This Is The New Baojun RC-6 Sedan-Coupe-Crossover For China
Joey Wang
Posted on June 23, 2019 carnewschina.com
This Is The New Baojun RC-6 Sedan-Coupe-Crossover for China, looking stylish and cool. Baojun is a brand under Wuling, which in turn is a joint venture between SAIC, GM, and Wuling Motor.
The Baojun brand has been on a roll lately, showing great looking cars with impressive tech.
They continue this upward trend with this Baojun RC-6 Sedan-Coupe-Crossover, formerly know by its codename CN220C. It looks great, different, and even a bit strange. But that is a good thing.
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Not bad looking and interesting to see GM/Baojun move in this direction, further blurring the lines between sedans and crossovers (just as crossovers blurred the line between SUVs/MPVs/minivans/wagons previously).
It also might possibly hint at something coming down the line; and not just for GM, but all automakers.
Products like the Honda Crosstour and Acura ZDX attempted to go in this direction, but were arguably half-baked, not convincing enough, and debuted too early before the strong shift to SUVs/CUVs.
Since their demise, Ford has stated that it hopes to retain established names like Fusion and apply them to new and "reinvented" product segments down the line. When they announced their plan to cut all passenger car production (with the exception of the Mustang, and possibly some Lincoln sedans), they made a big point that they were going to possibly experiment in creating whole new segments.
This Baojun kind of hints at the same possibility within GM, and it might have implications for the NAFTA region.
One can only surmise that, as CUVs/SUVs become so ubiquitous and common, people will get 'bored' with them and look to new products that might combine some elements of other segments.
If that happens, perhaps GM could be a 'first' in this white space with a version of this product for North America?
It would be nice for GM to actually be a trend-setter rather than coming to a segment late (and having to play catch up, only to see consumer trends move onto the next 'big thing').
Buick should have a LWB C2XX version of something like this as a 2+2 Enclave-derived coupe. Using the LWB version would give the backseat passengers a crapton of room to fully recline with footrests and everything. GM needs to think outside the box and go into segments none of the other Big 3 automakers play in.
So that one car is a sedan and a coupe and a crossover? All in one? How does that happen? Someone in Chyyynnnaaaa! says it's so, so it's so? Just wondering, because it sure looks like a sedan to me.
What is the point of a sedan on stilts? You get the compromised economy and handling without the benefit of space and utility. The only value add is modestly better visibility and ground clearance. And you end up with one ugly vehicle to boot.
It's ride height is what the Buick Tourx should've been.
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