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On June 4, ideal Automobile founder, Chairman and CEO Li wanted to disclose some of the information about the new car ideal L9 on the social platform: first, the ideal L9 will be officially released on June 21; all stores across the country can be test-driven in February and July; officially delivered to users in March and August; delivery volume can exceed 10,000 in April and September It is not difficult to see that Li Xiang is very confident about the ideal L9, saying: "Thank you for your expectation of the ideal L9, the best home flagship SUV within 5 million?" Yes! " .

Judging from the information we have so far, the positioning of the ideal L9 is much higher than that of the ideal ONE, including body size and vehicle configuration, while the ideal car officials also aim its competition at the million-level luxury import flagship SUV such as Mercedes-Benz GLS, BMW X7, range Rover and so on.

The ideal L9 is the second production car under the ideal car and the first large SUV under the ideal car. Surprisingly, instead of following the naming idea of the first model, the ideal ONE, named "ideal TWO" and so on, the ideal L9 jumped to "9" and replaced it with the letter "L" as the prefix for the new car.

According to the real car and the new car declaration chart of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the ideal L9 completely abandoned the large-size grille design of the ideal ONE and adopted the closed middle grid design of the electric vehicle style, but as an added program model, in order to ensure the air intake, the opening of the lower air intake of the car becomes very large, and the active air intake grille is introduced. In addition, the ideal L9 also uses split headlamps, through-type lamp belts can be retained, and uses the shape of seamless lamp belts. In terms of size, the length, width and height of the new car are 5218/1998/1800mm, and the wheelbase is 3105mm, which is similar to that of BMW X7 and Mercedes-Benz.

In terms of interior decoration, the ideal L9 will adopt a new design language in the interior, such as the integrated design of the central control screen and the co-driver screen, and the second row of entertainment screen on the roof also reaches 15.7in. However, the instrument of the main driver has been cancelled, and the function has been replaced by the HUD look-up display and the safe driving interactive screen on the steering wheel, which is still very rare in the current market. In addition, the central control screen, co-driver entertainment screen and rear cabin entertainment screen can all be directly connected to the Switch through the Type-C interface, and the Type-C interface also provides 60W charging power.

In terms of smart configuration, the ideal L9 will be equipped with smart driving services, including super smart parking, urban smart driving, multiple attentive car remote calls, smart driving and OTA upgrades. In addition, the car will have L4 self-driving hardware, including AP controller Horizon J3+J5 chip and SP controller customized Orin-X chip, installation of 1 128line lidar, 1 DMS, 5 millimeter wave radar, 12 ultrasonic radar and 12 8m cameras.

In terms of power, the ideal L9 is equipped with a 1.5T four-cylinder controller, the maximum power of the front drive motor is 130kW, the maximum power of the rear drive motor is 200kW, the total power is 330kW, and the maximum torque is 620N ·m. In terms of mileage, the ideal L9 is equipped with 44.5kWh battery capacity, pure electric 215km under CLTC operating conditions, and comprehensive mileage 1315km, which is not much different from the NEDC standard 1080km of the ideal ONE.

Data show that a total of 47379 new cars were delivered from January to May, of which 11496 were delivered by ideal cars in May. According to the official website, the ideal ONE currently sells for 349800 yuan, and only one model is on sale. From the new power delivery list, the delivery of the ideal car is second only to Xiaopeng car and Nawei car, but from the point of view of unit sales, the performance of the ideal ONE is indeed the best, and the average price is also the highest.

As we all know, the reputation of three-cylinder engines in China is not very good, and it is very difficult for models equipped with three-cylinder engines to make achievements in sales, and even there has been a lot of momentum before, and sales have plummeted after the replacement of three-cylinder engines. Finally, I had no choice but to change back to the example of four cylinders. However, the ideal ONE is an exception, which carries a 1.2T three-cylinder engine with high sales, and even reaches more than 10,000 monthly sales many times. Of course, the market for the ideal ONE with a three-cylinder engine is not too bad, after all, it is a pure electric drive model, the three-cylinder engine only exists as a way to increase the range, and does not directly participate in the wheel drive.

The ideal ONE with 1.2T three-cylinder engine still performs well, but the ideal L9 with 1.5T four-cylinder engine will not be the key buying point. It can be expected that the ideal L9 is difficult to reach the height of the ideal ONE, on the one hand, the increase in the price of the ideal L9 is destined to narrow its user target group, on the other hand, the ideal L9 is located at a higher end than the ideal ONE, and its size, configuration and other performance will be more considerable, but the space and configuration of the ideal ONE are enough. Therefore, Li Xiang boasts that "the delivery volume in September can exceed 10,000" should be conservatively estimated, and we also look forward to whether the ideal L9 can exceed the ideal ONE.

From a comprehensive point of view, there are only two domestic large-scale SUV models, Hongqi E-HS9 and Beijing BJ90, in which Hongqi E-HS9 sells for 50.98-779800 yuan and Beijing BJ90 sells for 99.8-1.288 million yuan. However, the ideal L9 is a luxurious full-size SUV such as the BMW X7 (guidance price 100.00-1.698 million yuan) and Mercedes-Benz GLS (guidance price 104.26-1.329 million yuan). From the price point of view, the price of the ideal L9 does lower the entry threshold for the full-size SUV, but it is insurmountable in brand awareness, which is not the same consumer group as the BMW X7 and Mercedes-Benz GLS, so the ideal L9 should compete with models of the same price, including Lexus ES8, Lexus RX, Cadillac XT6, Volvo XC90, etc., but from the perspective of comprehensive product competitiveness, the performance of the ideal L9 is indeed acceptable. As to whether it is the best SUV with less than 5 million yuan, what do you think?

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