Hongqi, a brand under China's FAW Group, released its brand new flagship sedan H9 at the Great Hall of the People on January 8. The car added more luxury and comfort features, and looks a bit like a Rolls Royce.
On the front part, the H9 adopts a larger vertical waterfall grille shape, which creates a strong Rolls-Royce luxurious look.
Its iconic red flag is extended from above the hood to the middle of the air intake mid-net, and the front and body are equipped with horizontal and vertical body lines.
As an executive-class sedan, the car offers a two-tone body paint similar to the Maybach model, positioned at the high end. The interior of the car is heavily decorated with wood grain, leather and chrome materials, and the attributes of luxury cars are strengthened again.
In terms of power most concerned by consumers, the new car is equipped with a 3.0-liter V6 supercharged engine. The peak torque of the high-power version is 380 Nm. The transmission system is matched with the DCT400 dual-clutch gearbox, which accelerates the new car's 100 kilometers Less than 8 seconds.
The new car uses a rear-drive chassis with a longitudinal engine and is equipped with an air suspension system.
In the past two years, the development of the Hongqi brand has been very rapid. For the full year of 2018, Hongqi sold 33,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 624%. On December 26, 2019, Red Flag announced that its cumulative sales in 2019 had exceeded 100,000 units.
Xu Liuping, chairman of the FAW Group, said that Hongqi's sales target for 2020 is 200,000 units, the sales target for 2022 is 400,000 units, the sales target for 2025 is 600,000 units, and the sales target for 2030 is 800,000-1 million units.
This means that if Hongqi's sales exceed 1 million, Hongqi's position in the domestic market will surpass luxury brands such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi.
Red Flag also plans to achieve mass production of L3 autonomous vehicles in 2020 and mass production of L4 autonomous vehicles in 2021.
Earlier in December, Baidu announced that it would cooperate with FAW Hongqi to mass produce Robotaxi. At present, the cooperation projects of the two parties have released new products and solutions such as point-to-point city autonomous driving open capability, autonomous driving cloud, next-generation intelligent transportation solutions, and small-scale vehicle 2020.