Borgward crossover and sedan. Reborn Borgward brand will sell crossovers in Russia
The new coupe shaped crossover Borgward BX6 (Borgward BX6) entered the Chinese market after more than two years after the debut show of the BORGWARD BX6 TS prototype in March 2016. In our review, the Borgward BX6 crossover 2018-2019 - photos and videos, the price and configuration of the Voltformar brother of the Parketnik with the original coupe with a leafbeck-shaped body. The third model (crossovers Borgward BX5 and) Borgward Borgward Bargward Bargward BX6 Parcotnik are already sold in the Borgward BX6 Parcourt, with a powerful 224-strong engine 2.0 Turbo on price 182800-199800 yuan (about 1161-1267 thousand rubles).
Borgward's innovations called genuine interest among Chinese motorists, but the sale of Borgward BX5 and Borgward BX7 crossovers in Middle Kingdom is difficult to call successful. At the end of 2016, only just over 30,000 copies sold, but the situation in 2017 became better, and the company managed to implement 44380 cars. The speaker is clearly positive, and the output of the third model - Borgward BX6 will allow the company to significantly increase the amount of crossovers implemented.
I would like to emphasize that the stylish novelty Borgward BX6 is positioned by the manufacturer as a car class GT and is equipped with the highest category. In stock The most powerful motor from the company's reserves is 224-strong turbo Four 2.0 T-GDI, a 6-speed robotic gearbox from BorgWarner, a four-wheel drive with a coupling that provides connecting rear wheels, and a very generous equipment of the car with a leather interior trim, electrical adjustment driver's chair, multimedia system with an 8-inch screen, two-zone climate control, and this is already in the basic configuration.
At the same time, the Borgward Chefic Designer Swedish designer Anders Warming, who has previously operating in companies and, comparing his creation to the crossover Borgward BX6 crossover with an expensive coupe with a premium crossover, and hints that a novelty Borgward looks outwardly no worse crossovers of famous companies.
It is difficult to disagree with the opinion of the Swedish designer, because really Borgward BX6 looks very not bad. When looking at the body of a new Chinese crossover, a hand of the master of the European Designer School is immediately visible. The novelty demonstrates modern, original and stylish appearance. At the same time, the brightest details are a chic roof dome, lush wheeled arches, decorated with athletic emptying, compact and neat headlamp headlights, and wound oven lights with LED filling.
- External dimensions Borgward BX6 2018-2019 body sizes are 4601 mm in length, 1877 mm wide, 1656 mm in height, with a 2685 mm wheelbase and 184 mm of road lumen.
- By default, the crossover is equipped with large 19-inch alloy wheels with Rubber Goodyear EfficientGrip 225/55 R19 for the front and rear axle.
- BORGWARD BX6 with identical sizes of the wheelbase in 2685 mm and body widths in 1877 mm with the Borgward BX5 ratio model noticeably larger than the ratio of a rat permanent brother 111 mm and below 19 mm.
A five-seater salon BX6's new merchant crossover got from the BX5 model, but ... more quality materials are available for finishing the interior, and even the basic configuration is impressive.
In the arsenal of a pair of frontal and side airbags for the driver and front passenger, fastening ISOFIX for children's armchairs, ABS with EBD and BAS, TCS and ESP, rear parking sensors, rear view camera, electric parking brake, leakage system with a hill, hatch With an electric drive, a baggage compartment door, an incinless access system with a start / stop-stop button, multi-power, instrument panel with an on-board computer screen, electric drive driver, armrests in the first and second row, multimedia system with 8-inch color touch sensory Screen and audio system with 6-speakers, double-zone climate control, electrical windows on all doors, rear-view mirrors with electric drive and heated, leather interior decoration.
In the maximum configuration, the side safety curtains are additionally present in the first and second rows, tire pressure sensors, front parking sensors, passenger armchair adjustment electric drive, heated front seats, audio system with 9 speakers, navigator, adaptive headlights, rear-type mirrors Automatic folding, rain and light sensors.
