New energy vehicles have created a series of complex purchase processes, from blind ordering to large ordering, and finally picking up the car may be as short as half a year and as long as more than a year. If some car companies don't have endorsements from big manufacturers, it will really make people feel that manufacturers are raising funds by spending money indiscriminately, raising funds and learning Internet marketing.

SAIC Smart Machine is really a rare player in the new energy market. The smart machine LS7 went on the market in February this year, and the delivery ceremony actually blossomed all over the country one month later. Speed made me realize that as a car media, the test drive was actually later than the first group of car users. This positively shows the degree of participation in the domestic new energy market, and also shows the full support and expectation of SAIC Smart Machine for LS7.

The price has dropped, is the basis for driving still there? Judging from the foundation of Zhiji L7, SAIC's pursuit of electric vehicle handling quality has risen to the level of faith. However, the market response did not meet many people's expectations, even including fans who supported electric vehicles to take the control route. Therefore, in order to make Zhiji LS7 a unified "bucket model" with long and short boards, Zhiji made a trade-off and replaced it with air suspension and CDC shock absorber, which was more acceptable to consumers.

The supplier of this CDC is still Besten of BILSTEIN Germany, which was previously mounted on L7. This set of electric shock absorption is also one of the necessary hardware of Mercedes-Benz ADS, BMW EDC and Porsche PASM systems. By quickly adjusting the opening and closing of the valve in the inner cavity of the damping barrel, an independent channel can be formed to change the flow rate of damping liquid, thus changing the damping hardness.

From the intelligent machine L7 to LS7, there are only functional choices, style changes, and the sense of control has not deteriorated.

Therefore, in terms of hardware, the driving and control foundation of Zhiji has not been lost, and Williams team continues to undertake the task of chassis adjustment. The test drive experience of Zhiji LS7 is basically the same as expected. It stands to reason that if the shock absorption is replaced by air springs, the whole vehicle will be much softer and more comfortable, but the actual driving experience is not like this. Spring hardness is the easiest to adjust and the most intuitive driving experience, but how to transfer the road conditions to the cockpit; How to restrain the excessive shaking of the car body after passing through the speed bump and how to control the pitching of the car body on the roadbed and road surface are important indicators of the driving style and texture of the car.

Zhi Ji LS7 is hard. Generally speaking, the comfort mode of Zhiji LS7 is a little close to the sports mode of competing models. By chatting with the product manager of Zhiji LS7, we know that the driving mode will be fine-tuned in the form of OTA in the future to achieve a more comfortable effect in the comfort mode, which is the optimization direction obtained from the feedback from consumers. When passing through the speed bump, the car body will not have extra bounce, and the suspension can "pull" the car body tightly. Aouita 1 1 was also tested that day. In this respect, the performance of OITA/KOOC-0//KOOC-0/is not as good as that of Zhiji LS7, and the bounce after the speed bump reduces the driving quality and "advanced feeling" of OITA/KOOC-0//KOOC-0.

Another embodiment of training skills is: how to make the tram behave quickly without dizziness. There are two versions of Zhiji LS7: rear-drive version and four-wheel drive version. The acceleration time of the rear-drive version is 6.5s, and the acceleration time of the four-wheel drive version is 4.5s. The common feature of the two versions is that when the electric switch is pressed deeply, the vehicle will not give the driver a general feeling of "brain damage". On the contrary, it will make this sense of acceleration much more linear, feel more like a large-displacement engine, and have a strong aftereffect when accelerating.

"Eye-catching" may still be the word "visual" promoted by YAT steering wheel manufacturers. I prefer to use bright colors instead. Sitting in the intelligent LS7 car, the front and back are too bright, and the feeling of no cover on the vision is in exchange for inner comfort. This feeling will be particularly obvious if there are two cars at home. Zhiji LS7 is very suitable for driving slowly on country roads or mountain roads and enjoying the panoramic scenery brought by the big dome. That kind of feeling is really like opening a wide angle to the eyes, and the visual range is too large. Give another more intuitive example. Under the condition that the scenery outside remains unchanged, French windows are more suitable for enjoying the beautiful scenery than glass with window frames.

In the same way, in order to pursue the ultimate unobstructed vision, manufacturers chose to choose a semi-steering wheel. From the test drive experience, when the steering wheel needs to be completely turned into storage, the steering wheel will be "hollowed out" by half, which is acceptable for lazy drivers who like to "rub the steering wheel" with one hand, but for drivers who like to loosen the steering wheel when returning, the YAT steering wheel can't tolerate your "licentiousness" and may be gone when returning ... but this steering wheel is not only promoted by manufacturers.

My suggestion to Yate's semi-steering wheel is that it is certainly not as convenient as the traditional steering wheel, but it can give you a strong sense of vanity satisfaction, just like everyone wears a suit and tie, and a bow tie suddenly appears, which always makes people look twice. If the demand for installing 13 is not very high, save 2300 yuan and buy a better set of foot pads. The guide rail of this car is too long, and it needs a set of fitted foot pads.

I talked to the product manager and sales of Zhiji. This car has high hopes for the LS7, so it has made a lot of profits and achieved remarkable results. Compared with L7, the cost performance of Zhiji LS7 is much higher, and the ratio of discarded things to price reduction is really insignificant.

On the other hand, the person in charge of their R&D and product level is very aware of the shortcomings and bugs of the current vehicles. For example, the first officer's seat adjustment button is slow to respond; Is it a good choice to slide to the left in order to bring up the shortcut button on the main interface of the car? They promised that these problems would be solved by OTA at a later stage. This is a relatively gratifying thing. First of all, hearing the voice of consumers is a sign of respect; Secondly, the current problem can be solved by upgrading OTA software, and the owner will not hate this car for a lifetime because of a function.

Then I thought about talking about cars, talking about cars with Zhiji's sales, and being excited in humility; Idealism is mixed with expectation of sales volume, which is a state that a sales consultant was hurt by Zhi Zhi L7 when selling LS7. They rejoiced that the manufacturers finally showed the good cards pursued by the general public. They held back their joy and mused: Our intellectual sales finally stood up! I asked them if selling cars was ten times more comfortable than Zhiji L7. This is a very abstract question. Sales know that I'm not just asking about sales.

The look on his face when he answered, he was shy.

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