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GM regret it? Buick, Chevrolet restart the four-cylinder engine?

Each vendor at the time to deal with the national emission regulations, the practice is not the same. Some manufacturers to join 48V light mixing system. And some manufacturers are using a three-cylinder engine, to further reduce emissions. Where GM’s Buick, Chevrolet is the most aggressive vendors, they will be its main selling models such as Hideo, Ke Luze other models, even in the car Mai Rui Bao XL, MPV Buick GL6 Replace All on a three-cylinder engine.

Hideo entire department equipped with 1.0T and 1.3T turbocharged three-cylinder engine in the mid-term facelift in October 2017, 2019 listing of the new models Ke Luze, equipped with the same engine models. SAIC-GM-Ecotec1.0T, 1.3T engine mounted on a wide range of its Buick, Chevrolet brand vehicle models.

consumers do not pay?

With the auto industry, the nature of the car is changing. We can clearly find that the car is now more and more is not durable. The original car is quality first, and now the car was based on emissions first, technology first. So we can see that today’s technology is more and more fancy cars, more and more functions useless. An endless stream of new concepts, what voice control, car networking, including a three-cylinder engine.

In fact, consumers of this concept is very exclusive, our 2019 best-selling car view, top-ranked Volkswagen Lavida sales of 490,900. Sylphy 475,000. Carola 350,700. Polaris 323 400. Basically front of the car sales are nothing fancy concepts are real family car. 2019 Buick Hideo the number of sales it? Is 256,800, which is about half Sunny.

Hideo sales fell seriously

2017 Buick Hideo has been Buick’s best-selling models one, who also had become a sales champion. But in the mid-term facelift in 2017 after the start of the three-cylinder engine equipped with a serious decline. Data show that in 2018 Hideo sales directly from the 421,000 the previous yearCars fell to 262,000. 2019, due to the larger terminal benefits, Hideo the price was dropped to about 7 million, while its competing models generally around 10 million. And GM also introduced eight years 160,000 km engine warranty, Hideo achieved an increase of sales volume, but still far compared with the sales before the facelift. Although there are still more than 20 million units sold, but considering Hideo competitor sales easily four or five hundred thousand, Hideo sales still can not say how good.

General Motors fell seriously

As the Buick, Chevrolet using a three-cylinder engine on many models, thus dragging down the entire SAIC-GM sales. 2019, SAIC-GM total sales of 1.4633 million, compared to a decrease of about 500,000 last year, down 25.7 percentage, which Buick and Chevrolet’s decline is most evident, especially universal three-cylinder Chevrolet, down 38.6 percentage.

four-cylinder engine return

Recently, the Ministry of the 328th installment of “road motor vehicle manufacturers and product announcement “new public information, there has been facelift L2B naturally aspirated engine (1.5L four-cylinder) Buick Hideo, snow 佛兰科鲁泽 two models. This type L2B Six Nations 1.5L four-cylinder engine self-priming, that is, before the same section of the 1.5L engine, compared to the country’s five old 1.5L engine models reduced by 1 horsepower, maximum power of 113 horsepower, or match 5MT or 6AT gearbox.

Universal would give it a three-cylinder engine?

While the four-cylinder engine declaration of return, but GM still will not take it to replace the existing three-cylinder engine, so in February 2019, GM announced its China headquarters in Shanghai whole new generation of internal combustion engine drive systems. The system includes owns 2.0T, 1.3T and 1.0T displacement derived from a variety of eighth generation Ecotec engine family, and the new CVT continuously variable transmission and a new generation of multi-level (9-speed / 10 speed) intelligent gearbox. According to the plan, throughWith installed capacity of next-generation automotive power system to reach 70 percentage, not to mention before General Motors has spent a lot of time and energy research and development. Therefore, the new 1.5L four-cylinder engine, three-cylinder engine can only be seen as a complement and not replace three-cylinder engine.

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