When buying a car, people will always consider cost performance, and it is undeniable that this is indeed quite critical, but in addition to cost performance, a car's brand power, product power, and sense of quality are equally important. The new C11 has been on the market for a while now, and the car still continues the explosive potential in 2022 and 2023, taking 2023 as an example, the Leapmotor C11 has delivered a total of 80,616 units, which is the sales champion of the 15-200,000 new energy mid-size SUV segment in 2023, and is also the star player of Leapmotor.
Now, the new C11 is based on the new four-leaf clover central integrated electronic and electrical architecture, its cockpit, intelligent driving, body, power height integration, and the whole system is like this, the new and upgraded Leap new C11 in the cockpit, intelligent driving, driving control, version, interior and exterior design and other aspects have been comprehensively improved, then today we will take the new C11 of Leap and BYD Song PLUS DM-i, which also has good sales performance, to see who can play better.
First of all, in terms of the configuration of the two cars, the new C11 of Leapmotor is given L2 level auxiliary driving functions including lane departure warning, forward collision warning, rear collision warning, reversing side warning, DOW door opening warning, active braking, merging assist, lane keeping assist system, lane centering, road traffic sign recognition, narrow road assist, full-speed adaptive cruise, automatic parking and other functions, on the other hand, Song PLUS Even if DM-i is a 110KM flagship PLUS with a guide price of 149,800 yuan, it only has lane departure warning, forward collision warning, active braking, lane keeping assist system, lane centering, full-speed adaptive cruise and other auxiliary driving functions, which are obviously much inferior in this regard.
What's more, the new C11 of Leapmotor also provides a smart driving version with lidar, equipped with 30 high-precision perception hardware including lidar + Orin-X chip + 5G communication + high-precision map, which can realize up to 24 auxiliary driving functions. You must know that the guide price of the entry version of the new C11 is 148,800 yuan, which is 1000 yuan cheaper than the 110KM flagship PLUS version of Song PLUS DM-i.
Compared with the positioning of the Song PLUS DM-i compact SUV, the positioning of the new C11 mid-size SUV is higher, not to mention, the wheelbase of 2930 mm is significantly superior to the 2765 mm wheelbase of the Song PLUS DM-i. The longer wheelbase also brings more space and ultra-high space utilization for the new C11, the whole car not only has 18 storage spaces and 8 charging units, but also the volume of the trunk can reach 840L after expansion, and its pure electric version of the model also has an ultra-low body drag coefficient of 0.282Cd. The interior is available in slate gray + fog purple and black + camel hair brown, and the new camel hair brown color scheme is also more advanced and more classy.
Of course, this is not counting, Leap new C11 upgraded to a new 14.6-inch 2.5k high-definition central suspension screen, while standard10.25-inch full LCD instrument panel and 10.25-inch co-pilot screen, Song PLUS DM-i is not equipped with a co-pilot screen, the car's car machine fluency and display effect are relatively good, However, compared with the new C11 of Leapmotor, the resolution of 2.5k is still much inferior, especially the new C11 of Leapmotor also uses Qualcomm's latest generation of Snapdragon SA8295P cockpit platform, its smoothness and color reproduction have reached the top level in the industry today, and its computing power is 7 times ahead of similar models.
In addition, the new C11 also adopts a new generation of voice assistant, which not only improves the speed of wake-up and recognition, but also supports functions such as no-wake-up, 60-second continuous dialogue, global visible and speakable, dialect recognition, etc., in terms of human-computer interaction, you don't have to speak Mandarin, you can speak Cantonese, Sichuan and other dialects. The new C11 also adopts a new high-quality 12-speaker music cockpit, the interior of the car adopts 7.1 surround acoustic design, with self-developed professional-grade amplifiers and 8 self-developed sound effects, you can have an auditory feast anytime and anywhere, and the new C11 of Leapmotor can be matched with the co-pilot screen, there is no problem with karaoke, watching dramas, and watching short videos during the journey.
The new C11 of Leapmotor provides extended range and pure electric dual power, and the Song PLUS series also provides Song PLUS DM-i and Song PLUS EV, corresponding to the plug-in hybrid version and pure electric version respectively. Among them, the new C11 range extender version of Leapmotor uses a 1.5L range extender and a motor with a maximum power of 200 kilowatts, and the official acceleration time of the entry version can be 7.8 seconds.
The Song PLUS DM-i is composed of a 1.5L engine and a motor with a maximum power of 145 kilowatts, and the maximum engine power is 81 kilowatts. On the other hand, the new C11 extended range entry version of Leapmotor can give 200 kilometers of pure electric range under CLTC working conditions, which alone is much stronger than the highest 150 km NEDC pure electric range of Song PLUS DM-i, not to mention that in addition to the entry version, the rest of the extended range versions are 300 kilometers of CLTC pure electric range. Pure electric range and other features.
The kindness of the new C11 is not only reflected in this, in the case of the same price models generally using the front MacPherson independent suspension and the rear multi-link independent suspension, the new C11 adopts the combination of the front double wishbone and rear five-link independent suspension of the luxury car, the hardware itself is much more generous than the Song PLUS DM-i, and the pure electric version of the model also adds FSD variable damping shock absorber, which increases the suppression of vibration and roll by 10% and the impact comfort by 20%. To put it bluntly, it has better comfort during driving, and takes into account the driving experience, even if the car's volume is large enough, it is also easy to drive.
Through comparison, it is not difficult to find that the new and upgraded Leapmotor new C11 not only continues the advantages of Leapmotor C11 in past sales, but also has great improvements in architecture, intelligent cockpit, intelligent driving, driving control, interior and exterior design, etc., compared with BYD Song PLUS DM-i, Leapmotor new C11 still has strong advantages. What's more, the new C11 of Leapmotor has been upgraded to three gradients of intelligent enjoyment, exclusive enjoyment and intelligent driving, which not only increases the amount compared with the previous configuration, but also reduces the price, as well as the LiDAR intelligent driving version, which can deliver more than 80,000 vehicles per year before, and now the new and upgraded Leapmotor new C11 is bound to reach a new peak in terms of sales.