BYD seems to have revealed what the F will stand for with its new off-roader model: Fang Cheng Bao, which interprets actually to System Leopard.
A web page has been created on Chinese language social media community Weibo for Fang Cheng Bao and, given an earlier copyright submitting for it by BYD, it seems to be a lock.
Not content material with simply rolling out its high-end Yangwang model, with its Mercedes-Benz G-Class-rivalling U8 SUV, it’s now rolling out the Fang Cheng Bao model with a boxy SUV of its personal.
The brand new model will slot in below Yangwang, with a worth vary of between 400-600,000 yuan (A$84,060 to $126,091). That’s proper round what the Land Rover Defender prices in Australia.
The as-yet unnamed Fang Cheng Bao mode, codenamed SF, is ready to be revealed this month.
Photographs shared on Chinese language media earlier this yr reveal boxy, upright styling within the vein of the Defender, Ford Bronco, and a raft of recent Chinese language SUVs just like the Jetour Traveller and GWM Tank 300, right down to the tailgate-mounted spare tyre service.
Spy photographs reveal an opulent cabin with leather-wrapped surfaces and metal- and crystal-look switches.
Chinese language media experiences point out the SF measures 5m lengthy with a 2.8m wheelbase, and can use a 507km plug-in hybrid powertrain with a mixed vary of 1000km on the CLTC cycle.
It can additionally reportedly use BYD’s new DiSus-P suspension system, often known as the Clever Hydraulic Physique Management System, which additionally options within the Yangwang U8.
This may management the oil consumption of the damper, damping adjustment valve, and stiffness adjustment valve, whereas providing journey of as much as 200mm.
This method can even carry all 4 wheels concurrently, or independently for a single wheel. BYD claims it will probably present an instantaneous 200 per cent enhance in stiffness throughout high-speed cornering or different “intense” driving situations, whereas additionally decreasing impression load in a collision.
Yangwang and Fang Cheng Bao be part of the Denza model, previously a three way partnership with Daimler which BYD has now assumed management of. It slots in beneath each manufacturers when it comes to pricing.
It’s unclear if Fang Cheng Bao – and Yangwang, for that matter – might be exported from China.
BYD is busily embarking on a large world enlargement, with its namesake model having just lately entered markets like Australia and Europe.
With its export program, nevertheless, it has been specializing in its electrical automobiles and never its plug-in hybrids.
The Chinese language automaker solely produces electrical and plug-in hybrid automobiles as of final yr.
