Today BYD released official interior pictures of its Sea Lion 07, an SUV competitor to the Tesla Model Y. With an MIIT listing months ago the car must be now ready to begin sales and an announcement may well be made at this week’s Beijing Auto Show.
In many ways the Sea Lion 07 is little more than a redesign of the Song L but with the range now divided into the Ocean and Dynasty series and sold separately that’s the way it goes. The Sea Lion 07 measures in slightly smaller than the Song L at 4830, 1925, and 1620 mm (l/w/h), and rides on a wheelbase of 2930 mm.
Interior pictures show the Sea Lion 07 to be surprisingly luxurious with the overall design language is similar to the Qin L. Although the instrument screen is embedded in the flowing dashboard the Sea Lion 07 retains BYD’s signature floating rotatable screen mounted on the center of the dash. There’s a four-spoke steering wheel which contains quite a lot of buttons. On the center console is a crystal gear lever which is also surrounded by more buttons.
Not only does the BYD Sea Lion 07 have leather perforated seats but leather appears to be also used to wrap the door panels, steering wheel and other touch points. The seats gain heating, ventilation and massage functions. There is also a Dynaudio sound system.
Buyers will have a choice between rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive variants. Lower spec cars use a 170 kW peak power motor which gives the car a top speed of 210 km/h. A more powerful motor drives higher spec versions giving a top speed of 225 km/h thanks to the motor’s 230 kW peak power. Likely only one model in the range will feature 4WD and this version adds a 160 kW motor to the front axle to complement the 230 kW motor, top speed remains at 225 km/h but acceleration is likely to be below 4 seconds for this version.
While there is still no news on the battery capacities the Sea Lion 07 will of course use BYD’s blade battery. It will also benefit from CTB integration of the batteries. The car comes with front double wishbone suspension and rear five-link suspension along with getting the DiSus-C intelligent damping control system. Furthermore the Sea Lion 07 should also come with BYD’s ‘Eye of the Gods’ intelligent driving system.
Prices are expected to range from 200,000 to 260,000 yuan.
Source: Fast Technology
