In 2026, there was a fuel suv in the chinese market, where the penetration rate of new energy was more than 40%. It is not a luxurious brand, but rather a limit-to-city policy, and it is purely fuel-powered and home-based that sustains the public's basic disk in china. This car is called a tour。
Public view of l pro's car-wide viewing official publicity figure
When you thought that the fuel sequence had stopped at 380 tsi for almost two decades, a router r, carrying 333 horsepower 2. 0t engines, a post-bridge twister vector differential and the audi-like brake system, was running undisguised road tests outside german factories。
With the addition of more than 300 horsepower flagship performances, the family is no longer just “a mass of 150,000 to 200,000”. It will complete its final puzzle in the second half of 2027: from the 130,000 class-opener to 300,000 class-imported flagships covering six major power levels and six product lines, it will be the only medium suv family in the country with a full “step to track” segment of 200,000。
Complete pyramid: 6-storey products, from $130,000 in inventory to 300,000 imported
The pathfinder l family is currently in the sales plus planning sequence, which can be divided into six layers by power and positioning from low to high. Each layer is a completely different image of the user, rather than "shell-to-shell" like many brands
The old white public view is parked in the brand room
Public view of l pro's brand-new smart room interior display
A new road test to see the tail of the vehicle
Of these six floors, 1. 4t clearing and 330tsi are from the old money view platform l-pro and are already on the exit route; 300tsi, 380tsi, epro are the main sales sequence of the current pro-platform; and pathwatch r is the “ceiling” of the entire family, which is expected to be officially delivered only later in 2027。
Easy to miss, and wrongly read r
In the course of the inventory, two cognitive deviations re-emerged on the route viewing product line, and it is worth noting alone that -
The first deviation: pathview l pro is not full of 2. 0t. In april 2026, the new 300tsi version was replaced with a 1. 5t evo ii engine, and many of the earlier model forms included only 2. 0t configurations, leaving out the introductory section. Its existence means that the pro platform is not “totally high power”, and there are still 1. 5 t of pro options for less than 180,000。
The second deviation: pathwatch r is not a r-line package. Ordinary consumers see the r markings on the front of the car, often thinking that this is a high-quality r-line sports package. In fact, the pathwatch r carries ea888 evo4, which is the source of the golf r, power parameters well above the normal 380 tsi (162kw vs 245kw), the back bridge with a twisting vector speed, brakes from odysport, and exhausts from the bilateral 4-barrel。
It's a model adapted by the mass r performance department, not a sticker。
In addition, the di. 4 renaming of the di. Widewatch pure electronic version, which is currently being piloted only overseas, was launched globally around october 2026 on the basis of the meb+ platform, but has not been officially recognized by the public。
For the time being, the country does not count it as part of the path viewing family — the population's pure electrical layout in the country follows a local sequence of id. Era, and the introduction of id. Is less likely, but rather confused。
In this picture, it's not going to be a step
Three hundred and thirty-three horsepower, behind bridge differentials, and an estimated import price of between 250,000 and 300,000 — it is clear that pathwatch r was not used to rob homes with cr-v and rav4。
Its real effect in this stratification is two: one is to seal the ceiling and turn the traveller family from “152 million medium suvs” to “130,000 to 300,000 fully covered”, and any budget-level user enters a mass exhibition hall with a corresponding path to choose; the other is to give the whole sequence a performance anchor, similar to what golf r means to the golf family — people who buy 1. 4t golfs don't go to the track, but knowing that rs is, they don't drive a regular truck。
Uncertainty also exists: the way to see r's domestic listing time, final pricing, introduction channels, all of which are currently not officially recognized by the public, and all of the information comes from overseas photographs and industry forecasts. There is also no clear timetable for domestic introduction of the di. Tiguan pure electronic version of the overseas programme。
The ultimate landing of these two puzzles will determine how much more can be pushed upwards by the family on the new energy side and on the performance side。
At this point in september 2026, however, the journey has been made from “one car” to “one family” — six power levels, six product lines, all covered from 130,000 to 300,000 — the last and most unexpected piece of the map, from a 333 horsepower track r。