It remains only to add that stylish and chic externally roof dome, turning on the trunk door with a highly diluted glass, is sadly reflected on the convenience of placing passengers on the rear seats and the useful volume of the luggage compartment. Passengers literally support the ceiling with top, and the trunk is able to take the funny 380 liters of luggage in the hiking state. If desired, the volume of the luggage compartment can be increased by folding a separate 40/60 reverse back.
Specifications Borgward BX6 2018-2019
At the heart of the new merchant crossover Borgward BX6 contemporary platform with a fully independent suspension (Front of McPherson's rack, rear of a multiple). The system of the connected full drive with a coupling that provides thrust transmission with rear wheels is used.
Under the hood of the novelty, non-alternative four cylinder gasoline turbo Motor 2.0 T-GDI (224 HC 300 nm), working paired with a 6-speed robotic BorgWarner gearbox. According to the manufacturer, the turbocked crossover engine with a bodied body weight in 1655-1670 kg is content with an average of 7.1 liters of fuel per 100 km of mileage.
Borgward BX6 2018-2019 Video Test
Completely incomprehensible, from where the German autofind of Karl Friedrich-Wilhelm Borgward dug up for his new model of the middle class is a name. Mother's Mother had Sophia, the spouse - Elizabeth, daughter - Monica, among the elder and younger sisters, too, not a single Isabella ...
Any romantic childhood friend? Hardly: Karl-Friedrich-Wilhelm was born in 1890, the places for romance during the years of his childhood was not enough in Germany. Of course, it is impossible to exclude that the manufacturer who received all three of his name in honor of the German emperors, starting with Karl the Great, simply called his novelty in honor of any historical personnel. Let's say, Isabella Castilskaya, whose alliance with Philip Aragonsky marked the beginning of the modern Spanish state. But no reliable data on this paper does not exist.
It is exactly exactly the fact that he, Karl-Friedrich-Wilhelm Borgward, gave this name to the car, during the development worn a completely different service designation - Erlkoenig. And one more documented fact: the very first instance of the elegant coupe received the Elizabeth Borgward as a gift, and two years before this model went to the series. Loving spouse presented to her an exclusive car in 1955, to the birthday and on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of a joint family life. The car was painted by catchy orange-red ("tomato") color and had an automatic transmission; Frau Borgward went to her until the end of his life, - the car and now remains the property of the Borgward family, only the color changed to a more modest dark blue.
The production of machines under the ISabella brand began in 1954, "this model changed the car Hansa 1500/1800 on the conveyor, which Borgward was rightly proud of as the first truly post-war Western German model. All other country's automotive leaders still chased their pre-war samples to the market, and in Bremen, the serial release of a modern smooth-brawl machine with a "pontoon" (i.e., three-volume) Body! Even Mercedes-Benz slept with his "Pontoon" only by 1953, - the Bremenskaya Hansa by the time of this model already three with more than a year as it was in production and had seven modifications, including three diesel. There were models with two doors and with four, open and cargo-passenger. As it turned out, such a variety of the German buyer of the first half of the fifties was like anything, - from the release of the four-door modification during the transition to the type of Isabella, refused, as from diesel traction, leaving only a gasoline four-cylinder motor for 1493 cubic meters. See working volume.
The convertible, however, had to be left, - this type of body continued to use in the Germans with a wide demand, no matter what - and the cargo-passenger modification too; Another thing is that this version went on sale only since May 1955, while the first two-door sedan solemnly descended from the main conveyor on June 10, 1954. (An open model was released by the Cologne Body Firm Karl Deutsch, cutting a metal top from the standard sedan. Since September 1955, the delivery of Borgward Isabella cars in the TS version (Touring Sport) began, - with a 75-strong engine instead of the standard 60-strong, and in 1957 The line of models was replenished with a two-door coupe made according to the personal car of the owner's wife.
