About me mentioning that I bought an Avita 11.

I’ve been looking at cars since last year. I was originally considering waiting for the M5EV to come out, but I was always torn about not having Huawei’s smart driving. Until I stumbled upon YYP’s video, even though I rarely watch car reviews, I was immediately touched by YYP’s failed expression management. With Huawei Inside and Avita’s independent design philosophy, indeed, for core users, Avita has no competitors.

That’s how I didn’t test drive any other cars, nor did I see the actual car. After hesitating for a day, I ordered the long-range version on August 9th. After a long wait, I finally got the Avita I had been yearning for before March.

Craftsmanship

Before picking up the car, I almost browsed through all the information about the car on the Internet and in the APP, and many car owners shared some problems they encountered. Here, I would like to thank Blackfish for his efforts in reducing my expectations for the quality of the car. As a result, when I picked up the car, I couldn’t find any problems at all, even after touching it for a few days, I am still very satisfied with the hardware quality of this car. Comfortable and quiet, every time I stay in the car, I feel unstoppable joy in my heart. Compared with the offline test drive car, it is completely different. I think that Avita’s launch of the engineering car as an exhibition car did indeed lower tourists’ impression of the brand. With the display of the new car, potential users can more clearly feel the quality of the car.

Driving experience

The driving feeling is similar to the last test drive, the power is not said to be surging, but the feeling of continuity. Driving on a flat road, it is as smooth as butter falling into a hot flat-bottomed pan, elegant, and floating like driving a future vehicle with the unique sound of electric cars. When test-driving, I especially liked the feeling of the Avita quickly passing over the speed bump. Bang bang twice, it just passed cleanly and neatly. However, when driving at low speed, the left and right swing of the body due to the bumps on the road is still obvious. Even when driving in the parking lot, the body still has slight left and right swings. In terms of brakes, it feels similar to the test drive. The front section is even better. The coordination of the throttle at low speeds can achieve complete control and is very comfortable. The middle section is still slightly weaker, maybe because the car is too heavy. Once I encountered a sudden stop by the car in front of me, I slowly stepped on the brakes with my intuition, but the result was that the car started to have inertia and decelerate insufficiently. Finally, I deeply stepped on the brake, triggering ABS to stop the car. For me, an old driver, everything is still within the range of control, but for passengers, it is still scary. The braking of the Avita’s back section is very powerful. In the critical situation described earlier, under heavy braking, it was terminated in about a second. I didn’t even have time to feel the pedal feedback brought by ABS. The car stopped, as always, clean and neat, giving people full confidence.

Test Drive Review of the Avita

Coming from a Volkswagen Golf, I haven’t driven many cars in this price range, but based on my limited experience with other BBA models, I can confidently say that the Avita is both the best in terms of handling and daily driving comfort, and much better overall (although this view may be biased, so it’s better to test drive it yourself).

Smart Driving

As the core selling point of the Avita, its smart driving features are definitely among the top tier, and its parking assistance is simply exceptional. It doesn’t require any ground lines, just open space and a reference vehicle to be able to park easily, which is truly amazing. Since purchasing the Avita, I have let it park and exit itself in 99% of cases and it is really convenient. During use, there were a few parking spots that were not recognized or routes that were not planned successfully, but otherwise, it was fast and flawless, which is how I would rate the parking assistance system.

Autonomous driving experience

Since I have not been on the highway since receiving the car, my experience with autonomous driving has been mostly on city expressways. Maybe because I am a daring person, I let the car drive itself on the first day I received it. Since I received version 1.0.6, I felt the Avita was not so steady on the road as shown in test drive videos, and it would accelerate to a point close to the leading car and then decelerate quickly in congested areas, which is not ideal for passengers. During use, I encountered a few occasions where some impolite drivers cut in at high speed. Considering the experience of the passengers in the back seat, I took over the control of the car. When I was forced to grab the steering wheel from the system, I was nervous, but every time it was a close call. With passengers, I did not have the opportunity to explore the boundaries of the system, but I hope to do that later in the future.

In addition, Huawei’s map data and the Gaode maps on the car’s infotainment system urgently needs to be updated and improved, as the outdated data makes daily navigation difficult, and can even lead to danger when NCA is activated. Huawei maps may become a bottleneck in city NCA, and even a weakness in future competition, so I hope the team can pay more attention to this.

In the next few years, human-vehicle co-piloting will surely become a new normal in high-end car models. Driver assistance systems can manage daily safe and boring driving processes, while humans can handle more complex edge cases, which can greatly reduce driving fatigue, improve comfort, and make driving easier and safer. With the Avita, you won’t be outdated in the next few years, since it’s ahead of its class.

Automotive Infotainment

After discussing the advantages of cars for so long, we finally come to the eagerly anticipated criticism section. If the Avita hardware can score over 90 points, then the Avita infotainment system can only score around 70 points. First of all, I have to say that the functionality and logical use of the infotainment system is better than I expected. The logic is relatively clear, and the core functions are also easy to grasp. Compared to the previous generation of products, the infotainment system is qualified. However, when compared to a vehicle such as the Avita, which is equipped with full-body technology, the current infotainment system is, in fact, “unfinished,” with missing detailed functions and unstable systems. It can only be said to be in the stage of infancy and requires the Avita team to make continuous efforts to improve. Fortunately, as long as the team values software and is persistent in updating and maintaining it, there will be a mature day in the future. I have confidence in this.

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This article is a translation by ChatGPT of a Chinese report from 42HOW. If you have any questions about it, please email bd@42how.com.