Land Rover's Discovery Sports Edition has always been tepid. What is its strength?

As a so-called luxury brand in European cars, Jaguar Land Rover's popularity has been declining since its joint production with Chery Automobile. Some people think that the decline in sales is because Chery's brand design is not satisfactory, which has affected consumers' judgment on Land Rover to some extent. There is no denying that such factors exist. Chery is really not strong among state-owned car companies. Over the years, there have been more sub-brands and more failed brands. Therefore, Chery Jaguar Land Rover really makes people think more about some issues. But the core factor is the poor quality control level of Land Rover itself, which is admitted by the CEO of Land Rover himself, that is, the so-called 6,543.8+10,000 vehicles lost money because of quality control; Secondly, after the brand positioning of Land Rover is not so high-end, the strength and price of its products simply don't match, such as 202 1 Discovery Sports Edition.

It doesn't feel high, because medium-sized cars are always big, and it seems that the series is not small. 4597* 1904* 1727 and wheelbase 274 1mm are the body dimensions of discoverysports. What kind of medium-sized car is this? An SUV with a body length of less than 4.6 meters can be defined as a medium-sized car. It seems that besides looking for the sports edition, exploring Yue is also a trend. The wheelbase cannot absolutely represent the spatial level, and the body is small. Even if the front and rear axles are placed on the front and rear outside of the car, the interior is very small. Therefore, it is found that the five-seat space experience of the sports version is more reasonable, and the seven-seat version is like a joke. It will be difficult for adults to sit in the third row. Land Rover is an off-road benchmark among British car brands, just like Jeep represents off-road vehicles in the United States. When it comes to discovery series, it is always associated with off-road vehicles, but it is found that the sports version is just an ordinary urban SUV, and the level of the drive system is still an entry-level standard-horizontal four-wheel drive.

The two-wheel drive of the horizontal engine will be "front drive" and the rear axle transmission system will be four-wheel drive; Although this system is different from ordinary timely four-wheel drive (defined as full-time four-wheel drive), it is essentially only a four-wheel drive system of Hande Five Dynasties, with a transmission ratio of 95:5 before and after, just like Tiguan L and Suzuki Vitera. In fact, Volvo is the only luxury brand that uses this system, and its level is actually very average. Both versions adopt light mixing system, that is, the internal combustion engine integrates BSG power generation and starter, which can assist the low-power motor to output power when starting; This kind of motor can't drive the vehicle independently, so it is found that there is no difference between the sports version and the fuel car.

Then the power level of this car can be well judged. Low power 200PS is the level of ordinary scooter, and 249PS only breaks the standard of 8 seconds 100. Such a luxurious brand SUV has neither off-road capability nor ideal acceleration. Elk tested less than 70 km/h, and found that the sports version of the transmission is ZF Transverse 9AT, which is also a transmission without any bright spots. Comprehensive analysis of the engine strength, transmission level and the characteristics of horizontal four-wheel drive shows that the real value of this car is only comparable to that of Ford Sharp Edge with the same size, and the 249PS version can be compared with Angkewei S with intelligent cylinder changing technology or boundary detector. In other words, it is found that the sports version is much more expensive than the Volvo XC series, and its functions are the same, but it is found that the strength of 5 is indeed stronger than that of XC90.