The chassis of the novelty did not differ from the initial options, the same independent suspension in front and rear, the same four-stage transmission, the same steering mechanism based on the "Worm and Roller" pair, the same drum brakes with hydraulics; Even the wheelbase remained the same, 2600 mm. However, due to a shortened salon, the car belonged to the class "2 + 2", and the full-size rear sofa was not supposed to her, the length of the trunk has sharply increased, as a result of which the body proportions have changed dramatically, and the intensive plastic of the sides has changed even more "stretched out" the car Horizontal, dismembering its volume below the glazed "attic" with swallowed and courageous strokes of light lines. The new silhouette was quite successfully complemented by the vertex circuit, the car turned out to be stylish and elegant, while maintaining the "family similarity" with the rest of Isabellas due to the same frontal processing.
In the second half of the fifties, German car styling was at all on the rise, at that time they were bond and BMW 503, and BMW 507, and Mercedes 300 SL, and Mercedes 190 SL, and Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia; Even the poor Socialist Wartburg with its three cylinders - and he looked tightened and silently even in the serial four-door version, not to mention experimental or small dual hours ... And anyway in 1957 was not in East Germany, nor in the western car spectacular and more beautiful than Borgward Isabella Coupe. Against this car, not only all other Isabelles were lost, but also Ford Taunus, and Opel Olympia Rekord with their new-fashioned "American" styling, not to mention any smallness like DKW or NSU. Moreover, for the whole of this beauty, less than 11 thousand stamps were asked, while the "one hundred and ninetie" Mercedes (W 121) accounted for at least sixteen and a half, and the "three hundredth" with lifting doors (W 1981) at all cost under thirty. By the way, in our days, the well-renovated Isabella Coupe can cost about 18 thousand, - but no more brands, and the euro: "Feel the difference" ...
The only "facelift" machine, purely cosmetic, fell on August 1958: all Borgward Isabella cars changed the front cladding, slightly reducing the branded "Rhombik", - now it was entered into the cutout of the falseradiator, and not imposed on top of him. From May 1960, on all models of this typest channel, a four-band "automatic" began to offer instead of a standard transmission, "this box was proudly called Hansamatic, but was not actually my own development of the company, but was purchased to import - from the English company HOBBS. It was worth this pleasure quite expensive, 980 stamps over the total cost of the car, and therefore did not use special demand. Another option turned out to be more popular - automatic grip Saxomat: centrifugal coupling and a vacuum chamber, acting together, "squeezed" the clutch as soon as the driver was taken for the transmission lever, and included it back with the first pressure on the accelerator pedal.
It was generally quite common in those days the device - they had European cars of various brands: both BMW, and Opel, and NSU, and Glas, and the Volkswageni beetle, and even Saab. Cologne Cydesniks from Karl Daja tried from the compartment of Isabella to make a convertible, a double, - the same way of the "roof amputation", "however, the audience was met with the Cool: and the view of the car in the open version was not ahti, and cost It is already 15,600 brands, whereas their usual (that is, from the sedan made) a car with a folding riding, which accommodate five, was sold in just 12535 brands at the most expensive version of TS. So Karl Deutsch managed to build and sell only a century of such a "coupe-cabriolet", plus another such car built to order Georg Aunerrieth in Darmstadt. Now, such cars come across often, but all this is completely recently: a naked eye can be seen.
The release of ISABELLA machines continued until complete cessation by Borgward manufacturing activities as a result of unfriendly absorption. It is this car that the last 1961 came out from the factory conveyor in the fall, topped with a tight-bitter poster: "Farewell, Isabella, you were too good for this world ..." However, that farewell instance still had a body sedan, not a coupe.
Borgward on the Shanghai Auto Show announced that it was going to start selling its cars in Russia. This is primarily about, which is produced at the plant in the suburbs of Beijing and is sold in China since July last year. However, this spring Borgward presented and more compact (on the title photo), which is about to enter the Chinese market - and which in the future should also get to Russia.
According to the author, the firm has already begun the process of car certification in our country, but General Director Ulrich Volker during an interview in Shanghai confirmed only that the Russian market is being studied and the formation of a promotion strategy. According to the Volcker, Borgward refers itself to the segment of the "affordable premium", and the Competitors at the global level see the Volkswagen first. True, the head of the company refused to outline the price segment. In Russia, Borgward first plans to sell only import cars, but if the sales volume will grow confidently, the company will start working on localization.
