Scientists convincingly explain our commitment to stereotypes. They say, make us confident in themselves. Although neither the mind nor objectivity is added. Whenever a Chinese car turns out on the test, I get into a trap of stereotypes, forcing me to think about a meeting with a copy or a handicraft of dubious properties. And many times I confidently get to see.
Alexey Sharapov Photo: Cherry
Lesson Linguistics
All New Year's holidays and even longer I spent driving a Chinese crossover CheryExeed TXL from the new sub-worn company of the company. The car is built on scalable, that is, designed to produce several types of vehicles with any type of drive and power unit, the M3X platform. The Austro-German Industrial Group of Benteler, which has been manufacturing high-strength steels for the automotive industry has been helped to create its Chinese company. This is me that the "racial" purity in Automir has no left. Meanwhile, many of us on inertia continue to share the cars on the national basis.
The English word "EXSEED" implies superiority. But hardly over premium European models. Although the TXL in the dark can even be taken for Porsche Cayenne or for Range Rover. It depends a lot from which angle to look. Most likely, this is superiority over your own. Namely above the front-wheel drive samples of Chery Tiggo 8 and Tiggo 7 Pro. There is no help: EXEED TXL will give the referred to the sceners of the head and from the point of view of appearance, and from the point of view of the filling. It would be more - a four-wheel drive, a 7-speed robot with two clutches from getrag, 184 horsepower, shot from the turbogo volume, GM ... 1.6 liters.
You can safely stick to the car and often meaningless epithet "technological". But some technologies have tangible strangeness in behavior.
Communication lesson
For example, the approximation sensors that are in the equipment of the crossover and which respond to the key in the owner's pocket, are triggered by a very decent distance of 3-4 meters. The car immediately begins to welcome the person with a sound signal and turn signals. But if you decide to suddenly get around the car (check out something in the trunk or pick up something from the back chairs, then the sensors can suddenly lose you, and then detect you again. As a result, you will be waiting for a view with many acts of closing and opening doors, greetings And farewell. It is good that "technology" can be disabled in the menu on the central screen.
About the full drive we only know that it has an exeed txl. And nothing more. No additional indicators or a hint of the ability to control the inter-screen clutch. No buttons or levers in the cabin. "You just believe me, but you will understand later."
I try to understand. In terms of sensations, the transmission always distributes the craving for all four wheels, and a decisive pressing for gas can even be famously trusted in a narrow place. That is, the moment goes back. So there is a constant four-wheel drive type TOD - Torque on Demand. In other words, the moment is available on any axis.
But it is not easy to track it - you have to listen to the right foot and to the fifth point. When disabling the stabilization system (thanks for what is turned off) you can hate the tail fun and briefly. A miracle of electronics comes to the rescue - the ninth generation of ESP from Bosch. So there is no complaints about the country's winter passability. I liked how a confident car behaves on a snowy road and in deep snow - rows and leaves, leaves and rows. It seemed to me that two thirds of all-wheel drive CheryExeed were exceeded by the German electronics, even on the sparing asphalt of the notched Pirelli Winter Sottozero tires with the Soksty V - 240km / h. Thank you Bosch 9.3!
By the way, about speed. Direct Injection Engine TDGI with
270 Nm of torque surprisingly vaguely accelerates the car. But in the work of the gearbox there is some kind of indecision, she always has to remind that we are already going, and not stand. The "Sport" mode solves this problem, but makes ride overly with sharp and fine.
Marketing lesson
And it returns us to stereotypes, I could not agree for a long time, with the fact that Chinese automakers began to make truly good cars. Well, demolished, well, "looking with what to compare", well, "for this money OK" it was already more than once, but so that truly good and interesting technically do not believe.
CheryExeed, in order to become a car to which there will be no complaints from the point of view of the experienced "tastor" you need to get rid of excessive suspension stiffness, reconfigure the sensors of the approximation, "finish" the multimedia system, work with switching modes of the box and add a jot , It seems to heat the windshield and mirrors.
If you believe in the Russian office of Chery, they work with the Chinese over the revision of raw models no less efficiently than nameless trainers from a joke about circus and flying crocodiles. So there are chances that in the near future from our stereotypes regarding the Chinese auto industry will not be a trace. And it means that we loss of stronghold and self-confidence.
Source: Claxon Automotive Edition