Recently, the annual flagship model of Beijing Off-Road's all-new luxury off-road brand Tantalum—the Tantalum 700 "Smart Fun Fish Seeking" full-scenario media test drive event officially kicked off in Beijing, with many media gathering on site. On diverse road conditions including urban expressways, winding mountain roads, and unpaved off-road crossings, they experienced for the first time in full this all-around model that had already sparked industry-wide attention during its presale phase.
As the flagship of the "Jinghua Combination," which deeply integrates Beijing Off-Road's thirty years of military off-road technology accumulation with Huawei Qiankun intelligent driving technology, the Tantalum 700 uses four core capabilities—"suitable for business and family, capable in the city and the wild, super intelligent driving, and super safety"—to break the long-standing industry pain point of traditional hardcore off-road vehicles being "wild but uncomfortable" and urban intelligent SUVs being "comfortable but unable to go wild," redefining a new value standard for all-around luxury off-road vehicles in the 400,000-yuan class.
Suitable for Business and Family: Turning Family Travel from "Making Do" into "Looking Forward To"
The core demand of many family users when buying a large SUV has never been simply stacking size parameters, but buying the peace of mind that "the whole family travels comfortably together"—children will not cry and ask "how much longer" after just a few kilometers, elderly passengers will not suffer backaches and fatigue on long rides, a spouse will not treat long-distance travel as torture, and after driving all day, the driver can still have the energy to accompany family members after getting out of the car. The Tantalum 700's "family-capable" philosophy is not simply piling up common market features like "refrigerator, TV, large sofa," but rather considering in advance every unspoken detailed need of the whole family, creating a luxury off-road first-class cabin experience far beyond its class.
The Tantalum 700 features the industry's first seven-screen linked interaction system: a 10.25-inch full LCD instrument cluster, dual 15.6-inch central control and front passenger linked screens, HUD head-up display, a 21.4-inch rear high-definition ceiling-mounted screen, and streaming media rearview mirror, with multi-screen information interoperability. Supported by the computing power of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295 flagship cockpit chip, and paired with four-zone independent voice control and global wake-free continuous dialogue, every passenger in the car can have an independent content experience: the driver focuses on the road and traffic conditions, the front passenger can handle work and to-dos, and children in the rear can watch an entire animated film on the 21.4-inch ceiling-mounted screen, so there is no longer a situation where everyone crowds around the same screen and compromises with one another.
On top of the comfort features commonly found in luxury SUVs of the same class, the Tantalum 700 also offers multiple industry-exclusive "heartwarming black technologies": the industry's first graphene "life light wave" physiotherapy seat, using the same physical recovery technology as Winter Olympics professional athletes, with 5-25 micron far-infrared light waves heating up quickly in 10 seconds. The thermal energy can penetrate 5 millimeters beneath the skin, fundamentally alleviating waist and back muscle soreness accumulated from long-term office work and driving. The moment the door closes, the fatigue of a whole day's journey can slowly be unloaded. The class-exclusive medical-grade onboard oxygen generation system has a super-large output of 7 liters per minute and can adjust the cabin environment to a 22% oxygen-rich state in 30 minutes. Its diffusion + nasal inhalation dual modes can automatically adjust concentration according to altitude. Whether for high-altitude crossings or long commutes when feeling sleepy, it can refresh the mind more safely and quickly than strong coffee.
More importantly, the Tantalum 700 is also equipped with the Tiantong-1 satellite communication system built jointly with China's national satellite communications team. The 36,000-kilometer high-orbit communication satellite covers all of China and surrounding areas. From Mohe to Zengmu Ansha, from the Pamir Plateau to the western Pacific east of Guam, even if you drive into a no-man's land with completely no ground signal, you can still stay in contact with your family at any time, thoroughly solving the core anxiety of "reporting safety" during off-road crossings. In addition, the Infinity 12-speaker + 2 headrest audio system, exclusively tuned by acoustic experts from the National Centre for the Performing Arts, together with ANC active noise cancellation and the rear-row privacy sound shield function exclusive to million-yuan luxury cars, brings in-car noise down to as low as 35.7 decibels when parked, quieter than a library environment. It can transform into an immersive concert hall or switch with one touch into a private business negotiation cabin. The entire vehicle uses a mother-and-baby-grade 0-formaldehyde 0-benzene cabin built with self-developed adsorption and degradation materials jointly developed by BAIC and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Benzene release is infinitely close to zero. Combined with full-domain negative ion air purification technology, children and elderly people can breathe fresh air like a forest after rain even the first time they sit in the new car. The 6.6L smart temperature-controlled refrigerator covers a wide temperature range from -6°C to 50°C, freezing cold drinks in summer and warming milk in winter. On long trips, storing medicines and children's complementary foods also keeps them fresh at all times, bringing meticulous daily care into every detail.
