Price has always been a very important factor in the process of purchasing a car; using the most appropriate price to buy the desired car is everyone’s need. Recently, the Chinese brand car has been developing rapidly in recent years, the launch of the car product is excellent, and configuration is also relatively rich, and the price is relatively suitable for the level of consumers, the overall cost-effectiveness is also high.
Today, we recommend an SUV, Geely Coolray, that combines performance and practicality and analyse it from all aspects to see if it’s worth buying.
Exterior Appearance
The exterior of Geely Coolray is designed to be more flamboyant and individualistic, with a large number of diamond-shaped pieces of trim covering the inside of the front grille and an overall smoked treatment, incorporating cyberpunk and mecha elements for a strong sense of visual impact. The headlight group has a sharp shape, and the daytime running lights are composed of three segments with a rhythmic effect when unlocked. The lower two side deflector slots are supplemented with “wind blade” trim, and the modelling is more flamboyant. In addition, the details are trimmed with a red stripe, which makes it look more individual.
The lines on the side of the body are full, and the 18-inch sports wheels and red brake callipers make the new car’s sporty attributes more prominent. At the rear of the car body, the dynamic wind speed sensation rear wing and racing level bilateral four exhaust fit the fashion aesthetics of young people.
Trunk area
The Geely Coolray’s boot has a regular capacity of 820L, which is perfectly adequate for family trips.
Interior
Geely Coolray chose a grey-orange colour clash design, with bright angular lines on the seats and orange S embroidery below the headrests. The new car is equipped with a 7-inch full LCD instrument + 12.3-inch high-definition touch screen, which can easily achieve dual-screen linkage to meet the vehicle data view, travel navigation, audio and video entertainment and other car needs.
The centre screen is equipped with the Geely Galaxy OS system with a wealth of built-in features. The screen feedback sensitivity is average, but the underlying logic is relatively simple and easy to use.
Driving safety aspects
Geely Coolray is equipped with a “cage safety body”, 66% high-strength steel, 15.2% hot-formed steel, 1500Mpa tensile strength, and 360° HD panoramic image, which can monitor the steering blind spot in real-time, and provides convenience in the scene of turning, parking and so on.
Power
The top-of-the-line version of the Geely Coolray is powered by a 1.5T high-power engine with a maximum power of 133kW (181hp) and peak torque of 290N-m.
The numbers don’t really matter, what matters is that the overall mass of this Coolray is 1.3 tonnes, and with this output coupled with maximum torque, it’s a piece of cake to propel such a small SUV.
Geely Coolray this new 1.5T engine is matched with a wet 7-speed dual-clutch transmission, fast shifting and high transmission efficiency are all its advantages, and the whole system matching tuning is done well. You can see the gears the transmission is in on the full LCD dashboard to better judge the dynamics of the vehicle. When you switch to manual mode, the playability is still high and the gear changes are clean, which is what the Geely Coolray should be.
The manufacturer has also set up an ejection start function for the Coolray, which can be activated with a simple operation; the suspension tuning of the Geely Coolray is overall sporty, and the suspension is quite supportive to the bodywork, with no unsettling feeling due to the SUV’s high ground clearance.
The rear end of the Geely Coolray is more active when cornering, and the feeling is that the rear suspension is tuned to be stiffer. Overall, the new Coolray is more obviously sporty in its power tuning and experience, and the power matching and chassis setup have been optimised for maximum sportiness.
Summary
The above is our comprehensive analysis of the new Geely Coolray, which can be considered as a car with a distinctive personality in the small SUV market that tends to be homogenised. The Geely Coolray is also quite popular in markets like Saudi Arabia and the Philippines, which shows that the car is going global. With a new powerplant, it’s even better in terms of dynamic driving experience, and the price tag starting at $10,111 is quite generous, which is why the Geely Coolray is selling well.
