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Think about the large-scale successful SUVs in later generations in China and even around the world. You just need to have a more prominent appearance to show your personality.

There is no shortage of such representatives in China for the round front car series, but Jin Xiaoqiang doesn’t want this Enclave to take such a route anymore, and he plans to find another way.

And this Enclave actually had its own embarrassments when it was born.

When Buick's designers designed this car, it happened to be after the Audi q7 was launched and became a great success. At that time, they were influenced by Audi's rounded appearance design. Enclave's designers

, then I thought of starting with Buick’s always tough appearance and using this car as a pioneer in Buick’s appearance change.

Although Buick has put a lot of effort into this car, equipped with one of Ward's top ten engines in the world, and made a big fuss about the load-bearing structure of the body, from the birth of this car, it has been

It is a short tui product, and its shortcomings are precisely due to its appearance, which is considered very successful by Buick designers.

While trying to imitate the rounded appearance of Audi Q7 and Toyota models, it also tried to retain the family atmosphere of Buick. This happened to be the biggest failure of this car in the Chinese market.

Later, even after this car was launched, it was widely used as a gimmick by General Motors, calling it Buick's best masterpiece in ten years. But the real test of a car's success is its market sales.

As a result, the performance of this car after it was launched in the U.S. market was pretty good. It was once sold out of stock, but it soon became mediocre.

Later, it was Cadillac's "SRX" that became a great success in the American market and has been enduring for a long time because that car authentically reflected Cadillac's personality.

This car in the same column has always had poor performance since it was launched in China. The high-end cannot compete with the Audi q7 series, and the mid-range cannot compete with Toyota's Highlander. It can only live without embarrassment.

But this time this car fell into the hands of Jin Xiaoqiang, and of course he would not allow such a situation to happen again.

As the main high-end SUV in the Qoros series, how could he let this car fall down on its appearance?

In fact, before the rebirth of Jin Xiaoqiang in later generations, there were many new versions of SUVs whose appearance could be used for reference, and there were also many models with similar appearance and concept to Buick.

For example, this time Jin Xiaoqiang wants to change the appearance of this Enclave...

When Jin Xiaoqiang changed the appearance of this car, he first enlarged the front smiling air intake on the front face, changing the original Angkor's extremely awkward air intake pattern and adding air intake

The grille is enlarged, but the recent grille pattern is still the three-dimensional waterfall pattern he used on Qoros.

Then the mediocre daytime running lights and fog lights were changed into a sharper fang pattern.

At the same time, the original eye-bulb lamp, which seemed extremely dull, was changed to be flatter and sharper.

Then the waistline and eyeliner were made sharper, and the original nondescript round butt was removed, replaced with a more linear and sharp three-dimensional pattern, and an upturned window was installed on the rear window.

It looks like a playful little windshield.

In this way, a brand-new Enclave's appearance was born. If there were people who traveled through time together with Jin Xiaoqiang, and people who knew about cars saw this car, they might immediately cover their mouths and curse Jin Xiaoqiang.

Shameless.

Isn't this just an enlarged version of the Mazda CX-5?

Hehe, it's a pity that Enclave's concept cars will not be released until the end of 2006, and the Mazda cx-5

?I guess these days, Mazda’s designers haven’t started thinking about designing a model yet!

What's more, the front face of Mazda's CX-5 is somewhat similar to the front face of Buick. Even in Jin Xiaoqiang's last life, no one from the two families dared to say who copied whom, let alone

Now?

When he saw the appearance design drawing of this brand new Enclave that Jin Xiaoqiang took out, Wuyun Gaowa was really shocked and speechless.

Faced with such a genius, Wu Yungaowa really didn't know what to say. Some designers may never be able to design car models in their lifetime, but this guy actually picked up cabbage on the roadside, just picking it up in two or three months.

Come up with one.

How does his head grow? Is this guy from an alien planet?

As a forward-looking designer, Wuyun Gaowa certainly knows the importance of this SUV model. Now in the high-end market, the popular trend has become more and more obvious.

That is, the richer people are, the more they like large cars. Cars such as ordinary Mercedes-Benz and BMW can no longer satisfy the consumption concepts of rich people.

