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On the evening of May 28, Pentium pony, a brand new model of FAW Pentium, was officially launched. The new car has launched a total of three models with a price range of 2.69-31900 yuan. Officials say 1079 new cars were delivered on their first day on the market.

The new car is positioned as a pure electric minicar, with a 3-door, 4-seat hatchback layout and a 20kW permanent magnet synchronous motor on the power. Considering the positioning and price of the new car, the new car will compete with micro-electric vehicles such as Hongguang MINIEV and Changan Lumin. For comparison, the price range of Hongguang MINIEV is 3.28-99900 yuan.

In terms of appearance, the overall shape of the new car is round and cute, the front face adopts the now popular closed grille design, in the middle is the huge brand logo LOGO logo, with fillet shaped light groups on both sides, the whole department is standard with halogen headlights and LED turn lights, and has different color matching decoration, the whole has a great visual impact.

On the side of the car body, the new car is small in shape and adopts collision color design, providing six body color options of lime, cherry, grape, blueberry, litchi and pearl litchi, adding a lot of fashion to the new car. In the rear part of the car, the new car taillight is consistent with the front face, forming the echo effect before and after lighting. In addition, the rear part of the new car is designed with a small spoiler, and the license plate frame is located above the bumper to further enhance the young fashion sense of the whole car.

In terms of size, the length, width and height of the new car are 3000/1510/1630mm and the wheelbase is 1953mm. For comparison, the Wuling Hongguang MINIEV basic model has a length, width and height of 2920/1493/1621mm and a wheelbase of 1940. By contrast, the new car surpasses the Wuling Hongguang MINIEV in all sizes.

In terms of interior decoration, the new car uses two-color matching, providing beach gold, peach powder, bubble blue, azure green, camellia green a total of five color options. The car is equipped with a 7-inch meter and knob shift mechanism, air conditioning control, window control and other buttons on the dashboard, and a water cup holder in front of the co-driver.

In terms of power, the new car is equipped with a single rear motor, with a maximum power of 20 kilowatts and a maximum torque of 85 Nm. The battery is equipped with three capacity battery packs of 9.4kWh, 9.98kWh and 13.9kWh. The pure electric range under CLTC condition is 122km and 170km.

This Pentium pony positioning pure electric minicar is a brand-new model under FAW Pentium. It should be noted that the current pure electric minicar market is particularly competitive, such as Hongguang MINIEV, BYD dolphin / seagull, Wuling colorful fruit, Nezha V, Ola good cat, Chery QQ ice cream and so on are all hot models in the market. As a new car that also locates the minicar, the Pentium pony is well-designed and basically caters to the aesthetics of most consumers, but in the highly competitive mini-car market, it is worth thinking about how the Pentium pony can seize the market with the above-mentioned models.

Retail data show that from January to April this year, the top three models of pure electric minicar sales were Hongguang MINIEV, Changan Lumin and Geely Panda, with cumulative sales of 56660, 39002 and 32023 respectively. Admittedly, as a brand-new model, it is not easy for Pentium pony to compete with the above models, and FAW Pentium still has a long way to go in the future.

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