In ancient times, when people were still popular on BBS, in the forum that I regarded as the network stronghold, a senior forum friend summed up that when people set foot on society and reached the midpoint of life, there were four major events in the first half of the journey: buying a car, getting married and having children-basically, after doing the above four things, you were almost in your forties and 35.
So what should I be up to at the beginning of the second half? I remember asking that when I replied to the post.
And the reply from the host was very short soon-probably changing trains.
Can I change trains? This was just in the early twenties at that time, and the author who left home either by subway or by bicycle could not understand it.
After all, buying a car seemed so far away to me at that time.
I vaguely remember that it should have happened in 2007.
At that time, the streets of Shanghai were still full of “Pusang”.
Seventeen years was also a long time for life.
Even though all this seems like the memory of yesterday, I do come to the moment of the first great event in the second half of my life, as the big brother said.
Because on a weekend evening in mid-April this year my wife and I were returning home from the country park with our two-and-a-half-year-old daughter when the children after getting on the bus began to try to bounce on the back seat of the car.
This time however her little head hit directly on the roof of the car.
In the baby’s crying, I noticed all kinds of bits and pieces piled up in every corner of the car, and suddenly realized that the car seemed to need to be changed.
My first car was a compact fuel sedan owned by a joint venture brand which was purchased seven or eight years ago.
At that time, after a limited discount, the price of a naked car was just over 160000.
After changing the LCD dashboard, and then taking into account various taxes and first-year car insurance, the final landing price of the vehicle is about 180000.
There is no need to guess this is the original joint venture sedan chair by the author.
The price seems a bit incredible today, but it is quite reasonable in 2016.
As a matter of fact, if you want to buy a car in Shanghai, if you do not intend to hang a non-local license plate, then on the basis of the above price, you must include the cost of “the most expensive iron sheet in the country”.
So in order to win that A-class sedan chair that year, the author can be said to be hollowing out the accumulation of seven or eight years of work and making use of the bank’s discount activities at that time, and finally had to rely on a little sponsorship from his parents.
I’m afraid only those friends in Beijing who have been waiting in line for ten years can understand the pain.
And the car of that era was really a compact car unless you were willing to pay a premium for the Japanese system or it was officially defined as Class A.
The so-called A+ cross-border? I’m sorry, it didn’t exist at that time.
Of course from the perspective of the author when I bought a car whether it was the initial single era or the world of two people at the beginning of their marriage the A-class car was still comfortable.
After all, our family’s need for cars is basically enough, except for daily commutes, occasional holiday trips, and so on.
This situation lasted until the birth of the daughter.
Having more than one child in the car is not just a matter of occupying more seats, it will inevitably lead to a subversive change in family car habits.
The author’s daughter is also the basic driver of the car-changing incident-at a certain stage, the female treasure is no worse than the male treasure, first of all, the seats are more tense.
Whether it is the baby basket before the age of one, or the necessary baby safety chair after a little older, there is actually only one seat left in the already inspacious back seat.
So occasionally pick up a relative to give a personal or something, the number is also limited to a maximum of two.
In addition, the strollers that children cannot leave before they reach the age of 4, as well as the various bits and pieces necessary for young children to go out, are bound to occupy the space in the trunk for quite a long time thereafter.
And if you want to travel, the serious wife will also bring her own electric kettle and so on, in order to ensure absolute hygiene.
The second problem is the commuting cost.
I need to send my wife to work in the morning.
The total mileage is 44.3km. Because the distance between work and home is too far, my daily commute distance is very long.
It’s just that if you commute to and from work by yourself, the daily round trip distance is at least 70km.
If you need to send your wife downstairs in the morning, the total mileage will reach 80 kilometers.
Among them, if the fuel consumption is converted according to the average fuel consumption of 7.
5L, the daily light fuel cost will be 45 yuan at the current oil price.
And that doesn’t count the maintenance money.
Of course the last point is also the consideration of vehicle life.
After all, it has passed the inspection exemption cycle, and Dabao has also been carried out twice, with a cumulative driving distance of nearly 140000 kilometers.
