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Today, the automobile industry focuses on the latest batch of model declaration information released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Guangzhou Auto Honda's new SUV model, the ZR-V, appears in the new product catalogue. Earlier this month, Guangzhou Auto Honda released the official picture of the new car and named the new car "Zhijia" in Chinese. the new car will be built with the Civic / style sharing platform, positioning the compact SUV, and the price is expected to be around 14-150000 yuan. It may be available this year. After the launch, the new car will compete with Nissan Xiaoke (15.49-188900), Toyota Corolla Ruifang (12.98-169800), Toyota Feng Landa (12.58-169800) and other models.

Judging from the previous official drawings and the exposed declaration pictures, the exterior design style of the new car is different from that of the models currently on sale by Honda, and the front part of the new car has changed greatly. The new car continues the design style of the American version of HR-V, which can be regarded as the domestic version of the American version of HR-V. Specifically, the front face is similar to Ford's iconic "Martin mouth" air intake grille, the interior of the network is blackened with a beehive design, with simple headlights, and the bottom is surrounded by a hollowed-out grille, which looks more avantgarde as a whole. On the side of the body, the lines of the new car body are very simple. In the rear part of the car, the shape of the new car is more round, with a forward-tilted rear windshield design, with obvious grooves in the middle, taillights shaped similar to "spoon-shaped", and blackened, and the bottom is bilateral single solid exhaust, the whole is highly recognizable.

In terms of body size, the length, width and height of the new car are 4568/1840/1621mm, wheelbase is 2655mm, positioning compact SUV, between colorful wisdom and Haoying (higher than colorful wisdom, lower than Haoying). Compared with the colorful smart model, the new car has a longer 240mm in length. Compared with its competitors Nissan Xiaoke and Toyota Corolla Ruifang, the new car also has more advantages, in which the body length of the new car is more than 10 centimeters longer than both Xiaoke and Ruifang. As a comparison, the length, width and height of Nissan Xiaoke are 4401/1837/1611mm, the wheelbase is 2646mm, and the length, width and height of Toyota Corolla Ruifang are 4460/1825/1620mm and 2640mm respectively.

In addition, according to the declaration information, the new door handle has a built-in design, the handle of the emergency keyhole is hidden, the rear windows are provided with side privacy glass, and the wheels of the new car are available in two specifications: 235max 65 R17 and 235max 60 R18.

In terms of power, the new car will be equipped with a 1.5T engine with a maximum power of 134kW and a maximum torque of 240N ·m. The transmission system will match the CVT gearbox.

As one of the global models, GAC Honda will further fill the gap between Lizhi and Haoying models after its launch. At the same time, it will also improve the product matrix of GAC Honda together with Lizhi, Haoying, Guandao and other models, covering small, compact and medium-sized three mainstream SUV segments respectively. Judging from the current compact SUV market of 12-180000 yuan, the new car will compete with other models such as Nissan Xiaoke (15.49-188900), Toyota Corolla Ruifang (12.98-169800) and Toyota Feng Landa (12.58-169800). Data show that from January to April this year, Nissan sold 50329 vehicles, Toyota Corolla Ruifang sold 12145 vehicles, and Toyota Fenglanda sold 15456 vehicles. According to the latest data, from January to April this year, GAC Honda terminal vehicle sales totaled 227786 units, down 6.9% from 244610 in the same period last year. Among them, GAC Honda terminal car sales in April this year were 42936, down 33.4% from 64500 in the same period.

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