Every time Chery sends a new car, there is always a comment that "the designer really has no job to bite a lighter" and "If you can’t design, then learn from other car companies".
There are even netizens who are directly anxious and send out "I really can’t change it for me!" Comments.
However, the recent wave of new cars released by Chery car companies is surprising: it seems to directly imitate the design of other cars.
Manufacturer’s guide price: 129,900-172,900 yuan.
Body wheelbase: 2830mm
Powertrain 1: 135kw rear motor+53.87kWh battery.
Powertrain 1: 155 kW rear motor+67.12kWh battery
Pure battery life: 412/512km (CLTC working condition)
Some new cars released by Chery in recent years are somewhat controversial in appearance design. For example, Ou Mengda’s front face design is somewhat similar to Changan UNI-T’s "borderless" front face.
Arrizo 5GT’s headlights and mid-net design also have Lexas’ sense of sight.
Chery New Energy is the hardest hit area. The QQ ice cream car has not inherited the design style of the fuel version of Chery QQ at all, but looks like a modified model of Wuling Hongguang MINIEV.
Of course, Chery QQ, known as the "national car", was also suspected of copying Chevrolet Spark in its front face design. In that year, GM also sued Chery.
Chery Unbounded Pro is a mini version made like Aion Y.
Chery New Energy also has a discontinued "heavyweight" model-Big Ant. The car’s middle net and headlight group are designed with a "collar smell".
Why is it a "heavyweight"? This is because the design of Lectra’s headlights is controversial.
As the saying goes, "beauty is the same, but ugliness has its own merits" (not to say that the front face of Lingke is ugly), which can all hit the face, and the reasons behind it can be imagined.
The appearance design of Shu Xiangjia, the latest listing of Chery New Energy, has also caused controversy. The high emotional intelligence statement is: Thanks to Chery for letting us use 130,000 yuan to buy 1 million Lotus Eletre.
Split headlights are a very common design in 2023, but it really takes some skill to design the front face so similar to another car.
In fact, you said that Chery’s design in recent years was completely bad, right? That’s not true either. For example, Chery Tiggo 9 can easily see that this is a Tiggo series model.
The biggest problem with Chery’s design is that there is no inheritance, no unified tonality, which is what we often call "family design". Every car designer is flying himself.
There are a thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand readers, and each new Chery car also has its own "brand-new design".
Manufacturer’s guide price: 249,800-349,800 yuan.
Body wheelbase: 2950mm
Powertrain 1: 215 kW rear motor+62/82/100kWh battery
Powertrain 2: 360 kW dual motor+82kWh battery
Pure battery life: 550/705/855/630 km (CLTC working condition)
Despite Huawei’s blessing, the appearance of Zhijie S7 listed this week can still find the shadow of other brands.
In the front part, the headlights are wrapped in the design of bumper and fender, which is easily reminiscent of Porsche Taycan.
Porsche Taycan is the earliest high-performance luxury four-door tram. It is understood that Huawei and Chery want to realize the dream of young people driving Porsche.
But what young people want is "a handsome high-performance pure electric car like Taycan", not "a high-performance pure electric car like Taycan".
In addition to the front of the car, at first glance, the rear of the intellectual S7 is also full of the shadow of another car.
The taillight of Zhijie S7 looks like the designer buckled the taillight of Lincoln Continental and then pasted it on.
In fact, even if you want to learn from it, or just go as Lincoln’s designer thought, there is a better plan. For example, the taillights of the zero-run C01 adopted a similar style, but no one accused them of being like Lincoln Mainland.
Manufacturer’s guide price: 166,900-192,900 yuan.
Body wheelbase: 2830mm
Powertrain: 1.5t (156ps220n m)+2nd gear DHT.
Pure battery life: 55/108km (CLTC working condition)
Jetway launched a new car, Shanhai L9, in November. This car not only has the same name as the ideal L9, but also has a face-to-face design with the ideal first production car, Li ONE.
Although Shanhai L9 used split headlights and designed a set of lights around China Net, you can see at a glance the relationship between this car and Li ONE, just like the relationship between Jay Chou and Zhou Binglun.
Interestingly, the penetrating daytime running lights of Shanhai L9 are more similar to the ideal L9. I didn’t expect Jetway to have an "iterative upgrade". He really, I cried to death.
You said that the hybrid SUV with penetrating running lights, how come other brands are not like Li ONE? If it weren’t for these cars, I thought the hybrid SUV could only grow into an ideal one!
Manufacturer’s guide price: 53,900-69,900 yuan.
Body wheelbase: 2160mm
Powertrain 1: 35kW front motor+17.69kWh battery
Powertrain 2: 40kW front motor+28.08kWh battery
Pure battery life: 201/301km (CLTC working condition)
Before talking about this car, we should first sort out the relationship between Kaiyi and Chery, otherwise we may have wronged our "science man".
Kaiyi was originally a sub-brand established by Chery in 2014, and its models featured a "shell change".
Later, part of Kaiyi’s equity was sold to Yibin Automobile Industry Development Investment Co., Ltd. and Sichuan Yibin Pushi Group Co., Ltd., of which the latter is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wuliangye.
At present, Chery still holds 47.82% equity of Kaiyi, so it is no problem to call Kaiyi "Chery Department".
Back to Kaiyi Picking Up the Moon, this car has a name full of China traditional poetry, but its appearance is suspected of copying smart, a joint venture between Mercedes-Benz and Geely. (We didn’t use "suspected plagiarism" in all the cars in front. )
The front face lamp module is almost a cheap miniature version of smart, and the bumper also uses the same T-shaped line.
The D-pillar shape on the side is the most accusing part of plagiarism: the D-pillar design of the iconic roof cover of this generation of smart and the round logo are used.
The shape of the headlights at the rear of the car, even the sheet metal of the door, is the shadow of smart.
In addition, don’t say, "It’s not that samrt can’t afford it, but that Kaiyi is more cost-effective."
In fact, this car is not cheap, and the starting price is as high as 53,900 yuan. With this money, isn’t it sweet to buy Lumin originally designed by Chang ‘an?
Ironically, official website of Kaiyi still hangs the words "young, innovative and authentic".