No matter follow-up maintenance or equipment aging considerations, these factors combined with the above two, the conclusion is also clear.
It’s time to reconsider the problem of cars.
The key now is to change cars or buy another car.
Many families in Shanghai are likely to choose to buy another new energy car when the current car at home cannot meet their needs.
However, there is a premise for such an operation, that is, the current car at home must be a “cart”.
, or it is a Bamp C-class car with relatively plenty of space, or even a SUV of the size of Tuguan L, Henlanda or even Tuen.
The situation in the author’s home is not in line with this, because I am an A-level family sedan chair.
So, when it comes to me, there is only one option to change trains.
But it is worth talking about what kind of car to change.
It goes without saying that there is a large internal space and can hold these two points.
In addition, given my daily commuting distance, the fuel economy of the new car must be significantly improved.
However, there is a key contradiction at this point.
In fact, the fuel consumption of my old car, which has been driven for seven or eight years, can be described as “excellent” among all fuel cars.
Although as an A-class car, it has to drink No.
95 “fine grain”, it has an amazing performance of 100km / h and 3.
8L at 100km speed.
Picture | forgive me for shaking my hands when shooting.
Of course, this fuel consumption is not the best performance of the vehicle, and under the condition that there is no congestion on the one-way 35km from the author’s home to the unit (15km ground road + 20km urban expressway), its one-way fuel consumption can be as low as 4.7L. Even if half of the roads are heavily congested during the peak period, they can still be pressed on the 8L line.
Therefore, according to the above daily fuel consumption of 45 yuan, according to 26 days a month, the monthly fuel cost is now 1170 yuan.
As a matter of fact, I ran in some parts before.
In many months, the monthly fuel bill has exceeded 1400 yuan.
To sum up the new car must be a new energy model.
Considering the improvement in interior space, it is clear that the SUV has an advantage over simply replacing a B-Class or C-Class sedan.
And since it is a medium-sized new energy SUV, then smart cabins also need to keep up.
After all, as an automobile practitioner, there is no reason why I should not keep pace with the times.
In this way the question is actually very clear ah? But don’t worry, it’s not really up to me.
After getting married no matter buying a car or buying a house it is impossible to be arbitrary in China whenever there are major family events.
However, the author’s wife doesn’t like SUV.
Her reason is also very simple-the SUV is ugly and the car looks good! In addition, my wife doesn’t like all kinds of new energy cars.
Because of her Douyin account, she pushed something like “the train is on fire” all day.
Home has never been a reasonable place.
Even if you are a practitioner, your spouse can easily “retort” by saying, “if you know, everyone else is stupid.
” What, you can argue with your wife? The family once considered buying a Mercedes-Benz C-Class sedan, but even if the previous discount was within the budget, it could be said that it was nothing, and it was also expensive to maintain high fuel consumption.
In order to persuade and communicate, the editor took his wife to a number of 4S stores to test drive a number of B-class and C-class fuel cars.
It took a lot of effort to achieve a perfect retreat with solid head space and the height of the back floor.
However, security concerns are more troublesome, and after finding that it doesn’t make sense, I can only take my wife’s mobile phone and refresh her account tag.
Finally, it took more than a week to re-establish a new push index relationship.
Finally, after two weeks of painstaking work after deciding to change cars, my family finally reached an agreement between husband and wife on whether to change cars and what type of car to change.
The new energy smart SUV of medium size and above cannot choose pure electricity, but it must be mixed or extended.
Because there is a fixed parking space at home and you can install private piles, you can use the trough price from 22:00 to 6: 00 the next day to recharge.
In other words, if all goes well, the commuting cost per kilometer can be reduced to less than 10 cents, that is, 7-8 yuan per day, because the electricity price of the Shanghai power grid at midnight is only 0.
307 yuan per kilowatt-hour.
It is really nice to be able to save 1000 yuan on gas every month.
Of course there is the question of the scope of the budget.
