BYD F5 is a high-tech Chinese sedan

Chinese sedan, car BYD F5 at the end of summer 2014 will be able to buy car owners recently. The F5 rate will be the third BYD model offered in the automotive market recently. BYD's new high-tech compact sedan F5 will become the BYD C6 crossover and business class sedan, the BYD F7, also known as the BYD G6.

It's not for nothing that we called the BYD F5 sedan a high-tech car, and it's not just that the car is equipped with a unique parking and maneuvering system, which we will talk about in detail B … but a little later. Available naturally aspirated and turbocharged petrol and 1.5-liter engines with outputs of 109 and 153 horsepower, a choice of three transmissions – two mechanics with 5 and 6 steps, automated mechanical 6 DCT with dual clutch, equipment weight, providing comfort and entertainment, as well as the title of the safest car in China with five stars from C-NCAP. So there's a lot to talk about, especially since in China, the bad F5 has been on sale for nearly two years since August 2012 at a pricefrom 65,900 to 99,900 yuan (368-558 thousand) and exported to South America, Africa, the Middle East, and perhaps even appear in Europe.

The body design of the F5 bid does not impress with the sophistication of the forms and the intricacy of the stamping and rib fashion. Before us is a classic sedan with a frankly not flashy appearance, representing BYD, perhaps in a highly competitive class C. This faceless and insipid car cannot be called either. Rather, the body is normal and well-tailored for the broad and international masses of motorists.

• The external dimensions of the body for the BYD F5 in 2014-2015 are 4680 mm long, 1765 mm wide, 1490 mm high, wheelbase 2660 mm, 125 mm ground clearance (clearance). For recently, they promise to increase the ground clearance of the new sedan to 170 mm. With the standard installation of R16 rubber on 205/55 on 16 wheels, the size is exclusively made of light alloy, the front track is 1525 mm rear track. The track is 1520 mm.

According to the Chinese manufacturer, the body of the sedan is made of strong and high-strength steel, the weight of the sedan at the curb, depending on the installed engine, gearbox and additional equipment, varies between 1330 and 1395 kg, the volume of the fuel tank is 50 liters.

At the front of the body has large slanted headlights with a small beam of optics between them and visually a grille. The flat surface of the bonnet slightly swoons to update the ribs on the outer edges with the transitions of the wheel arch lugs. A simple bumper with tiny reception and cheap inserts with foglights. Well, large size mirrors with turn signal repeaters.

The profile of the sedan body with three volumes: a fairly long and sloping bonnet, large doorways and a flat roof line, a heavy stern, providing a decent-sized luggage compartment that allows you to count on 450 liters of volume. The side of the F5 bid looks old-fashioned as well as on the back.

Feeding the Chinese from the sedan to the BYD F5 may draw attention, except perhaps solid in form and substance with LED marker lights. The rest of the rear end is simplicity itself, from the trunk with a traditional Chinese car chrome strip to the exaggerated bumper.
The body of the new byd key F5 sedan is offered recently, painted in five different colors, you can choose from five options: white, silver, blue, red and black.

Interior The Chinese New sedan bid F5 2014 makes a double impression. On the one hand, frankly budget materials, this also applies to leather on the seats, hard plastic on the front panel, sticky inserts on the center console and door cards, amorphous seats for the driver and front passenger. On the other hand, the sedan, stuffed with a bunch of modern equipment, has an enviable supply of free space in the second row and impresses with very rich equipment even in the initial configuration.
It makes no sense to describe the level of technology in each version, potential buyers can look at the content options on the BYD official website recently.

We will talk about the most, in our opinion, the main equipment. In the cabin, the F5 has a modern instrument panel with dimmable and selectable backlight colors, and a large 4.3-inch TFT color LED screen, an on-board computer, a multi-function display on the center console (temperature in the cabin and outside, sensor readings, timeliness information date and time).

Multifunctional steering wheel with adjustment, but only in height, remote key identification system, Smart key system and engine start with a button, standard immobilizer and remote central locking, ISOFIX standard child seat mounts, air conditioning, audio system with 6 speakers (CD, MP3, radio, USB, AUX input), leather interior, frontal airbags, power steering, ABS and EBD, and this is already in the basic configuration.

In richer versions of the BYD F5 car, the original car remote control will appear: the driver, being in the car or outside it at a distance of no more than 10 meters, can control his car using this gadget, the car with parking sensors and cameras of the all-round view system in full sense sees everything and is able to move at a speed of 0.5 to 2 miles, to calculate the trajectory in the parking lot and stop 10 cm from the obstacle.

Also side airbags and curtain airbags, cruise control, electric driver's seat (8 areas), front and rear parking sensors with 4 or 6 sensors, rear view camera, electric sunroof, color touch screen multimedia system (DVD, USB and AUX, Bluetooth, TV, Navi GPS navigation), 10 speakers, traction control system (assist when starting uphill), electric parking brake (electric parking brake), parking assistance system (parking assistant), ESP and electric power steering.

Technical characteristics of the Chinese auto novelty 2014 byd F5 sedan, based on a chassis with front-wheel drive, front independent suspension with MacPherson struts and rear semi-independent suspension with a beam on torsion bars, all-wheel disc brakes.

• The base 1.5-liter BYD473QE engine (109 hp and 145 Nm) paired with a 5 manual transmission will provide a top speed of 166 km/h.
• A more powerful 1.5-liter turbocharged byd 476ZQA engine (153 hp 240 Nm) in tandem with a 6 manual transmission or a 6-speed DCT with a pair of clutches. Top speed 190 kmh acceleration 8.9 seconds to 100 km / h, average fuel consumption 6.5 liters.

Here you have a modest Chinese sedan, but with such high-tech equipment, modern electronic systems and gadgets, a powerful turbocharged engine and a bid F5 6-speed gearbox – a unique offering in the class. The main thing is that all this works and does not break.