The Chinese state-owned company Changan has presented a completely new coupé SUV. Uni-K is the name of the production version of a recently shown concept car. The auro certainly looks a bit like a well-known coupé-SUV from Germany from the rear.
Changan Automobile added its first Uni-labeled model to its delivery range early this year: the Uni-T. That 4.52 meter long crossover will now be joined by the larger Uni-K. That is the production version of the Vision V, presented at the end of September.
With a length of 4.87 meters, this brand new Uni-K is about 5 centimeters shorter than the Porsche Cayenne. We don’t just pick up that SUV, especially the rear of the Changan Uni-K, with its lights and sloping roofline, has something of the Porsche Cayenne Coupé. The 1.95 meter wide and 1.7 meter high SUV has a wheelbase of 2.98 meters. At the front we see flat LED viewers, strikingly designed LED daytime running lights in the bumper and a grille made up of busy-looking segments. The SUV, shod on 21-inch light alloy, has a strikingly flat window. The all-round view therefore promises not to be optimal from behind the wheel. Striking design elements include the recessed door handles and the striking brake lights in the spoiler at the top of the rear window.
Porsche Cayenne Coupé
The drive is via a blown gasoline-fired 2.0-liter from the Blue Whale engine family, coupled to an eight-speed automatic transmission. The Changan Uni-K is currently only presented with four-wheel drive, although it is quite possible that a front-wheel drive version will also be available later. Whether the Uni-K will come to Europe just like the rest of the Uni products from Changan? That is still not certain. After all, in 2017, the Chinese car manufacturer indicated that it also wanted to sell its models in Europe in the long term. We wait.