On this point, the outcome of the couple’s discussion is to limit the landing price to no more than 280000 based on the cash available to the family.
After confirming the change of cars and defining the scope of the budget, we came to the final but also the most critical question of what kind of car to buy.
The non-pure electric hybrid smart SUV model with a budget of no more than 300000 requires at least an intermediate size-the range of models so delineated is not very many in the current domestic car market, but there are actually some options.
Subjectively speaking the author’s first choice is to buy the Ultra series which has just been released by the new M7.
At the end of May this year, the editor was invited to attend the media test drive of the new M7 Ultra and was quite satisfied with its performance except for fuel consumption.
How can it be so specific that when you have to pay for it yourself, it is over budget.
Although the fuel consumption of the add-on vehicle is no better than that of the same size fuel SUV, the new M7 series has a large battery of 40kWh and 42kWh.
With a car length of more than 5 meters and a wheelbase of 2.
82 meters, the interior space of a big five-seater model is so abundant that children can jump or jump at will.
In addition, the Q & A series is also the most satisfactory to the author in terms of intelligence.
The new M7 Ultra is equipped with CDC suspension throughout the department.
If you choose a four-wheel drive version, linked to the intelligent driving system, you can achieve most of the functions of the Turing chassis.
But the crux of the problem is the budget.
The starting price of the Ultra version is 289800 yuan, which goes right through my budget ceiling.
And as we all know, naked cars do not choose something, and then buy some accessories such as electric pedals and small tables on the back of chairs in their shopping malls.
Why not buy a BYD? After hitting a brick wall on the side of the question, the wife put forward her opinion.
This reminds me that, after all, since this year, BYD has been the fastest-growing new energy brand in Hong Kong.
The current Tang and frigate 07 DM-i models are in line with the previously delineated range, and the price can be said to be very affordable.
There happened to be a dynasty network store in the business center not far from home so we went for a test drive the weekend after we put forward this suggestion.
The overall feeling can be said to be regular there is no slot but it is not amazing.
Afterwards, I asked the neighbors who drove the same car in the community, and was told that the fuel consumption was really “very fragrant”-running at high speed in the state of feeding, and the fuel consumption under 130~140km was only more than 7.
In the author’s residential area, the “concentration” of BYD is actually very high.
Take a closer look at the BYD with almost one water in the private charging pile, but what the author needs is a big five-seater, and the cash Tang has only six and seven models.
In addition, in terms of personal aesthetics, its hybrid model looks a little old-fashioned.
On the other hand, Ocean Network’s frigate 07 is a big five-seater model, but after seeing it in the store, my wife said that she “can’t accept this grinning look.
” After some entanglement I finally gave up.
After that I have considered Lantu FREE and ideal L6.
However, the former will not be available until the end of June, although its up-and-down central console triple screen has a good sense of technology, after all, it has not yet been delivered, and I am not sure about it.
It would be nice to bask in the sun without a sunshade.
Would it be ideal without a big color TV in the back row? As for the ideal L6, the refrigerator + large sofa is really enjoyable for his wife and children, but despite its nominal acceleration of 5.
6 seconds and 100 seconds, the driving experience is quite “rowing”.
His driving experience, at least in my opinion, can almost be judged by no experience at all.
What’s more, with the “refrigerator color TV big sofa” to play the brand of the ideal L series to the L6, after all, the lack of the back row “big color TV” configuration ah.
I’m already a little picky about the change of cars.
I won’t hide it from you either.
I did have a little thought, but it was just a “move”.
During this time, we have seen the equation Leopard and the tank.
After trying out whether to buy Leopard 5 or Tank 400, I got my wife’s soul question-do you just want to get a new car to play with yourself in the name of both of us and the family? Of course, these two cars also have problems.
After all, the current prevailing hardline off-road not only has a small mileage of pure electric driving, but also consumes ugly fuel.
It does deviate from the previously planned use and the purpose of changing cars.
At one point, the author planned to settle for the second best and consider the new M5, but found that the improvement of its space in the back row was very limited.
In the end, I had no choice but to give up.
