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Today, Guangzhou Auto Honda released the official picture of the new global SUV "ZR-V" and announced its Chinese name "Zhijia". It is understood that the new car positioning compact SUV, between colorful wisdom and Haoying, will be listed domestically as soon as this year. With regard to the name of the car, the official said that "Zhi" means yearning and arriving; "in" it means being free and galloping freely; and it is the existence of a colorful and exquisite personality in a complicated life, which is the ease of enjoying the gallop in the city.

Above: Guangzhou Auto Honda ZR-V: American version HR-V

From the official picture released, the appearance of Guangzhou Auto Honda ZR-V is basically the same as Honda HR-V, which is the previously exposed domestic version of Honda HR-V. In terms of appearance, the Guangzhou Automobile Honda ZR-V has adopted a new design, which is obviously different from the Guangzhou Automobile Honda models currently on sale. The front face of the Guangzhou Automobile Honda family-style chrome-plated decorative strip is cancelled, and the larger size hexagonal design is adopted. The interior is also designed with a small hexagonal design, while the engine hatch cover connected to the medium network is designed with two muscle lines, which are connected with the two muscle lines in the middle net part. Increased the domineering and tough style of the whole car. The Honda logo is no longer placed on the front grille, but is moved to the part connected to the hood to make the vehicle look more recognizable. As for the headlamp group, there is no choice to connect with the front grille, the overall shape still maintains a slender design, with L-shaped LED day lights.

The side of the body, as a compact SUV, its rear and C-column are significantly longer than the previous generation HR-V, the rear window area is more colorful than the cash, and the rear disturbance is added to the top of the rear. In addition, the front and rear doors of Guangzhou Auto Honda ZR-V all use traditional doorknobs, which makes the whole car look more stable. At the rear of the vehicle, the ZR-V taillights of Guangzhou Automobile Honda are designed separately, but they look more rounded, and the L-shaped taillight belt also echoes the front LED daylight.

In the power part, as the GAC Honda ZR-V is based on the 11th generation Civic platform, coupled with the 240TURBO logo on the official map, it can be speculated that the GAC Honda ZR-V can continue the same Civic powertrain, equipped with a 1.5T engine and CVT gearbox.

Judging from the official pictures, the ZR-V of Guangzhou Automobile Honda is indeed very individual in appearance, breaking the design style of the previous Honda family models, its front face is more streamlined, and the whole shape is more like the SUV model created by high-end luxury sports brands. And the whole body design, also broke the current Honda family design style, but also took into account a certain degree of practicality.

Honda released the appearance of the new HR-V on April 4, North American time. Previously, HR-V and XR-V/ are both small SUV, not much different in appearance, interior and power system are the same, while the new generation of HR-V ushered in a new change, positioning from a small SUV upgrade to a compact SUV.

Earlier, a plan for a new car by Dongfeng Honda in 2022 was revealed. According to the exposure map, the new car planning comes from the internal training materials of a Dongfeng Honda dealer. Dongfeng Honda plans to launch a number of new models in 2022, including the new Civic, the new Civic hybrid, the new Civic HATCHBACK, the new Civic TYPE-R, the new generation XR-V, the new generation CR-V, the new pure electric e:NS1 and a new SUV model, a total of 8 models. Among them, Dongfeng Honda's new SUV model is likely to be a sister model to Guangzhou Auto Honda ZR-V.

At present, there is not much official information about the new car, but from its positioning, after listing, it will further improve the SUV family matrix of Guangzhou Automobile Honda together with Guandao, Haoying and colorful Zhi. In terms of competitive products, ZR-V will compete with Toyota Corolla Ruifang (129800-169800 yuan) and Toyota Feng Landa (125800-169800 yuan) after listing.

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