A few days ago, we learned from Geely Automobile, Geely Cowboy officially launched, the new car official positioning “light cross-country SUV”, equipped with a relatively hardcore appearance package, and in the rear of the car to add a “small bag” to expand storage space.
Geely Cowboy adopts the new trend of cross-country square box shape design language, bold front grille, wide wheelbrow and type of large surroundings show the cowboy's hardcore temperament, at the same time the cowboy in the body around the body and cleverly integrated into the design of a number of rounded rectangle, to meet the young people on the hard-core light cross-country and the exquisite fashion of the pursuit of the dual. The new car carries a split light group, above is a penetrating LED light belt, below is a longitudinal arrangement of high and low beam group, looks very avant-garde.
On the side of the body, the new car adopts a large number of straight line design, square outline with two-color body and floating roof layout, making the vehicle look very powerful. The new car's door handles are of conventional design, and the details including door handles, exterior mirrors, and body markings are blacked out, making the visual effect even cooler. In terms of dimensions, the new car's length, width and height are 4,369 (4,442) / 1,860 / 1,770mm, with a wheelbase of 2,640mm.
The rear of the spare tire type small schoolbag design can be said to be the finishing touch, but this small schoolbag is not a spare tire but a small storage space, and adopts a waterproof design, built-in mesh bag separation area, can be in the wading, rain, the beach and other scenarios to store the relevant equipment, the taillights are also used in a rectangular design, frosted sense of the taillights to make the new car looks more advanced, the black rear surroundings are echoed with the entire car, catering to the style of the tough and sporty. The black rear surround echoes the whole car, catering to the tough and sporty style. In addition, the new car also provides oversized roof cross-country equipment rack on the roof, roof rack cargo area of 1.3 square meters, the maximum load capacity of 50 kilograms, looks full of sporty and power.
Inside the car, Geely Cowboy interior overall style both technology and fashion, equipped with 14.6-inch center control screen, built-in Flyme Auto car system, with 12nm process, 8-core CPU E02 high-performance cockpit chip, faster response speed. The new car system interaction logic is more simple and clear, and supports desktop super customization function.
The seats of the Geely Cowboy are designed with a patchwork of leather, denim, and faux suede fabrics. Among them, the main passenger seat also has a Born Free logo, reflecting the free and trendy cowboy atmosphere. In addition, the new car also comes standard with 6-way power adjustment for the main driver and automatic climate control.
In terms of space performance, Geely Cowboy is also very good. Although the positioning of A0-class SUV, but thanks to the “short front and rear suspension” design concept, the back row can get A-class SUV space experience. The whole car 42 storage space, with the car items can be categorized storage. The whole system is equipped with automatic climate control, and are equipped with rear air vents, and optimize the air flow path, so that the temperature of the car is more uniform, the rear passengers body surface wind speed body feeling is also more comfortable.
Power, the new car is equipped with a 1.5T engine, maximum power of 133 kW, maximum torque of 290 Nm, with which is matched with a 7-speed wet dual-clutch transmission, suspension using the front MacPherson independent suspension + rear multi-link independent suspension combination.
The higher-priced Fun Wild Edition adds front and rear head airbags, L2-level assisted driving, adaptive high beams, passenger power seat, rear center armrest + cup holder, and multi-color ambient lighting on top of the above.
At present, Geely Automobile has laid out two models in the small SUV model segment, Colorful and Geely ICON, and with the listing of Geely Cowboy, Geely Automobile's products in this market segment will be more complete. Comprehensive positioning and price of the new car, the new car will compete with Geely Colorado, Dongfeng Honda XR-V, Baojun Yue also Plus, Chery iCAR 03 and other models after the listing. Nowadays, the square-box styled models have become more and more popular among young groups, as a small fuel SUV, Geely Cowboy still has certain advantages in terms of exterior design and configuration.
Although Geely Cowboy is equipped with off-road kit and AT tires, its off-road performance is relatively limited due to its load-bearing body and the lack of four-wheel drive system. However, not all consumers who buy “square box” SUVs have hardcore off-road needs, and some consumers just like the hardcore design. Geely Cowboy has a wealth of storage space, the actual experience of the seats also has a good degree of comfort, to improve the ride experience, but also more in line with its “light off-road” SUV positioning.
As a shell model of Geely ICON, Geely Cowboy enhances the off-road attributes in the design and looks a little more personalized. In addition, it is cheaper than the ICON, the cost-effective is still quite high, and will focus on the young consumer market in the future.