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On September 24th, the new domestic brand "small sports car" officially released the official picture of its first model, the small sports car SC-01. It is understood that the small sports car SC-01 positioning two pure electric sports cars, NEDC mileage of more than 500km, 0-100km / hour acceleration time less than 3.9s. It was previously reported that the price of the small sports car SC-01 is expected to be no more than 300000 yuan, or it may be delivered in the fourth quarter of this year.

In terms of appearance, as a small sports car, the overall design of the new car is simple. Specifically, the front face of the new car uses the closed design commonly used in pure electric models, with sharp headlights on both sides and an inverted triangle in the center of the brand Logo, the visual effect of the whole car is quite sporty.

On the side of the body, the new car uses a short front and rear suspension design with matte black color matching rims to further highlight the sports sense of the new car. In terms of size, the new car is 4085/1820/1162mm in length, width and height, 2500mm in wheelbase, and positioned as a two-door and two-seat pure electric sports car. In the rear part, the design of the new car is very recognizable, with a concave shape in the middle of the rear, an inverted triangular brand Logo embedded in the center, and a round taillight design on both sides.

In the interior part, the new car also follows the minimalist design concept, there is no touch screen in the car, and all the buttons are physical buttons. In addition, as a new domestic brand, all the parts used in the new car come from domestic and have more versatility.

In terms of power, officials revealed that the new car will be equipped with a dual-motor all-wheel drive system with a maximum power of 320kW, with a maximum mileage of more than 500km under NEDC conditions and an acceleration time of less than 3.9s at 0100km / h.

It is understood that the small sports car is founded by the craftsman faction, a domestic modified car company, and the Xiaomi Group has invested tens of millions of dollars to jointly build the brand.

When it comes to craftsmen, everyone has more or less heard of it. In 2013, Feng Xiaotong teamed up with a group of young people who love cars to form a team and integrate their creativity and design into the car to produce models with new ideas, and tried to create the first program to record the ideas of domestic car retrofit. This is the beginning of the "craftsman school." So far, his team has worked on more than 100 models, including Chery small Ant, Porsche 911, Mitsubishi 3000GT and so on, and has worked with racing companies to build racing cars by hand. The launch of the small sports car SC-01 is its second venture.

With the release of the small sports car SC01, craftsmen have officially transformed from a retrofit workshop to a new energy vehicle manufacturer. Hefei craftsman New Energy Electric Sports car Co., Ltd. was established on September 14, 2022, with Feng Xiaotong as its legal representative and registered capital of 20 million yuan, according to Tianyan check information. It is an enterprise mainly engaged in automobile manufacturing. The ownership structure chart shows that the largest shareholder of the company is Tianjin craftsman Pai Automotive Technology Co., Ltd., which was founded in 2016 and is represented by Feng Xiaotong, a company mainly engaged in automobile manufacturing.

At this time last year, the small sports car officially released the small sports car SC-01, and opened the reservation at the same time, with an intention to pay 199 yuan. At that time, the craftsman sent a post saying: "the small sports car SC-01 will eventually sell for less than 300000. Of course, it is definitely not 300000, nor does it mean that the probability is very close to 300000. It's just an agreement on the price ceiling that we must not exceed. At the same time, it pointed out that the car will focus on ensuring the performance-to-price ratio of sports characteristics, while striving to ensure competitive prices.

In fact, there has been a precedent for retrofitting car brands to build cars before. In 2014, Jiangsu SALEEN Motor acquired SALEEN, a US supercar brand founded by Century car guru Steve Saleen in 1983. After the acquisition, the brand was named "Sailin Automobile".

In 2017, Sailin released its new car, Sailin S1, which positioned civilians to overtake, but soon there was no follow-up progress after the exposure of the S1 vehicle project. In July 2019, at the launch of the "Sailin Night" Bird's Nest, Sailin released the Mai Mai model, which is located in a small electric car, but the good times did not last long. In mid-2020, the chairman of Sailin "ran away". Jiangsu Sailin was officially put up for auction a few months ago.

Obviously, it is not easy to modify car brands to build cars across banks. 2023 is defined as the year of change in the automobile industry, especially in the new energy car market, where the competition between car companies can no longer rely on one or two hot-style cars to survive, which to some extent aggravates the knockout race among vulnerable car companies. As for the follow-up domestic sports car will have what kind of achievement, we still wait and see.

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