Chapter 301: Dongchen is here again! (below)

Just when C3C's "Polar Realm" followed the route of S3C exploded again, there was silence in the board room of Toyota Group far away in Japan, and in stark contrast to this absolute silence, there were no less than 30 people sitting in the entire conference room!

These people, who have just received the latest news from the UK, have mastered every dynamic of C3C's testing, and they know very well that this time, Toyota will suffer another setback!

A staff member of the Top-Gear program team has already reached a private agreement with Toyota to collect 20,000 pounds from Toyota as a remuneration, and use his position to report all the C3C tests in the UK to Toyota as soon as possible, and Toyota's board of directors was originally to discuss the price reduction sales strategy, and only less than ten major shareholders participated, but because it happened that Dongchen was being tested in the UK, the board of directors was temporarily suspended and several SUV engineers were summoned. At any time, we will assess the upcoming impact on Toyota's SUV market based on feedback from the UK

The Japanese often do things one step ahead of others, even in passivity, they try to maintain this advantage, at least, at present, there are so many car manufacturers in the world, only Toyota has the most efforts and the most profound understanding of Dongchen.

Toyota President Zhang Fujifu took the lead in breaking the strange silence of these dozens of people, laughed, quite a sense of joy in the bitterness, and said with a smile: "I think that in terms of the current characteristics of the Dongchen C3C, the most impacted should be Porsche, BMW, which pay attention to speed, speed." It has not been Toyota's main route, and at the moment, it seems that the situation is not the worst for us. ”

The chief designer of Toyota SUV R&D said: "Mr. President, I am not worried about the speed of Dongchen, indeed as you said, we Toyota have never pursued unnecessary speed, Toyota series." We pay attention to cost-effective, practical, comprehensive and perfect after-sales service, and Lexus has never blindly pursued speed, we pay attention to luxury and a sense of technology. However, what worries me the most is not the speed of this C3C, but. Dongchen's unique four-wheel drive system. ”

Speaking, the chief designer said: "The world, in addition to Dongchen, we are the deepest understanding of their four-wheel drive system, we have S3C prototype in hand, this four-wheel drive system has been studied in great detail, to be honest, it is too powerful, and the technology is too strong, we can't touch its core technology at all." This four-wheel drive system, if applied to SUVs, in the words of the Chinese, is like a fish in water, so. I'm not worried about the speed of the C3C, it's "

The chief designer paused at this point, Zhang Fujifu frowned, and asked: "Are you worried about the strong passing ability of C3C?" ”

"No," the chief designer said with a look of shame: "What I'm worried about is its comprehensiveness."

"Comprehensiveness" Zhang Fujifu also looked depressed.

yes, comprehensiveness.

The least scary thing is comprehensiveness. The most terrifying thing is also comprehensiveness.

There are too many so-called comprehensive models on the market, and they are not terrible, because they have no focus, no focus, which means that they are not competitive in a specific field, which is why Land Rover, Jeep and the like can dominate the off-road field in SUVs, and it is also the key to why the Cayenne has always been sought after, but the comprehensiveness of Dongchen is by no means a mediocre comprehensive, but a damn top comprehensive.

It has now beaten the Cayenne in terms of speed, that is to say, C3C can dominate in terms of speed, but its ability to pass must be undoubted, after all, its four-wheel drive system is there, powerful enough to make the world's four-wheel drive car manufacturers ashamed, and Dongchen has mastered the new material technology with super reliability, which means that it occupies an absolute advantage in at least three aspects of speed, passing ability and reliability. …,

If an SUV has mastered these three core advantages, then who else on the market can match it?

In the conference room, there was silence again.

A minute later, the computer connected to the projector by the assistant to the president received an email, which was sent from the mobile phone, which contained four photos of C3C in different directions, front face, rear of the car, side and full body photos.

These four photos were taken from a multi-million-pixel mobile phone, and even when displayed on a huge projection screen, they were still clear enough, and when everyone saw these four photos, the atmosphere in the conference room dropped to freezing again.

Beautiful, domineering, and ferocious, it is not something that can be described as modern, but a sense of the future

Even the designers were amazed, if this car really came out, then high-end consumers would almost have to defect, right? The Cayenne, which has always been known for its appearance, looks like a product of twenty years ago, like the difference between an AE86 and an Audi R8, like a Santana, and the difference between a Mercedes-Benz S series

Zhang Fujifu sighed and said: "I don't care about the rest of the tests, Dongchen will win is inevitable, let's step up the study of the problem of price reduction, before advocating to reduce the profit point by more than 30%, in order to maintain our market share, now it seems that this proportion will be expanded again." ”

C3C has completely humiliated four opponents on Jaguar's test ground!

Acceleration and extreme speed are all monopolized by C3C, and handling, these four cars are still not opponents.

