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Seven years later, SAIC Volkswagen Lingdu finally ushered in the replacement. According to SAIC Volkswagen official announcement, the new generation model Lingdu will be officially released on January 17,2022, and the car is expected to go on sale at the end of January. In fact, the new car completed the declaration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as early as July 2021. According to the previously published declaration map and relevant spy photos information, the new car as a whole is very different from the current Lingdu.

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In terms of appearance, as a "luxury wide-body coupe", the new Lingdu adopts a family-style design language and incorporates the design style of the ID. family, which is completely different from the calm style of the past. Specifically, the brand-new Lingdu maintains a streamlined body design. The front part adopts a larger size front air intake grille and uses through-type integrated LED headlights, which makes the original headlight set adjusted slimmer and the front face becomes lower and flatter, looking very radical. It is said that part of the design inspiration of the new car comes from Volkswagen Golf and Volkswagen ID series respectively, but the addition of "ID. style" also aroused the attention of netizens, some netizens said: "The design of the new car looks too strange, and the overall design style is not" Volkswagen "at all."

As a replacement model, the new generation Lingdu will be built on the latest MQB Evo platform, positioning compact coupe. In terms of body size, the length, width and height of the new car are 4784mm/1831mm/1469mm respectively, and the wheelbase reaches 2731mm, while the length, width and height of the current Lingdu are 4615/1826/1425mm respectively, and the wheelbase is 2656 mm. Compared with the current model, the overall appearance is more slender. The length of the new car increases by 169mm, the width increases by 5mm, the height increases by 44mm and the wheelbase increases by 75 mm.

The rear part is also different from the current model. The new generation Lingdu continues the slip-back styling design of the current model. The new car is equipped with a through-type lamp design. Due to the shorter and low-lying design style, with the hidden exhaust layout and the blackened integrated taillights, the whole rear end appears more layered.

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generation of Lingdu

It is worth mentioning that the new Lingdu adopts the design of "frameless door", which is the biggest highlight of the new generation of models. It is understood that at present, only FAW-Volkswagen CC has adopted frameless door design among Volkswagen domestic models in China, and the new generation Lingdu will become the first compact car with frameless doors among Volkswagen domestic models. To some extent, this also means that Lingdu's market positioning will be younger and personalized.

In terms of interior, the design style of the brand-new Lingdu is relatively simple, but the internal structure has many similarities with Tiguan X. The new car adopts popular dual screen and through-type air conditioning outlet. The steering wheel has been redesigned and chrome trim strips are added to make it more refined.

In terms of power, the new car will be equipped with 1.4T engine, maximum power 110kW, peak torque 250N·m, power consistent with the current model, transmission part is expected to match 7-speed dual clutch gearbox.

In the competition of new car market, Lingdu positioning is between Lavida and Passat, but the style positioning of the two is different, but combined with the design and price of Lingdu sports style, Buick Weilang (including GS three-compartment version) and 2.0T low-power version of Link03 may form a certain competitive relationship with the new car.

Looking back on Volkswagen's product design, it is not difficult to find that Volkswagen's appearance design is similar, which is why netizens call Volkswagen "doll face" reason, this new generation Volkswagen Lingdu a change to normal, in appearance design and other Volkswagen models have obvious differences, from the evaluation of netizens, although the new generation Volkswagen Lingdu in the design breakthrough also added a lot of new design elements, but netizens do not seem to buy. For the new Lingdu, the most discussed online at present is its appearance, many netizens spit out: "not as good as before","really ugly","the more ugly","the ugliest Volkswagen car","abandoned","this car is finished","spicy eyes front face","no longer a wide luxury coupe spicy steamed bread".

At the beginning of its listing, Lingdu has achieved good sales volume and influence. In its glorious period, its monthly sales volume reached nearly 20,000 vehicles, even competing with Honda Civic. However, with the passage of time, the sales volume of this model began to decline. According to the latest data statistics, in November 2021, the sales volume of SAIC Volkswagen Lingdu declined to 5882 vehicles, and the cumulative sales volume from January to November 2021 was 47239 vehicles. According to the data, the product power of Lingdu has been obviously insufficient at present.

The new generation of Lingdu is a brand-new generation since its launch in 2015. Although the brand-new appearance of the new generation of Lingdu has been criticized by many netizens, it is replaced with frameless door elements and double screens, which makes the whole vehicle model look younger and personalized. Perhaps this point can attract more young consumers. As for the performance of the new generation of Volkswagen Lingdu after its launch, it remains to be seen.

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