Capable in the City and the Wild: A Full-Capability Ladder-Frame Chassis Balances Off-Road and Commuting
In the past, hardcore off-road models long suffered from a "polarized" market pain point: models focused on off-road performance drove on city roads like bulky trucks, with large steering dead zones, delayed throttle response, and high fuel consumption for daily commuting, leaving drivers exhausted after long trips; intelligent SUVs focused on urban comfort lacked the chassis strength of hardcore off-road vehicles, and once driven onto unpaved roads, they easily got stuck and simply could not support deep crossings. The Tantalum 700, however, fully integrates a professional-grade body-on-frame ladder chassis with the comfort of an urban luxury cabin, completely shedding the label of traditional hardcore off-road vehicles being "unbalanced," achieving agile and composed urban commuting and giving full confidence for outdoor crossings.
Relying on Beijing Off-Road's thirty years of military-grade off-road technology accumulation, the Tantalum 700's professional chassis has undergone real-world testing over tens of thousands of kilometers of complex road conditions across the country. The highly rigid ladder structure can withstand high-intensity off-road impacts. Paired with a professional-grade four-wheel-drive system, multiple differential locks, and multi-level adjustable off-road modes, it can easily and calmly pass everything from cross-axle obstacles and shell craters to desert gobi and icy and snowy roads. At the same time, the chassis team made extensive targeted tuning for urban use scenarios, greatly filtering out the excess vibration and bouncing of traditional hardcore off-road chassis. When following traffic in city congestion, it is smooth and responsive; at highway speeds, the body is as stable as a rock. Even a female driver in the family can easily handle this large-size model, and the clumsy feeling of "driving an off-roader like sailing a boat" no longer appears.
During the test drive, the media convoy set off from urban Beijing and passed through expressways, winding mountain roads, and suburban unpaved off-road sections. Whether in congested commuting scenarios during morning and evening rush hours or on undulating potholed dirt roads in suburban forests, the Tantalum 700's chassis always demonstrated balanced capability that "takes care of both ends." It had neither the harsh bouncing of traditional hardcore off-road vehicles nor the flimsiness of unibody vehicles when facing heavy off-road use, truly achieving "not tiring to drive, and fully enjoyable to play."
Super Intelligent Driving: The "Jinghua Combination" Jointly Creates the Ceiling of Intelligent Driving
In the intelligent assisted driving segment that drew the most attention during this test drive, the Tantalum 700, as the world's first hardcore off-road model equipped with Huawei Qiankun ADS 5 full-scenario intelligent driving system, fully demonstrated to the test-drive media the hardcore strength of "one ladder frame plus intelligent driving, no fear wherever you go." This system, composed of Beijing Off-Road's "Jing" and Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving's "Hua," deeply combines the mechanical safety of hardcore off-road vehicles with the full-scenario intelligent experience of Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving. Its comprehensive capability even exceeds the intelligent driving configurations of many 500,000-yuan-class luxury models, steadily standing at the ceiling of 400,000-yuan-class Huawei intelligent driving.
The entire intelligent driving system is equipped with a top-tier matrix composed of 30 perception hardware units: 2 896-line dual-light-path image-level LiDARs, 5 millimeter-wave radars, 11 high-definition cameras, and 12 ultrasonic radars. The hardware specifications far exceed all models in the same class. Among them, the 896-line LiDAR has a resolution 4 times that of the industry-mainstream 192-line products and adopts the industry-first "integrated dual-focus" architecture. The wide-angle unit surveys the full forward road conditions, while the telephoto unit examines distant details, forming a high-definition "picture-in-picture" perception image. At night, it can identify low-reflection obstacles 122 meters away, and at 120 meters it can precisely detect 14 cm low-lying falling rocks. Even in severe weather such as rain, fog, and dust, the multi-sensor fusion perception system can cover for one another, completely avoiding the problem of traditional intelligent driving "missing or misreading" on off-road conditions.