After fusing the air suspension with the distribution of four-drive force, the central control computer has a better grasp of the body, and the BMW X5M, which has the best handling in the same corner, has one tire off the ground when it reaches a cornering speed of 135 kilometers, that is, this speed is already its limit.

But C3C Polar really lives up to its name of Polar Realm, 170 kilometers, passing smoothly.

In the camera lens, it is obvious that the suspension system of the C3C changes at the moment of entering the corner, and the body begins to tilt in the opposite direction of inertia, so as to increase the stability of the C3C without waiting for the exit of the corner. Just as the car starts to smash into the corner, it starts to pull back the suspension, and by the time the car is fully out of the corner, the suspension is back to normal.

This kind of control has killed all SUVs, and even all civilian cars, and no one can compare.

The program team returned to London for a night's rest. The next day, it was the highlight of the C3C test - the British tank test site.

The tank travels in a tracked mode, which not only has a large landing area. And the power distribution is very meticulous and even, dozens of tons of dead weight makes its grip unmatched, coupled with strong power. The ability to pass is incredible, and the ability to adapt to extreme roads is by no means comparable to that of civilian vehicles, so the various extreme road conditions in the tank test site are simply the graveyard of civilian vehicles.

It has deep pits that are enough to submerge the front of the Hummer, there are steep slopes that Range Rover can't climb even if the cylinder bursts, and there are muddy ground where the wheels will sink into it as soon as they enter, even if it is an SUV like Extreme, it is impossible to be competent for the extreme environment here, and the Top-Gear program team is also relatively pragmatic, they chose some road conditions that civilian cars can barely challenge in the huge field to test these five cars.

Continuous hilly steep slopes.

The highest peak is a mound more than 10 meters high and a valley floor more than 10 meters deep. The highest peak is connected to the lowest valley, forming a peak line, this line, even an ordinary light tank can not cope with it, so. The program team chose to shift the peak line, avoiding the highest peak and the lowest trough, and only tested in the buffer zone on one side of the peak line.

The Range Rover, which is highly promising, travels 30 meters to the right of the peak line, and the line remains parallel to the peak line, with gentle peaks and gentle slopes. Through smooth.

The more comprehensive Touareg also passed smoothly, but at a much slower pace than the Range Rover. …,

If Cayenne is the master of SUVs on the highway, then it is the grandson of SUVs on this kind of road, when climbing the first slope, it is a variety of scraping chassis, all kinds of lack of grip, barely driving a third, because the uphill angle is too large and completely lying down, can only take the valley road to return in embarrassment.

The BMW X5M is still miserable on this kind of road, you can hear the huge engine roar, it feels like an elephant climbing, although the strength is enough, but it is just difficult to deal with.

Eventually, the X5M failed halfway through, and like Cayenne, it returned via the valley path.

The last one to be tested is the C3C Polar Realm, the driving mode is selected Mountain, the suspension is raised, the power delivery mode has been changed, the torque is amplified to the extreme by the gearbox, and the speed is decisively abandoned at this time, just a mode change, it completes the latest power distribution, reduces the speed, and increases the torque.

C3C followed the same route as their first four rivals, and the route was very smooth, three minutes faster than the Range Rover.

The Range Rover took less than seven minutes to complete the race, and the C3C was three minutes faster, which means twice as fast!

But that's a Range Rover!

Even Jeremy was devastated!

He said to the camera with a frustrated face: "Although I admire Dongchen Motors very much, Land Rover, a local British brand, has always been my pride, but today, I finally found that Land Rover was surpassed by its opponents too much, the same route, C3C only took half the time of Land Rover" Speaking of this, Jeremy was a little hysterical and shouted: "This is a Range Rover!" The highest-spec Range Rover! Land Rover, do something for God's sake, and if it goes on like this, what else will you use to attract consumers?! The off-road performance you're most proud of has been beaten by others! ”

James May on the side comforted: "Jeremy, now it's just that C3C is taking the same route, a few minutes faster than Range Rover, we will move the route further to the peak line in the next step, perhaps, we will find a route that only Range Rover can pass, after all, Range Rover pursues off-road ability, not speed." ”

Jeremy pursed his lips and said, "I hope so, but at present, it seems that only the three cars of Range Rover, C3C and Touareg will be tested in the future." ”

Immediately, the program team moved the route five meters closer to the peak line.

Don't look at the translation of only five meters, but the peak height and valley depth on the line are also larger, and the difficulty naturally increases exponentially.

This time, the Touareg took the lead, and it was difficult for the Touareg to be the model that has been following the soy sauce, this car is the only one of the five test cars that costs no more than 1 million yuan, the acceleration is only higher than the Range Rover, the top speed is only more than the Range Rover, and the handling is the lowest. Now it has to be compared with the Range Rover top version, which costs nearly 3 million yuan, and the C3C, which has an unknown price but is menacing, which is a standard foil.

