Between the flagship 09 of the Lynk & Co family and the Huadan 01, which has been in charge for many years, what kind of model will Lynk & Co put in? The answer to this mystery was revealed today, the new Lynk & Co medium-sized SUV, Lynk & Co 08.
As early as the beginning of this month, Cheyun.com had seen the design draft, interior materials, seats and other parts of this car at Lynk & Co’s European R&D center. One of our impressions at the time was that the side view and the front view of this car were not the same car. The side view was slender and attractive, stretching like flagship models such as Cadillac lyriq and Lynk & Co 09. But the front view, especially the side front view, feels like this car is a new generation of Lynk & Co 01, a compact to mid-level SUV.
Today we saw the real car in the studio, and the mystery was revealed. There is nothing wrong with the picture, nor our eyes. That’s how this car was designed. The waistline of the entire body is straight and straight, which is the customary design idea of medium and large SUVs. There is also the expansion of the wheel hub, and the projection position is almost flush with the wheel eyebrows, which brings a strong sense of visual impact. Coupled with this extremely thin light strip, from the side view, this is a proper flagship SUV. But after passing the C-pillar, the line of the slippery back begins to fall, and the tilt angle of the tail box is very large, which even gives people a feeling of hatchback. It is good-looking, but it also shrinks the outline of the rear of the car. Hatchback, this is a concept that makes domestic designers turn pale. Because coupe means sacrificing space for appearance. But beyond our expectations, the rear space of Lynk & Co 08 is surprisingly good. The front is my 1.8-meter driving posture, and the leg room is close to three punches. Even if the co-pilot sits stretched with a queen, you still have room for two punches in the second row. Coupled with the depth of the trunk, there is no doubt that the Lynk & Co 08 can bear the name of a large five-seater SUV. Because I have always been very obsessed with the driving quality of Lynk & Co 09, I hope to buy a large five-seater Lynk & Co 09. But this Lynk & Co 08 even swayed me. Especially the color matching, this amount of leek color, no, the emerald color Lynk & Co 08, who can stand it? Moreover, the Lynk & Co 08 has also reached a new height under the CMA framework. The 4850 car leader said that the mid-level SUV is a bit modest. The wheelbase infinitely close to 3 meters gives a very high starting point in terms of design and space practicality. The brand-new front face minimizes the presence of the grille, making this plug-in hybrid model look closer to a pure electric new energy vehicle. So a good design can indeed realize both what our Chinese users want and what they want on a relatively limited body and platform. When I was communicating with the design team of Lynk & Co 08 at the Lynk & Co European Design Center. They are very familiar with the preferences of Chinese users. When communicating with the design team, they clearly told me that to know Chinese users, first, they are young, second, they like large spaces, and third, they dare to try new products with a strong sense of technology. Therefore, the design of Lynk & Co 08 is carried out from these three aspects. The urban opposition aesthetics advocated by Lynk & Co 08 does not follow the conventional split headlights or the minimalist through-type headlights, but does enough work on one light strip. It is emphasized that the combined use of each kind of lighting must have practical functionality, combined together, it is a conceptual design “digital skyline”. Like the first rays of sunlight at dawn in Gothenburg. Stefan Rosen, vice president of design at Lynk & Co, told me that he knows that the design of electric vehicles in China is becoming more and more similar, with split headlights and through-type taillights. The CEO of Volkswagen recently visited China and asked the employees of Volkswagen in China why all the electric cars in the Chinese market are designed like Porsche. So he is going to keep a distance from this design line. There is a longitudinally extending LOGO breathing light strip on both sides of the front of the car, which is the technological totem that the Lynk & Co 08 design emphasizes this time. When the vehicle is charging, it displays the breathing light effect. When the user approaches the vehicle, it flashes to welcome guests. The light belt integrates the turn signal and the camera at the same time. The ingenious integrated design becomes the finishing touch of the vehicle. Coupled with the highly integrated ambient light of the Hehe sound system, the various prompt sounds of the Lynk & Co 08 use a large number of Chinese elements and natural sounds, which are seamlessly integrated with the lighting. If Audi is the light factory in the era of fuel vehicles, then Lynk & Co will be a strong contender for the title of “light factory” in the new energy era. In fact, the original design of this technology totem is even bolder as far as I know. The European design team originally wanted to make it like the smart island on the forehead of the Apple iPhone, using an LED display to dynamically display various vehicle driving parameters. More variety of welcome effects. However, due to considerations of maintenance economy and domestic regulations, it was simplified into a breathing light belt with the Lynk & Co logo. The design of the Lynk & Co 08 is very thoughtful, and I will only mention two of them, one is a mirror rearview mirror, and the frameless design is very eye-catching. Then there is this technology island, which integrates the HUD and the central audio, which improves the visual level of the cockpit, and the sound effect has also reached a higher level. The interior we see today is not the interior of the fully mass-produced version, but you will always believe in Lynk & Co, who has a “doctorate in materials science”. Of course, we don’t shy away from it. The car engine is a point that Lynk & Co has been complaining about for a long time. This time, Meizu Flyme Auto will make up for you. We haven’t been able to experience the full Flyme Auto on the current trial car. However, judging from the current public information, Flyme Auto has achieved three major leaps. One is that the UI is extremely clean and attractive. Just the 3D display of the car body and map navigation has already left all friends behind. The other is that the design consistency has been done well. Very good, all kinds of icons and display cards are the design language of smartphones that we are very familiar with, and realize the same frequency as the mobile phone OS. This is a level that can only be achieved by Huawei Harmony OS in the past. Finally, it is behind this car machine A set of independent chips, Longying 1, and 7nm process are used, which allow Lynk & Co to achieve hardware-level adaptation and optimization. So we can finally come to the conclusion that Lynk & Co 08 is the first model of Lynk & Co’s new generation of design language, the ceiling of the CMA platform model, and the large five-seat space leapfrog experience, second only to the existence of the quasi-flagship of Lynk & Co 09. If it sets an irresistible price, such as less than 250,000, it will make it difficult for the mainstream medium-sized SUVs on the market to parry.
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