Equation Leopard Leopard 8 officially ushered in the listing, the new car launched a total of four models, priced at 37.98-40.78 million yuan. The new car power will be equipped with a 2.0T engine and motor composed of DMO plug-in hybrid system, and equipped with the Cloud Chariot-P, the car is equipped with DiLink 150 car machine, BYD 9000 chip, and will also be equipped with Huawei Qian Kun Zhi Driving ADS 3.0.
Looking at the new car, the Leopard 8 continues to adopt the ‘future starship aesthetics’ and looks tall and powerful. The front end is equipped with penetrating LED daytime running lights, the two sides of the C shape and grille well integrated, the engine cover through the centre of the obvious recessed lines to further enhance the power of the front end. In terms of body colours, the new car is available in Star and Moon Silver, Dawn Gold and Night Shadow Black.
Body side view, the new car has a straight and hard line design, looks muscular. In terms of body dimensions, the length, width and height of the Equation Leopard Leopard 8 are 5195/1994/1875 (including roof racks 1905) mm, with a wheelbase of 2920 mm; in normal mode, the approach angle is 30 °, departure angle 29 °, longitudinal angle of 18 °, ground clearance 220 mm; the Yun-victoria - P suspension is adjusted to the highest case, the approach angle of up to 34 °, the maximum angle of 35 ° departure angle, The maximum approach angle is 34°, the maximum departure angle is 35°, the maximum longitudinal passing angle is 26°, and the maximum ground clearance is 310mm.
The doors of the Leopard 8 are equipped with electric suction function and also support Huawei Hongmeng and Apple dual-system UWB mobile phone car key; Android, Hongmeng and Apple triple-system mobile phone NFC car key function, which makes it easy to get into the car. At the rear, the Leopard 8 comes with a wrap-around spare wheel cover, inspired by the planetary rings, which, together with the rectangular taillight clusters on both sides and the silver rear bumper, reflects the hardcore off-road style.
Interior view, the new car continues the equation leopard family design language, equipped with 12.3 inch full LCD instrument + 17.3 inch centre control screen + 12.3 inch passenger screen + 50 inch AR-HUD combination, and support linkage function, the car built-in DiLink 150 system, and equipped with BYD 9000 chip, equipped with AI big model. In addition, it also supports ‘Fang Hua’ hand-car interconnection, Huawei mobile phone commonly used applications can be directly transferred to the Leopard 8 car machine.
The car is designed with three rows of seats, with 6 and 7 seats available, and all the seats are wrapped in leather and electrically adjustable, supporting one-key adjustment and flexible entry and exit. In addition, the car is equipped with cold and warm refrigerator, 128-colour ambient lighting, fragrance system and 18-speaker Diwali sound system, to enhance the five senses experience.
In terms of safety, the new car is equipped with a 300-metre infrared night market system and 14 airbags as standard across the board. Wise driving will be equipped with Huawei Qian Kun Wise Driving ADS 3.0 system, which can achieve the NCA Wise Driving Pilot Assist ‘parking space to parking space’ of the whole scene through, in addition to leaving the car into the parking, parking on behalf of the car, and remote parking and other functions.
In terms of power, the DMO platform adopted by Equation Leopard 8 is a plug-in hybrid platform, equipped with a 2.0T engine (can be added 92# petrol) with a maximum power of 150kW, with the front 200kW, rear 300kW drive motor with a combined output of up to 550kW, the system torque of up to 760N-m. In the intelligent electric four-wheel-drive system, the accelerating time of 0-100km/h is 4.8 seconds, in addition, it also has the NCA intelligent driving navigation assistance ‘full scene’, in addition, there are also off-parking, parking, driving and remote moving. 4.8 seconds, in addition it also has 125km of pure electric range and 1200km of combined range, NEDC fuel consumption is 8.5L/100km, and supports 6kW external discharge function.
In addition, the new car adopts a non-load-bearing body and is equipped with the Cloud Chariot-P system, which can adjust the softness, height and stiffness of the chassis, with an adjustable range of 140mm of suspension travel, and a wading depth of 800-890mm.The Leopard 8 is also equipped with an intelligent three differential locks and a low-speed four-wheel drive, which provides a variety of driving modes such as Snow, Sand, Mud, Mountain, Rock, Wading, Race, Creep, Anti-skid Chain, Leopard Turnaround and so on, and a first Violence Mode, which is the first of its kind. There is also a first-of-its-kind Violence Mode, which will also be applied to the Leopard 5 via OTA on 31 December. Relying on binocular camera and LIDAR technology, the new car is able to sense road conditions in advance and instantly complete the adaptive adjustment of damping.
Editorial Comment:
Equation Leopard Leopard 8 from the first release of the concept car in August 2023, to the production version of the official listing has been a year's time, during this period of time, looking up to the U8 of the same cloud Chariot-P system, BYD's latest DiLink 150 car machine system have been on board, but also become BYD's first equipped with Huawei Smart Driving car, can be said to have not let down the consumer's wait. In the current market, if you are still faced with the choice of hardcore SUVs will be difficult to get in the intelligent aspects of satisfaction; and choose family SUVs can not possibly hope for non-load-bearing body and other hardcore off-road configuration, then the equation Panther Leopard 8 will undoubtedly become the optimal solution for you.