Performance car "back to the light".
Author: Liang Zhihao
Overseas epidemics have repeatedly raged, China 6 emissions are pressing step by step, the economic environment is sluggish, plus electrification has swept the global auto market, and all kinds of pessimism have made domestic fuel performance car enthusiasts feel a little "desperate".
For example, I "panicked" some time ago to buy the eighth generation of golf GTI, because in my opinion, this is not only very likely to be the last generation of pure fuel GTI model, but even in the future, the Golf series will be replaced by ID.3.
But now it seems that my "panic" seems to have come a little too early, because the fuel performance cars in the Chinese market may usher in a wave of final carnival next year. A large number of manufacturers who used to be extremely stingy with the Chinese market and unwilling to introduce performance cars, in order to grasp the small tail before electrification, suddenly had a big change of one hundred and eighty degrees in attitude...
The Civic Type-R is coming soon
Yesterday, Dongfeng Honda's "royal" driver, the well-known media person Xie Xinzhe, revealed a heavy news on Weibo: Dongfeng Honda will officially introduce the 11th generation Civic Type-R model.
Previously, Honda's Type-R model has always been able to enter the Chinese market through parallel import channels, and it is priced at less than 300,000 yuan overseas, due to various taxes, importers' profits and "sentiment prices", and can bid 700,000 yuan per minute in China. Due to the lack of "checks and balances" through official channels, most of the "Honda powder" can only be deterred in the face of such prices.
With honda's official "entry", the rampant domestic Civic Type-R price is bound to be effectively suppressed in the future, which also means that this small steel cannon that should be "close to the people" will no longer be a big toy that only a few people can have in the domestic market.
Before Honda, many brands have announced that their performance cars will return or enter the Chinese market next year.
86/BRZ arrived as promised
Toyota's 86 and Subaru's BRZ are important in the minds of fans, so naturally I don't need to talk too much nonsense. Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, this is just a small sports car with no power and no sports car appearance, but for its audience, it is an extremely easy and fun driving experience that is difficult for any high-horsepower sports car to provide.
But with the arrival of China 6 emissions, the two fun cars of 86 and BRZ bid farewell to the Chinese market in 2017, which also led to the soaring price of their used cars. However, some time ago, Subaru has officially announced that the new generation of BRZ will be reintroduced into the Chinese market, and the new car will be priced at 308,800 yuan (manual transmission) and 330,800 yuan (automatic transmission).
The introduction of the new generation of Toyota GR86 is also in an orderly manner, and the two cars are expected to be officially delivered to the hands of fans next year. At the same time, Toyota's other blockbuster performance car, gr Yaris, will be introduced next year if there is no accident after teasing the Chinese market for a long time.
However, it is worth noting that gr86/BRZ has been determined to be unable to pass the national 6B emissions, so the cities that have implemented the national 6B emissions in advance such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen will not be able to be listed, and by 2023, China will fully implement the national 6B emissions, so the time left for us in these two cars may only be a short year.
Nissan also came to join in the fun
In addition to Toyota, Honda, which used to focus only on building "grocery shopping cars", which want to continue to dig deep into the performance car market, even Nissan, which is famous for its Buddhist system, also plans to join in the fun next year.
The new Nissan 400Z has been revealed to be introduced to China next year, this small sports car equipped with a 3.0T twin-turbo engine is more grumpy than Toyota's 86, and in addition to manual transmission, it will also provide a higher specification 9AT gearbox for consumers to choose.
In my opinion, the introduction of the 400Z will be the last chance for Nissan to reverse its previous brand image before it is fully electrified.
Porsche also said it kindly
Previously, the 25th anniversary edition of the Porsche 718 had attracted a lot of criticism for this ultra-luxury brand due to the difference between the Chinese market and overseas markets. The foreign version is a 4.0L large-displacement self-priming engine, but the domestic version only has 2.5T, which has become the biggest controversy of this car.
And just when we all thought that the 718, which had reached the end of the product life cycle, would leave the Chinese market with such criticism, Porsche announced some time ago that it would officially introduce a new 718 GT4 RS model, which will be equipped with the 4.0L large-displacement self-priming engine that everyone wants, the engine speed can reach 9000 rpm, the maximum horsepower is 500 horses, which is the strongest 718 in history.
Everyone also lamented that Porsche finally saw the 718 model in the Chinese market this time, in fact, in addition to the little sister, there are many buyers who really like performance cars.
Circle money or wish
As a car company, the introduction of a new car into a new market is definitely to make money, not some "internationalist spirit". To be honest, in the initial stage of development of china's automobile market, this kind of performance car with a strong playful nature, expensive price and lack of practicality is really the introduction of one to lose, which also leads to everyone becoming more conservative about the introduction of performance cars.
When the concept of Chinese people using cars slowly changed, and the wallet was also "drummed", everyone also began to find that those models that were not cherished in the past could not be bought now. At the same time, with the approaching electrification, the policies of various countries in the world are becoming less and less tolerant of these "unenvironmental" models, and the end of performance cars can be described as a countdown.
But for car companies, the car is built, is to sell, only sold to recover the huge cost of research and development, although these performance cars may not be able to make a lot of money when introduced into the country, but can sell a is one, after all, no longer sell, may never have a chance. Therefore, we can also see that in this time when the sun should be a fuel vehicle, the major car companies are doing the opposite and have begun to engage in performance cars in the Chinese market.
The introduction of a large number of performance cars next year is by no means a clarion call for fuel vehicles to blow a counter-offensive, on the contrary, it is likely to be a return to the light before their demise... However, no matter what the purpose of the car company to introduce these models, it is the last opportunity for the fans to "wish but wish".
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