The Touareg's path was tortuous and painful, and it was pitiful to see it idling on all four wheels as it climbed. It's like a college sports meeting, where an unnamed opponent competes, and the rich and handsome Cayenne and the rich second-generation BMW quit the game at the beginning of the race. The muscular man Land Rover and the talented athlete C3C have led the way one after another, and the Touareg, who was born in silk, has no hope of victory. and unwilling to quit directly, in order to prove himself, he can only grit his teeth and insist desperately.

The Touareg drove nearly seventy percent of the way, and it took more than half an hour, and finally, halfway up the next steep slope, the Touareg could no longer find the grip, and the driver tried for a long time, the throttle kept banging, and a lot of exhaust fumes came out of the exhaust pipe. White smoke from the engine oil also came out of the hood, and after nearly ten minutes of trying, the person in charge of the program team spoke: "Let the Touareg drive back, don't waste time." ”…,

Everyone sighed for a while, trying to prove their Touareg. In the end, what was changed back was the sentence Don't waste time, a good reproduction of the scene of Bai Fumei's ruthless rejection of silk.

The Touareg returned in a state of despair, everyone was preparing for the next Land Rover, while Charlie Hammond on the side turned his face to the camera, grabbed his chin and said to himself: "I suddenly feel a little sad, maybe we shouldn't have counted this Touareg in the first five cars tested." Maybe it would be more reasonable for us to replace it with a Mercedes-Benz G65. ”

James May on the side patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't care about the Touareg, just focus on the performance of the Range Rover." ”

Range Rover departed.

This absolutely muscular men's SUV roared down the first steep slope, with a generous ambition to die, the Range Rover is focused on off-roading, this latest route, for which it is not a problem to pass, the only problem is that it takes too long.

Twenty-five minutes.

But fortunately, the Range Rover finally rushed over.

Jeremy crossed his waist and said with a blank face: "I don't know what to say, although I think the performance of the Range Rover is already very good, but looking at the C3C that has not yet started, I suddenly feel very unoptimistic......

C3C departed.

Perhaps judging from its appearance, it is more like a city car speeding on the highway, and it seems to be positioned as rich and handsome as Cayenne, and even placing him on the rough asphalt road, it feels that it has lost its identity, but he does not hesitate to rush to his own journey.

Strong torque output, as well as a powerful four-wheel drive system, makes it more flexible and brilliant than the Range Rover, uphill is not too laborious, very rarely occurs the phenomenon of wheel idling, the grip has been very in place, whenever he is about to go uphill, everyone feels that this car can not climb up is the most harmonious picture, but he is destined to be a big surprise, every slope, he is very easy.

The whole route took less than fifteen minutes.

Frustrated, Jeremy said: "If we move the line five more meters to the peak line, I'm afraid the Range Rover will not be able to cope at all, at present, the Range Rover is inferior to the C3C in all aspects, even if it has strong off-road ability, it is much worse than the C3C, the next test, will he be able to cope with it?" ”

The answer is no.

Flipping five metres again, the route was closer to the summit line, Range Rover only climbed the first two slopes, and in the eighteenth minute, he gave up completely in front of the third, and he also made an effort, and the wheels were idling for several minutes in a row, revealing the cruel reality that in front of this kind of surface, no matter what Range Rover did, it was just futile to do.

However, Jeremy is still secretly hoping that the C3C will not go further than the Range Rover, so that the Range Rover can save a bit of dignity in its ability to adapt to extreme road conditions.

But the C3C was created to disgrace other SUVs.

It effortlessly came to the front of the steep slope where the Range Rover was defeated, and then, the horsepower drove up suddenly, the front wheels after grabbing the steep slope, the four-wheel drive system allocated more power to the rear wheels, and the rear wheels made 80% of the car body have climbed the slope line, and the front wheels gained more power distribution, and then, the whole car rushed up.

After going uphill, the power distribution system of the C3C is extremely accurate, the four wheels are almost always evenly powered, the central control system continues to give the four wheels different power configurations according to the actual force of the car, he rushed to the slope that humiliated the Range Rover, and he also ran the rest of the road in one go.

It all took seventeen and a half minutes.

In other words, the Range Rover only covered two slopes in 18 minutes on the same route, less than a quarter of the entire route, while the C3C took less time to pass 100% of the route.

What else to play?

Jeremy said with a look of frustration: "It's like four elementary school students in a race, and the age gap between these four primary school students ranges from 6 to 12 years, so they all have different results, but when they have an Olympic champion in it, what's the point of the race?" ”

The people in the Top-Gear program group are extremely depressed, this feeling, Zhang Wenhao can also understand, as if the Chinese media invited table tennis teams from other countries to come to China to play a friendly match with the Chinese table tennis team, but they didn't expect to be completely defeated by foreign opponents, but this was originally the host's strength!

Jeremy walked up to Zhang Wenhao, pursed his lips for a long time, and said: "Zhang, I don't know when Dongchen will be able to put the product on the overseas market, but if the C3C is listed, can you sell me one first?" (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )