In April 2018, Jiangxi Isuzu launched a new Suzuto pickup truck with excellent cost performance, which has received widespread attention with its multi-functional attributes of IKEA as soon as it was launched. In 2019, after being updated and upgraded, it was optimized in many aspects such as interior and configuration, and in 2020, the National VI automatic transmission model was launched, which further improved the pickup truck lineup of the Jiangxi Isuzu brand in the National VI era, which is more in line with the homeization trend of the rise of China's pickup trucks, and provides better car purchase options for Chinese pickup truck consumers.
Nowadays, with the gradual improvement of the level of passenger use of pickup trucks in China, the IKEA attributes of pickup trucks have been infinitely enlarged, and Jiangxi Isuzu Suzuto has once again launched an upgrade plan and will launch a gasoline version. The new car is equipped with a 2.0T engine, with a power of 162 kW and a torque of 350 N·m, matching the industry's most cutting-edge 8AT gearbox, and equipped with a five-link rear suspension that is rare in the global pickup truck market, and the product power is geometrically enhanced. Suzuto gasoline version will continue the quality of Isuzu for 100 years, whether it is product strength or quality control capabilities, it will stand at the forefront of the industry.
Suzuto is an international model based on the D-MAX platform, and D-MAX is manufactured in a collinear production mode, follows the Isuzu "ISUZU" logo, and is produced in strict accordance with the Isuzu IMM management system, so Suzuto's product strength and quality control capabilities are at the same level as D-MAX, and can compete with many world-class products. After the upgrading and remodeling in 2019 into the National Vi era, Suzuto not only inherits the D-MAX tough and stylish design style, the product force is to a higher level, but also sublimates the concept of practicality, high-end, passenger use and people-friendliness, and the emergence of the gasoline version will make it break through its own ceiling and become the world's only high-end passenger gasoline pickup truck with the "ISUZU" logo.
The current Guoliu Suzuto configuration has a series of high-end passenger configurations such as double airbags, 8-inch high-grade LCD large screen, Carlife & Carplay, reversing image, seat power 6-way adjustment, etc. The automatic transmission model is equipped with an electronic hydraulic assistance system, and the new gasoline model will be further improved on this basis to achieve unlimited passenger attributes close to the new D-MAX. In terms of power, the current model is equipped with a VM 2.5T diesel engine, and the future increase in gasoline power will enrich the product lineup to meet consumer expectations for high-end joint venture pickup trucks. In addition, Suzuto is also the only joint venture pickup truck in China that can provide long-haul models to meet the needs of different consumers to the greatest extent.
Excellent product power has laid the foundation for Jiangxi Isuzu Suzuto to stand out, and the value-added price is the booster of Suzuto's outbreak. The current Suzuto diesel national six manual transmission model price range of 11.18-14.38 million yuan, after upgrading the national six did not increase the price, the subsequent launch of the automatic transmission model inherits the purpose of increasing the amount of non-increased price, the price range is 12.28-15.08 million yuan, compared with the national five era of the Suzuto automatic transmission model is even cheaper, Suzuto gasoline version will continue this cost-effective tradition in the future, continue to provide consumers with high-quality, high-performance, affordable products.
Since 2018, the cumulative year-on-year growth rate of sales has continued to be stable at about 20%. In 2020, when the whole industry was under pressure due to the poor environment of China's automobile market and the epidemic, the sales volume black horse Lingtuo helped Jiangxi Isuzu to become one of the few enterprises in the market that could maintain single-month sales and annual sales in a year-on-year growth trend, and steadily entered the head camp, becoming the first joint venture and the third in the industry. The three advantages of world-class product strength, value-added cost performance, and Isuzu brand endorsement make Suzuto listed as an explosive model, and successfully continue the popularity to this day, and the comprehensively upgraded Suzuto gasoline version will continue its explosive temperament.
In addition to the success of Suzuto's comprehensive product strength is good enough, more importantly, Jiangxi Isuzu has a very accurate grasp of market demand, and the launch of the gasoline version is naturally no exception. Jiangxi Isuzu first entered the market and brought the concept of pickup truck life to Chinese consumers through D-MAX, which is the first joint venture brand in China with automatic pickup trucks. Subsequently, the emergence of Suzuto filled the product fault between high-end passenger pickup trucks and commercial economic products, which was very suitable for the development direction of China's pickup truck market with Yishang IKEA as the main trend. Today's launch of the Suzuto gasoline version shows the judgment of Jiangxi Isuzu on the development direction of China's pickup truck market at the current stage, and the gasoline pickup truck will achieve mutual achievements with the trend of passenger use. Suzuto gasoline version will set off a wave of evolution and upgrading of gasoline pickup products, opening a new blue ocean in the domestic pickup truck industry.
At present, the domestic gasoline pickup truck market share has steadily increased, but there are not many high-end gasoline pickup products with outstanding sales, and high-performance gasoline pickup trucks are even fewer, and the whole industry is still developing diesel power as the main development direction. However, in fact, gasoline power and passenger concept are more compatible, gasoline engine quietness, comfort, power explosion is better than diesel engine, and exhaust emissions are clean, with the improvement of technology The comprehensive fuel consumption level is also declining, which can bring users a better car experience. More importantly, gasoline power is more adaptable in the face of various road conditions and climatic environments, and is more suitable for the Chinese car environment with a large latitude span, a rich climate environment and a natural environment.
Suzuto gasoline version is to see the development advantages and actual car advantages of gasoline pickup trucks in the process of continuous advancement of passengerization, the new model will not only improve the jiangxi Isuzu pickup truck product system, further enhance market competitiveness, but also will rely on the unique "ingenuity quality" and higher cost performance, bring new opportunities for the development of Chinese pickup trucks. In the future, more pickup truck brands will step up the pace of new car research and development under the market catfish effect stimulated by Jiangxi Isuzu, and launch high-end gasoline models with excellent product strength and cost performance, jointly promoting the upward development of China's pickup truck industry.