“now the car companies have given up the three-cylinder engine, and the car can’t be sold.
” At the regular meeting on Monday the editorial department of the automobile commune was brainstorming about the three-cylinder engine and lamented the changes of the times.
Once upon a time a new generation of three-cylinder engines emerged in response to increasingly stringent emission regulations just as the market abandoned the V6 and turned to the L4 era for environmental reasons.
Then, including General Motors, Ford, BMW, Japanese Top three, etc.
, all pulled out their own three-cylinder engines.
It was a period when car companies were obsessed with three-cylinder engines, and they bravely took the first step to raise the height of the three-cylinder engine strategy into an important symbol of the times.
The same is true of the Chinese market.
From American to French, and then to independent brands, many actively participate in promoting the development of three-cylinder engine technology and landing related models.
However, as a commercial body, car companies are ultimately profit-oriented and sales-oriented, but three-cylinder models are not as expected in the market all the year round, which also discourages car companies.
After receiving the market education, the car companies also stopped their losses in time and opened a strategic retreat, resulting in the disappearance of the three-cylinder engine and abandoned by the times.
One of the most representative models is the Ford focus.
Before carrying the three-cylinder engine, the Fox was quite successful in the Chinese market, known as the “small steel gun” model.
With good chassis adjustment and strong power, its monthly sales exceeded 40,000 vehicles at its peak.
It has won the top spot in the A-class sedan market for several months in a row, and the existence of the proper magic car level has also helped Ford rush to the annual sales mark of one million vehicles in the Chinese market.
When the time came to 2019 Ford suddenly announced that the focus was equipped with a three-cylinder engine with three power options of 1.
0T and 1.5T. Among them, the 1.
5T version of Fox sells for more than 150000 yuan, which is questioned by the majority of consumers.
Coupled with unacceptable jitter problems and high fuel consumption, sales directly collapsed, so that the market witnessed the fall of a generation of miraculous cars.
Now, although the Fox has put the three-cylinder version on the market, the decline in sales has long been irreparable, especially in the face of the increasingly strange competitive environment in the current car market.
Fox sold only one car in April this year.
This is the end of the first generation of miraculous cars.
In the face of the cruel reality, you can only clap your legs to regret the failure of the triplex strategy and lament the ruthlessness of the car market.
The same is true of SAIC GM.
Last year, SAIC GM sold 1.
001 million vehicles, down 14.
45% from the same period last year.
Although it is still one of the few companies in the Chinese market to achieve annual sales of more than one million vehicles, this achievement has halved compared with its peak.
There is a cognitive consensus that many people believe that the development of three-cylinder engines in 2019 is one of the main reasons for the decline in sales.
At that time SAIC GM carried the three-cylinder engine on various major models of Buick Chevrolet and Cadillac including classic models such as Yinglong Uncora and Marebo XL.
The worst of them is Buick Yinglang.
Like Fox Yinglong as a blockbuster model of the Buick brand has always been responsible for sales.
It once won the title of domestic car sales champion with annual sales of more than 400000 vehicles.
But the good times didn’t last long.
After carrying the 1.
0T and 1.
3T three-cylinder engines developed by GM, Yinglang’s sales suddenly plummeted and no one bought it at a 30% discount.
Later, the sales of Yinglang, which was re-equipped with four-cylinder engines, also picked up briefly and reached a new high in one month that year.
From the current point of view, whether it is the collapse in sales of related models or the overall poor performance of SAIC GM, the three-cylinder strategy is to blame.
It is not only the loss of sales, but also the three-cylinder strategy that has a negative impact on SAIC GM’s brand power.
In addition to the above-mentioned models and brands Geely like its own brand has also invested heavily in Geely colorful 06 Lecke 03 and other models have used three-cylinder engines.
But today, all Geely’s three-cylinder engines have been completely replaced by four-cylinder engines, focusing on a dare to try and turn back decisively.
In addition, among the luxury brands, only BMW uses three-cylinder engines, and Mercedes-Benz Audi has not set foot in this field.
BMW’s specially supplied 1-Series hatchback and the lengthened BMW X1 use a large number of 1.
5T three-cylinder engines in the Chinese market.
However, the BMW 1-Series top configuration still uses a four-cylinder engine.
From the market performance point of view, the use of three-cylinder BMW X1, even if the price continues to reduce, but terminal sales are still not optimistic.
Although the enterprises involved in the three-cylinder engine strategy all ended in failure, is the three-cylinder engine really that bad? First of all in terms of cost the development cost of a three-cylinder car is even higher than that of a four-cylinder vehicle and its power performance is also good.
In particular, the new generation of three-cylinder engine has the characteristics of higher combustion efficiency, low emissions, not weak power, smaller size, lighter weight and so on.
It is not the product of useless environmental protection policies and its own Jerry-building.
However, in terms of the final car experience, the three-cylinder engine has the disadvantage of physical jitter, which is not only difficult to solve, but also the more the vehicle shakes the longer it is driven, which is why it is difficult for consumers to accept the three-cylinder engine.
Although manufacturers continue to try to solve this problem by technical means, including balancing shaft, dynamic damping, offset counterweight, dual mass / eccentric flywheel, intake resonator, hydraulic suspension and so on, but it is only restrained to a certain extent, and can not fundamentally eliminate the jitter of the three-cylinder engine.
After a big lap, the car companies are also getting over it-spending energy to improve the jitter of the three-cylinder engine, why not just use the four-cylinder engine? In addition, with the wild run of independent brands in the hybrid track, it further accelerates the fate of the triplex engine being abandoned.
Autonomous hybrid systems including BYD DM-i, Raytheon Hi X, Great Wall Lemon DHT, Changan Blue Whale iDD, Chery Kunpeng DHT and other autonomous hybrid systems are all four-cylinder engines with continuous improvement of thermal efficiency, continuous optimization of compression ratio, lower and lower fuel consumption and better energy-saving properties.
In contrast, the three-cylinder engine has no advantages at all, its disadvantages are magnified, and it is naturally eliminated.
But then again although car companies have abandoned the three-cylinder strategy there are still many three-cylinder models in circulation on the market and their jitter problems accompany consumers year after year.
Moreover, this wobble will become more and more violent as time goes on, like a storm slapping the weak hearts of triplex engine users who may break through at any time because of the heavy pressure of life.
, ZaMy heart is fine, old iron.
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