Popular car-shopping website Edmunds put a Chinese vehicle through a series of rigorous tests for the first time, and Editor-in-Chief Alistair Weaver came away with a notable impression: U.S. automakers have good reason for concern.
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美国汽车评估机构Edmunds弄一个中国Geely's Galaxy M9混动full size SUV去美国测试：
1. 3排座混动SUV， 电池可以跑190公里，电池加油1300公里
2. 30英寸屏幕，内置冰箱，后排屏幕，按摩椅
3. Many of the M9's features are "ahead of the vehicles that we're driving in the U.S.," Weaver said after driving the vehicle around Edmunds' Los Angeles-based test track. "The technology is terrific."
4. 关键是中国买2.5万美元，即使在美国卖5万美元，也非常有竞争力。It found that the three-row Galaxy M9 SUV rivals vehicles twice its price, such as the fully loaded Hyundai Palisade
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- In track and on-road testing, this three-row SUV exceeded almost all of our expectations. Chinese cars are ready for prime time in America.
even at $50,000 or $60,000, the M9 would hold its own against a fully loaded
Hyundai Palisade or
Kia Telluride.
On our acceleration straight, the M9 hits 60 mph in 4.2 seconds; Geely estimates a 0-to-62-mph time of 4.5. The M9 completes the quarter mile in 12.9 seconds at 98.6 mph. That puts it in great company with the BMW X5 plug-in (4.6 seconds to 60 mph; 12.8 seconds in the quarter mile at 107.4 mph). A three-row luxury SUV like the
Lexus TX 550h plug-in is left in the dust by comparison, needing 5.6 seconds to hit 60 mph and 14 seconds in the quarter mile.
One of the M9's best showings is in our 60-to-0-mph emergency braking test. It takes just 110 feet to come to a stop — that matches a BMW X5 M, a bona fide performance SUV. Another notable number for the M9 comes in our sound test, which measures how quiet (or not) a car is at idle and on the move. The M9 registers 32.5 decibels at idle, a figure that even whomps the
Rolls-Royce Spectre. Clearly, Geely isn't messing around when it comes to luxury.