In fact, all car dealers have vaguely noticed that the real high-end market in the future will actually be the market for high-end SUVs.

I see that BMW has launched the BMW x5... and this car has been very popular as soon as it was launched on the market. Are you now starting to design a more high-end BMW PS?

And now even Porsche has joined in. Porsche, which was originally in the sports car market, launched their high-end SUV Cayenne in 2002, and now it has become a great success in high-end markets around the world.

At the same time, Mercedes-Benz also launched the GLK series one after another, and even luxury cars such as Maserati were rumored to be entering the SUV market again.

And now, not long after Jin Xiaoqiang launched his Qoros car series, he launched this car as a high-end flagship SUV. This young man's sense of smell is really keen.

And it is no exaggeration to say that just seeing the appearance of this car, Wu Yun can guarantee that as long as this car is equipped with a suitable powertrain and high-end luxury interior, as long as it is launched on the market, then this car will

The car can become an instant hit.

Moreover, this car is a real full-size SUV, different from nondescript products like the Cayenne. The most important thing is that Jin Xiaoqiang also told him that he plans to try this car to change the way that luxury SUVs have been used in the past.

Non-load-bearing structure.

Jin Xiaoqiang plans to use the BFI body-integrated molding technology originally used by Enclave. It is this technology that makes this car have great handling and safety even though it is not flattering in appearance.

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Everyone knows that in order to emphasize safety, ordinary high-end luxury SUVs generally adopt a non-load-bearing body, that is, adding a few beams to the chassis.

This kind of large beam not only increases the dead weight and fuel consumption of the car body, but also provides a certain degree of safety for the occupants in the car. It also provides the solid and durable nature of the car body, making the car's passing performance stronger and adaptable.

The road surface is more capable.

However, this also brings certain shortcomings to a high-end car, that is, it sometimes seems difficult to control, and its comfort is greatly reduced.

It was the original Enclave's breakthrough in this area that made this car recognized by many consumers as soon as it was launched in North America.

While having a large body, it also has the comfort and simplicity of handling of an ordinary urban SUV. This was Enclave's original biggest selling point.

This time Jin Xiaoqiang plans to copy such a car, and of course he does not intend to let go of this selling point, but this will put their factory's finishing capabilities to a certain test.

Fortunately, this one-piece molding technology is actually not difficult for Jin Xiaoqiang, but this concept has just emerged these days, and it has been praised by manufacturers such as Audi that have used this technology.

In fact, this so-called one-piece molding technology does not really stamp the entire car body in one go. There are still welded parts inside, and there are quite a lot of them.

The entire process is actually to use sharp materials of different strengths in different parts of the car body, then stamp them, and then use laser welding to weld the stamped parts together. In this way, it will not be like ordinary welding.

There are such ugly solder joints.

Moreover, the strength of the entire formed body will be higher than that of ordinary welded bodies.

This kind of technology is still a bit mysterious these days, but it's a pity that in a few years, even ordinary street cars worth tens of thousands of dollars will dare to use this kind of technology.

However, these days, if such technology is adopted, especially by China’s independent car companies, then Jin Xiaoqiang is really like a scorpion. It’s just that the current laser welding technology is not available in their factory. It seems that when the time comes

We still have to wait for Jin Xiaoqiang to look around and see if he can get a set of such technology from others.

And another model is Buick's 10th MPV Buick G18.

In fact, the MPV market has always been tepid in China. Domestic families have little interest in such models, but general enterprises or government agencies will purchase more such models.

Buick's old MPVGL8 has been the dominant player in this field in China for so many years. Even the internationally famous Honda Odyssey faces this G18 in China.

Sometimes I have to lie down.

Currently, the GL8 sold by SAIC-GM has been doing well in China and has been the sales leader of this model for a long time, so they have no intention of remodeling this MPV.

It took six years for the replacement of the new generation. The old Buick GL8 was no longer acceptable to consumers, so they came up with a corresponding new model, which is the new 10 model with obvious Buick family characteristics.

Buick gl8.

This new type of MPV has become very popular since it was launched on the market, and continues to dominate the MPV sales championship.

Therefore, Jin Xiaoqiang is still very satisfied with this car and does not plan to make too many adjustments.