, Until near the end of May, there was still no one to be sure.
In many cases, too many choices and too accurate positioning can also pose a major obstacle to implementation.
But the connecting flight also appeared at this time.
On the Thursday of the last week of May I took the opportunity of having lunch to complain to my colleagues about the problems I encountered when looking at the car and choosing a car.
At this time, Mr.
du of the commune suddenly chimed in: “Why don’t you consider Leike 08?” For a car matchmaker, the name of Lecker is certainly no stranger.
Even in the neighborhood where I live, there is a neighbor in his mid-twenties who commutes with a Lecker 03 every day.
The reason why I can remember this car is that the person’s driving style feels like his feet are welded to the accelerator pedal.
Perhaps because of the above reasons, the author has a certain stereotype, and it is generally believed that this is a car brand completely aimed at young people.
But in fact, both the brand flagship Lecker 09 series and the recently listed Lecker 07 are also in transition in recent years, and the proportion of household attributes in the brand is constantly increasing.
, picture | “unimagined road” lights up! As for Lecker 08 mentioned above, not only does it fully meet the requirements initially delineated, but with my budget, I can choose a top with a four-wheel drive version to satisfy the family of three who is in charge of driving, so a little bit of desire for driving texture.
So on Saturday of that week I took my wife and children and went to the Lecker Center to see the car and test drive.
As a result of that day the three members of my family including the baby under the age of 3 unanimously decided to buy the car.
The wife, who has been reluctant to buy a SUV, expressed her final approval for this decision with the concerted efforts of the ventilation and massage function of the seat and the leg support of the co-driver.
Dabing belongs to International Children’s Day’s world.
On June 20, three weeks later, the car was shipped from the Yuyao factory to Shanghai.
After receiving the notice from the dealer, I mentioned the car the next day.
Picture | the only picture of the two cars together, and then the next thing is actually easy.
Contact the used car store and come to see the car.
As for the work of withdrawing the license, it will be done by the other side through the train.
So on July 1, I went to the DMV to get a green card with a blue quota.
With regard to the new energy licensing rules on the Shanghai side, there is no special explanation here.
Since this is entirely a true account of the author’s personal experience of changing cars, and in order to avoid being mistaken that this is a “recharge article”, we will not introduce the specific performance, advantages, and even sales policies of Lecker 08.
Anyway, this is all public information.
, picture | after playing the card, finally “all” ….
A friend once said: those who envy your work in automotive media are very familiar with the industry and always buy a car right.
But after reading my experience you must be able to break the original filter somewhat.
After all, the car I first considered buying, and the brand and model I finally chose, can be said to be completely out of reach.
When car matchmakers buy a car, they are also subject to their own cognitive limitations, and often because they know too much irrelevant things, there is often a problem that there is too much information to filter.
If a friend wants to ask me how I feel about using it for a month, then I can pertinently give the word “satisfied” as an answer.
There are also some inadequacies, such as smart driving, which is indeed far ahead.
Fortunately, Geely, Meizu, and Black Sesame Intelligence, which provides smart driving solutions, are hard enough.
Since its launch in September last year, the system version number has been updated to 1.4.3. Therefore, all defects and deficiencies can be viewed from a developmental perspective.
However, at the end of this story, I believe someone has already found the problem-you said above, you want to match the private pile, there is nothing “happy” again.
So have you loaded it yet? The story was not over before the private stake was attached to the back wall.
In fact the editor’s big car change plan is really stuck here.
Up to the time this article was published, the editor was still charging with the public piles in the community, charging 1.
29 yuan per kilowatt-hour.
Because in early July, my wife found the property request to be stamped with the document applying for the installation of the electric meter (before installing the charging pile, the corresponding electric meter must be applied to the China Power Grid).
As a result, he was dismissed on the grounds that “the basement substation room is full of power”.
The charging pile must be installed in any case otherwise the car replacement plan would be a half-silly joke.
At present, the follow-up wrangling is under way, and the editor decides to describe it in the next article about the specific process and the final result.
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