Shanghai (Gasgoo)- On Feb.17, Rising Auto, the electric vehicle brand of SAIC Motor, saw the first tooling trial prototype of the F7 all-electric sedan roll off the production line at SAIC Motor’s Lin-gang automobile plant, indicating that the model has been amid product validation, the last stage before officially hitting the market.
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The automaker said the Rising Auto F7 will arrive at its showrooms in mid-March, and is scheduled to go on sale at the end of next month.
The latest move came 12 days after Rising Auto started presale of the R7. The new model is priced at 280,000 yuan-350,000 yuan ($40,740-$50,930) in presale.
As for the exterior, the Rising Auto F7 adopts the split-type headlight design with slender daytime running lights at the upper part. Its streamlined body with some sharp-edged lines, pop-out door handles, and pronounced fenders contribute to a drag coefficient of 0.206Cd.
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Positioned as a full-sized sedan, the F7 measures 5,000mm long, 1,953mm wide, and 1,494mm tall, with a wheelbase that spans 3,000mm.
At the rear, the light cluster with an R logo in the middle is quite eye-catching and the air vents are on both sides.
Interior of the F7 sticks close to that of the R7. It features the triple-screen design named RISING MAX, which is composed of a 15.05-inch central control screen, a 10.25-inch instrument panel, and a 12.3-inch co-pilot screen.
In terms of safety, the F7’s top-spec version carries Rising Auto’s high-level intelligent driving system RISING PILOT, which consists of 32 sensors including LiDAR, 4D imaging radar, an 8-megapixel camera, and enhanced long-distance point cloud radar.
