French cars are too miserable.
After years of downturn and repeated struggles on the brink of delisting, Citroen launched the Versailles C5X as a single seedling. As soon as it was listed, Versailles shouldered the burden of sales, and the average monthly sales of "Golden Nine Silver Ten" exceeded 10,000, and the "hope of the whole village" was well deserved. However, as soon as sales improved, there were car big V and Versailles bars, which caused a war of words and words, and "law blowing" and "law black" quarreled.
This scene makes people sigh: if Fukang is one of the "old three things" alongside Jetta and Santana, how did the French car fall into today's field? The Internet says that French cars are good, why are sales so miserable?
To tell the truth, the French car is mixed up like this, and it is not possible to complain about others, and it is all "made" by themselves. The culprit is the arrogance of the French, who refuse to cater to the Chinese market.
After The initial Fukang achieved a brief glory, Citroën may not have a clear understanding of its own status, and the introduction of new models and flagship products was seriously lagging behind, and repeatedly missed opportunities. And once indulged in "pulling the skin", Fukang pulled into the Elysée, C4 pulled into triumph, the value of the decline, the configuration can not keep up, the price is very strong. Young children may not know what Triumph looks like, it is this ugly thing:
With such a toss, french cars have lost their market share and brand influence. Beaten by the market, the French car still refuses to put down its body, and even if the Shenlong Group has half of the public's "understanding", it will not be so bleak.
When others are scrambling to introduce SUVs, French cars are engaged in such ugly things as Picasso; others have used 6AT gearboxes, French cars are still dead 4AT; other people's marketing is fighting configuration, than fuel consumption, eager to hold up the loudspeaker to the vegetable market publicity, French cars are not, with advertising fees to vote for events, very noble. Anyway, what the market likes, French cars do not do anything.
Each brand has its own core selling points, asthenic sells power, Japan sells the economy, and Volvo sells safety. What about French cars? Selling chassis?
One thing to say is that the chassis of the French car is really well done. An ancestral torque beam that is adjusted to be comparable to multiple connecting rods, and the compact Q-bullet is just right. However, for the average consumer, the control of the chassis is probably the most difficult to compare. The quality of the engine is felt when you step deeply, and the quality of the chassis is difficult to distinguish in the urban road conditions. Besides, compared to "a torque beam as good as independent suspension", wouldn't it be nice for me to buy a model with independent suspension directly?
The French brain circuits are really difficult to understand, and 8 of the 10 anti-human details on the cars are from French cars.
In the earliest Beverly Wilshire, the horn was not in the middle of the steering wheel, at the end of the light lever. There is also the dashboard on the center console, the steering wheel that does not turn the inner circle and the outer circle, and the strange design of Citroën is so many that people doubt life. Peugeot is not much better, the trunk button was once crammed in the middle of the "0" of the vehicle model "X08", is this design for anti-theft? There is also a luxury brand DS with a very low sense of presence, and the window control keys can be on both sides of the barrier, in the middle of the ceiling, that is, not on the door.
French cars are not completely without advantages, but they are sought-after goods in the second-hand car market - the retention rate is really too low, three years at a 5% discount, five years to break a bone. The retention rate is low, the new car cannot be sold, and the retention rate is even lower. Children and grandchildren, endless also; the cycle repeats, sooner or later, the household is extinct.
All in all, French cars are indeed good things, but they do not have the specialty of being independent and refuse to bow to the market. It's like a middle-class, well-behaved, and socially poor student, who has neither excellent grades nor the "bad boys" in the last row who can play a role in the sports meeting. When everyone mentioned him, there was only one sentence: "He, this child... Very good. ”
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