Relying on the data accumulation of Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving ADS, which has cumulatively surpassed 13.7 billion kilometers of assisted driving mileage, the number one in the country, the WEWA 2.0 AI agent algorithm architecture carried by the Tantalum 700 has evolved to a brand-new stage: the cloud world engine introduces a "group game" mechanism, directly increasing game intensity by 10 times. Online reinforcement learning achieves "generation while learning, learning while verifying," also increasing efficiency by 10 times. On the vehicle side, it debuts defensive driving based on safety risk fields, directly reducing expected collision risk by 50%. Facing complex scenarios that traditional intelligent driving finds difficult to handle, such as narrow-road meeting, unprotected left turns, and pedestrian ghost probes, the Tantalum 700 performs completely like a calm and composed veteran driver, with anticipation and smoothness far exceeding the industry average.
It is worth mentioning that this intelligent driving system is also the industry's first to extend the boundary of intelligent driving to off-road scenarios. Not only can conventional highway NOA and urban NOA achieve smooth navigation assistance, but even scenarios without clear navigation information, such as rural dirt roads, park roads, roundabouts, and underground garages, can activate NCA with one touch. It also debuts class-leading off-road NCA assistance, which can assist the driver in completing crossings even on unmarked, potholed unpaved roads, thoroughly breaking the limitation that traditional intelligent driving "can only be used on paved roads," truly achieving "from your doorstep, directly taking you to any distant place you want to go."
Super Safety: All-Dimensional Fallback Protection for Travel Safety
The safety capability of the Tantalum 700 has never been reflected only at the chassis and intelligent driving levels. From the very beginning of the product definition stage, the team贯穿 military-grade safety standards into every detail of the entire vehicle. Combined with the five-fold fallback benefits launched during the presale period, it builds for users a sense of security across the entire lifecycle from purchase to use, from hardware to service.
The vehicle is equipped with Huawei CAS 5 all-dimensional anti-collision system, achieving a six-dimensional full-domain safety loop across all speeds, all directions, and all targets. The forward AEB effective range covers 1-150 km/h, and for vehicles it supports active avoidance at up to 100 km/h. It can even precisely respond to extreme sudden scenarios such as child ghost probes, and adds active rear-end collision prevention assistance, off-road oversteer stability control, and driver incapacitation assistance. When the driver suddenly feels unwell or is briefly distracted, the vehicle can discover risks earlier and react faster than a person. One second of advance handling can protect the travel safety of the whole family in the car. The armored battery exclusively supplied by CATL, paired with Beijing Off-Road's military-grade chassis protection, can fundamentally avoid battery safety risks even under violent impacts in heavy off-road scenarios, pulling the vehicle's safety standard to the ceiling of its class.
In response to users' greatest concerns when buying a car, such as "value retention anxiety" and "long-term use concerns," the Tantalum 700 directly provides solutions by offering fallback protection for all uncertainties in advance: the first non-operating owner can enjoy lifetime vehicle warranty, so there is no need for users to worry extra about subsequent vehicle issues; a one-year 80% no-reason value-retention buyback promise means that even if they regret the purchase, they can sell it without loss, with no concern about choosing the wrong car; four free door-to-door pick-up and delivery services per year, each one-way 50 kilometers, mean maintenance and repairs no longer require personally going to the after-sales point, and the saved time can be fully used to accompany family. At the same time, with lifetime warranty for the three electric systems and a 30,000-yuan high trade-in subsidy across the lineup, multiple presale benefits combine into full sincerity, providing the first batch of users who trust the Tantalum brand with full-cycle service guarantees far exceeding luxury brand standards.
This Tantalum 700 "Smart Fun Fish Seeking" full-scenario test drive event made us feel that the Tantalum 700 is not a "parameter monster" born to stack specifications, but an all-around off-road benchmark truly created from the perspective of family users' core needs. With pricing starting at 299,800 yuan across the lineup, it directly presses the leapfrog capabilities of "Huawei full-scenario high-level intelligent driving + professional off-road ladder chassis + health-oriented luxury cabin + military-grade safety protection" into a price range within 400,000 yuan. Looking across the entire domestic auto market, there is no second model that can balance all four core capabilities. For users who both want to comfortably explore the world with their families and want to go off-road and have fun whenever they wish, the Tantalum 700 not only provides the most perfect answer currently available on the market, but also officially opens the curtain on a new era of intelligent hardcore off-road vehicles.
