It adopts a split grille design,And the grille is also treated with black coating,At the same time, there is a red R logo in the interior of the mountain,It still looks very eye-catching,At the same time, in terms of the lamp group,Although its design is decent,But the light source design inside the lamp group is still relatively individual,Officially called the lion claw light source,Therefore, the recognition after lighting is still very secure。
When it comes to the side, the body posture of the Shadow Leopard R is very low, and the design of the double waist line and the fastback body posture also further enhance the sporty texture of the vehicle, and at the same time, in terms of wheels and mirrors, the car also adopts a blackened treatment, which is still more prominent in terms of visual effect. But if I want to say, its most visually striking place is still in the rear, its tail is equipped with a wide black rear wing, and this rear wing is still the original design, and the rear surround is also blackened, and also has a more exaggerated shape of the diffuser, coupled with the bilateral four-out exhaust layout, people can see at a glance that it is a main performance model.
In addition to a certain degree of dynamism in the appearance, in terms of interior design, the design of the Shadow Leopard R is also very combative. First of all, it adopts a wrap-around cockpit design in the car, and it is also relatively solid in terms of materials, like the center console, it is wrapped in leather material, with silver chrome decorative strips and through-type air conditioning outlets, which still have a good guarantee in terms of fashion and high-end texture. In addition, in terms of the gear handle, the car also adopts the aircraft gear handle design, and the gear handle is also decorated with imitation carbon fiber, which further enhances the combat atmosphere of the interior, and at the same time, in terms of technological texture, it also uses two pieces of 10The 25-inch screen is equipped with basic functions such as navigation, Internet of Vehicles, OTA, facial recognition, voice and control systems.
It is worth mentioning that don't look at this Shadow Leopard R looks like a "performance car", in terms of riding space, its performance is not weak, thanks to the wheelbase of 2736 mm and the body length of 4753 mm, with my height 175 meters, for example, has a distance of less than 2 fists in the back row, and the headroom does not appear to be stretched because of the fastback body posture, and it also has a distance of about three fingers, so there is no big problem with normal riding. In addition, in terms of ride comfort, the performance of the Shadow Leopard R is really wrong, and its seats use integrated sports style seats, and the middle of the seat is still made of suede. This kind of material avoids the embarrassing situation of "hot butt in summer and east butt in winter" of the seat.
The Shadow Leopard R we experienced this time uses 2With the power combination of 0T+8AT, the engine can bring a maximum output of 195kW and a maximum output torque of 400N·m to the vehicle. According to official data, it can reach a top speed of 230km h, and its 000 acceleration is 57 seconds. In addition, the Shadow Leopard R is also equipped with the Bosch ESP10 system, which also has a good improvement in body stability. And in this test drive, this Shadow Leopard R gave me a lot of shock when it started to accelerate, just step on the accelerator lightly, you can feel the strong power output, and when the speed of the car rises, its push back feeling is also very obvious, at the same time in the city road, its steering wheel is precise in direction, the steering position is not very serious, and when accelerating and overtaking halfway, there will be no dizziness in the car.
In addition, its gearbox performance is also good, in the process of shifting gears, its enthusiasm is still relatively high, and there will be no feeling of power delay, and at the same time in the performance of frustration, Shadow Leopard R can not be said to be no, but it is still relatively small, the only pity is that the car is not very good in quiet performance, in the noisy downtown area, there will still be a lot of noise in the car. As for the chassis, the Shadow Leopard R may be due to the performance-oriented tuning, and its chassis is more in place when filtering fine bumps, but when it encounters speed bumps, the shaking feeling in the car is still very obvious.
Conclusion
I have to say that as a cheap performance car, although in terms of handling and power output, it can not be compared with those old performance cars, but from its body, we still see that the rise of domestic performance cars is still unstoppable, and in addition to power performance, this Shadow Leopard R is not inferior to traditional performance cars in terms of appearance design and interior design, so in the future market, Shadow Leopard R will definitely have a certain competitiveness. In addition, this Trumpchi Shadow Leopard currently has a supreme 2The discount of 10,000 yuan, of course, is mainly based on the local 4S store.