Borgward BXI7 with electric motor
Recall that Borgward is a German brand, which was founded in 1919, but in 1961 the firm went broke and was revived only in May 2015. The second birth project is the Chinese company Foton, which is included in the BAIC concern and is engaged in the release of commercial vehicles, but in 2010 it began to develop passenger cars, inviting managers, engineers and designers from Mercedes, BMW and Porsche.
However, only in 2013 Foton concluded an agreement on buying a brand with Christian Borgward, who owned the rights to Borgward and was looking for the opportunity to revive the family brand for almost ten years. Another two years later, the company was registered in Stuttgart as a German enterprise and arranged his debut on.
Since 2016, the main designer was the former stylist MINI Anders Warming, however, the BX7 and BX5 models, of course, were completed before his arrival, with the participation of Einar Hereyide, the former SAAB designer and the author of the second-generation Saab 900 cars and Saab 9-5. In the development of the Borgward platform, collaborated with global contractors: a two-liter turbocharger helped create a FEV company, predatory "robot" and four-wheel drive brand BorgWarner, and an electromechanical variator for hybrid versions - AISIN.
The models hierarchy is simple: BX7 acts an analogue of Audi Q5, almost identical to him in size and equipped with a turbo engine 2.0 (221 hp). Since July last year, 30 thousand such cars managed to sell in China - not the most outstanding result. But Borgward places hopes for a more compact BX5 with turbo engine 1.8 (190 hp) is a classmate of such golf crossovers, like Volkswagen Tiguan or Hyundai Tucson. In addition, the BX5 basis also created a merchant crossover (he has not yet reached the conveyor), and in the development there are two more platforms - for a shortened crossover and for an electric vehicle, which will be presented in a year.
The modest result in the domestic market stimulates Borgward to activity on the export front: according to Ulrich Volker, at the moment the car certification process has been launched in almost 30 countries. Russia in the list of priorities is not in the first place: the Volker explained that the company is now concentrated on the launch of sales in the countries of the Middle East and the contract with the importer in Qatar has already been signed. The next priority market is South America, and in 2018 Borgward will begin the construction of the plant in Germany. Thus, the appearance in Russia should be expected no earlier than the next year.
Actually, the Russian branch of the latter and was engaged in certification of the Borgward BX7 crossover, which is positioned by the company as a ... an affordable alternative to premium Audi Q5. Machines are similar in size, and the stylistics intersects in many respects.
In the rosstandard appeared in the database, approval of the vehicle type (FTS) states that the car will be supplied to us in front-wheel drive and all-wheel drive versions in two body configurations: five and seven-seed.
The engine is only one, it is a 2-liter 4-cylinder gasoline power unit in two options for forsing: 201 and 224 hp The certification of the first power unit looks like a slightly illogical: Machines with engines just from 200 hp Russia is subject to higher transport tax. Both options are adapted to the AI-92 fuel. Transmission is a non-alternative 6-speed AISIN machine.
BORGWARD BX7 is 4715 mm, the wheelbase is 2760 mm, so only children can fit on the third row of seats.
In Borgward, quite rich equipment is considered the main visa at an affordable price. However, it cannot be said that the car that received the FTS can boast an extended complete set. It has power windows, electric mirrors, two front airbags, air conditioning, alarm, hatch, tire pressure monitoring system and emergency service system of ERA-GLONASS. Wheel size size: 17 and 18 inches depending on the version.
In the underground in the basic configuration, there are also side airbags, a leather interior, a multimedia system with an 8-inch screen and rear parking sensors. The top-end versions are equipped with 3-zone climate control, safety curtains, the electric drive of the luggage compartment, the circular video closure system and many others.
In September last year, the St. Petersburg United Automobile Group (UAK) announced that it was she who would sell Borgward cars in Russia. Plans for this year - 200-250 cars. Moreover, in the Russian company, they even promised to bring an electric vehicle in the future, which will be made based on the Borgward Isabella concept.
- On the European market, the main competitor of the Borgward Machines created by Geely Sanbrend Lynk & Co.
- Borgward may also appear the third crossover - merchant BX6 TS, as a concept in 2016.
