Changan Mazda new product dynamics:
The CX-80 design patent drawing was released, and the car will be unveiled in the first half of the year, and pre-sales are expected to start in the second half of the year.
Recently, Changan Mazda has made frequent moves, not only with the new car planning of CX-80, but also with the registration of the CX-90 trademark; It can be seen that Mazda is aiming to hit the mid-to-high-end car market, but there are always technical obstacles, and if you only rely on internal combustion engines and automatic transmissions, the new CX-80 will undoubtedly run from Hiroshima to Nagasaki - the future is still uncertain.
Let's start with the design patent drawing.
Mazda has never been a cause for concern when it comes to design, and it is still necessary to give good reviews to the exterior design of cars such as the Nexera, Atez or CX-50 (Yukiya). The CX-80 should adopt Mazda's brand design scheme, and it will have a slender body if it is not rear-wheel drive, and the rear-sinking stance will look sporty and calm. Therefore, the focus on this car is still the power system, and the overseas version of the car has determined two sets of power systems, one of which is 33T-L6 (inline six-cylinder) engine, the second is 2A plug-in hybrid system with a 5L e-CVT. The competitiveness of these two power systems is not very strong, although the performance of large-displacement turbocharged engines can be very surging, but the fuel consumption is also high; The positioning of Mazda vehicles should not be too high, and the **sinking to the mid-range car ** belt or high-end car ** threshold, its ** belt users are often difficult to accept high fuel consumption. So the key version of this car is the plug-in hybrid version, but the Toyota hybrid technology it uses is also not optimistic, after all, even Toyota itself has not yet created a best-selling plug-in hybrid car.
It is not enough to simply use a large-displacement engine, and the current large-displacement fuel vehicles are like battleships, which are already in the process of being eliminated; Toyota's hybrid technology is difficult to break through, so the Mazda CX-80 needs a new hybrid system.
Changan Mazda has an SUV model with the internal code name J90AAmong them is also "J90A-REEV".
REEV refers to extended-range hybrid technology, and current car companies will no longer be equipped with non-plug-in hybrid platforms; In other words, the J90A-REEV will be a plug-in range extender hybrid car, and Mazda has previously launched a plug-in range extender car that uses a rotary engine, so it is possible that the CX-80 will use this powertrain.
However, the hybrid platform used in the domestic version of the Mazda J90A SUV is Changan Automobile**, that is, Changan EPA hybrid architecture.
If the J90A SUV uses this powertrain, and if the J90A SUV is the CX-80, then the car is stable. Because of the dark blue SL03, S7, and Changan Qiyuan A07 in Changan Automobile's sub-brands, these three cars use the EPA1 architecture, and these three cars perform very well in terms of performance, power and handling; The point is that the sales performance is also good, so once the Mazda CX-80 uses the same extended-range hybrid and pure electric platform, its starting point has already gained a solid foundation, and the performance of the two major brands of Deep Blue and Kaiyuan is the foundation of Mazda.
Referring to the image below, this is the midsize SUV S7 of the Navy brand.
*: Assuming that the CX-80 finally chooses the EPA plug-in extended range hybrid and pure electric platform, the model size is large enough and the configuration is high enough, **positioning is on par with the CX-8, then Changan Mazda will officially enter a new stage; The car can be benchmarked against the M7 and Li L7, and Mazda's design skills are likely to create a true mid-to-high-end bestseller. However, Mazda has also said that it will launch a plug-in hybrid model in 2025, so there may not be a new model launched this year, and the extended-range hybrid model will have a long warm-up cycle.
How to achieve a smooth transition in 2024 is the most noteworthy topic for Mazda Motor this year.
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