in the last hundred years, the internal combustion engine acts as a very important role, both aircraft and tanks, train or car, its power source is an internal combustion engine.
However, as time goes on, the engine is also undergoing a very significant change, just say gasoline car use, it has gone from very long development process, and the past decade, due to increased environmental protection and discharge pressure, small-displacement engine has become a trend, a growing number of family cars began to spend a three-cylinder engine, for example: Buick Hideo, Ford Focus, Honda Ling faction and so on.
[123 ] but to promote the three-cylinder machine was not always smooth. Take SAIC GM’s flagship three-cylinder engine: 1.0T and 1.3T three-cylinder engine three-cylinder engine, for example, manufacturers in optimizing vibration, improve the NVH made a great effort, even at the SAIC-GM under the original capital for the three-cylinder machine : eight one hundred and sixty thousand kilometers warranty!
Further, SAIC’s model using three-cylinder machine on the part to make concessions price, such as snow starting price terminal 佛兰科鲁泽has been less than sixty thousand which for a joint compact car, the full cost. Of course, such efforts on sales have paid off: the year sold 110,000 cars!
In this way, when we all thought that three-cylinder machine really want to become a trend, a message has changed our views: Buick Hideo, snow 佛兰科鲁泽, the more auspicious Bean has been burst, four-cylinder engine will dress. Buick Hideo, snow 佛兰科鲁泽 to be self-priming facelift 1.5L engine, while the more helter-skelter going to dress 1.4T four-cylinder engine. So, we have to consider such a problem: the development of three-cylinder machine Difficult yet?
know, three models, All 2019 sales of over a million vehicles in the month, snow 佛兰科鲁泽 Needless to say, Buick Hideo sold nearly 280,000 vehicles in 2019, Geely sold 130,000 over the same period the more helter-skelter, it is clear that these three models They are considered the leader in its class, but at this point, the collective facelift four-cylinder machine in the end is what kind of consideration for?
On the one hand, these three models may be in order to further the sales charts. Buick Hideo, snow 佛兰科鲁泽, the more helter-skelter lucky four-cylinder machine was broke facelift may not fall into the exclusion of all original powertrain, but to enrich the consumer’s choice. After all, one thing in common these three models exist: full-line three-cylinder. After the addition of the optional four-cylinder models, three models of competitiveness will undoubtedly become larger.
In an example Hideo, Hideo currently has two powertrain options, respectively, and a dual clutch 1.0T + 1.3T + 6AT gearbox, but consumers choose the time, there was a rather strange thing: a higher proportion of high-allocation model, which is the 1.3T models sell better than the 1.0T model (this point thanks to a substantial discount models) , while the other two models is more obvious, Ke Luze 1.3T 1.0T model is more than twice the sales of cars, the more helter-skelter auspicious beginning flagship is the 1.5T version.
[123 ] That is, if SAIC-GM 1.5L four-cylinder replaced with a three-cylinder 1.0T, 1.4T four-cylinder replaced with Geely automobile 1.0T triplex, there have been such a situation: the original sells well 1.3T (SAIC universal), 1.5T (Geely) models will be sold well, but later joined the optional four-cylinder models, but also to attract a lot of consumers scoff at three-cylinder machine, this way, can be said sales results only to rise.
On the other hand, from the manufacturer’s point of view, the popularity of three-cylinder machine might actually costly. More than three-cylinder gasoline and common 1.0T machine, for example, although a cylinder is reduced, but at the cost of the NVH optimization and a lot, especially on the upgrade machine mat material, the latter extended warranty costs, making the three-cylinder 1.0T machine cost, less self-absorption are not bound to 1.5L. Look at it this way, three-cylinder engine with its promotion of 1.0T, 1.5L really not as good in exchange for self-priming engine is more secure.
Furthermore, said even this three-cylinder machine sales are good, but for the same level of four-cylinder machine, it appears data not enough hard on the gas. And from the consumer level point of view, some people still believe that there is an optional four-cylinder engine three-cylinder machine, why should it choose? Unless the price, otherwise no reason actively choose three-cylinder engine models.
So now SAIC, Geely Automobile facelift four-cylinder machine, perhaps the wise, both on further sales, but also invincible in the cost. Then the next question consumers should be concerned about is: Dress four-cylinder engine will be what price set? Booster used to open the car, the car also self-priming and must be used to do? For the issue of a three-cylinder four-cylinder change, and how you see it?