Once playing on the street with his family, he always stared at the traffic for a while, and gradually recognized the brands and models of many cars. At that time, there were domestic Fuji Heavy Industries Skylark, Suzuki Alto, Volkswagen Jetta, Citroën Fukang; imported Toyota Corolla, Honda Masao (accord at that time transliteration), Toyota Camry (Camry's transliteration at that time) and Sempor 9-3 (Saab's transliteration at that time), etc., these names were memorized in the hearts of young brothers.
However, in the mind of Brother Zhi, along with these memories, there is still a saying at that time, that is, "driving a BMW and sitting on a Mercedes", brother Understand now recalls this sentence is still fresh in his memory, after all, until today in 2021, there are still many people around me who hold this view. So the question is, dear friends in front of the screen, do you think this sentence is still valid? Let's talk about this interesting topic today.
Brother understands that he plans to divide into two parts to talk about this topic for everyone, let's start from the source of this sentence, why was there a saying that "drive a BMW and sit in a Mercedes"? This has to start from our domestic automobile market environment at that time. After the rapid development of the 70s and 80s, China's automobile industry soon came to the 90s. Although official cars and leadership cars have been gradually improved at this time, the private car market is still lackluster. At that time, the people with a little money could buy the car is nothing more than the model listed at the beginning of the article, and to say that the "ceiling" at that time may be codenamed W126, W140 these two generations of Mercedes-Benz S-class, the owner of these two generations of models at that time, in the country can be said to be not rich is expensive, plus at that time such owners generally hire drivers to drive, so the "drive BMW to sit Mercedes- Benz" remarks are fermented from this.
As for BMW, the equivalent of the Mercedes-Benz S-class in that era was the 7 Series, but it could not compete with the market position and popularity. On the contrary, the lower positioning of the 5 series, and the later 3 series, are more favored by the market. For example, the following figure shows this generation of BMW 5 Series. Since this kind of smaller and more deviating from the size of the administrative level of the car has gained favor, then its driving characteristics naturally make everyone impressed by it, after all, this positioning model, the owner of the driver is still a minority after all, they personally drive the majority.
Of course, the above is an external cause. Internal factors, the characteristics of Mercedes-Benz and BMW at that time are indeed different, for example, the adjustment of the throttle, Mercedes-Benz is obviously more relaxed, giving many people the impression of "not sensitive enough" and "the car is quite bulky"; and BMW reacts faster in terms of throttle adjustment, giving people the impression of "this car is very good to drive" and "acceleration sensitive". The above is just an example of understanding the brother, in fact, in the suspension adjustment of the vehicle, the steering reaction of the steering wheel, etc., the style is indeed different. In other words, people's phrase "drive a BMW and ride a Mercedes" is not entirely unreasonable.
The second part of the understanding brother wants to talk about the "driving BMW and riding a Mercedes" in the context of the current new era. We take this generation of the new BMW 3 Series as an example, many people have called the BMW 3 Series after the test drive to lose their control essence! The suspension has become softer, and the sound insulation is even comparable to the higher level of the 5 Series. In contrast, the current new Mercedes-Benz C-Class, in fact, the control is not so bad, much better than the old model, and also has a sensitive control reaction. So this is an interesting phenomenon, different brands of models actually present a kind of "identity" (refers to two things or multiple things can coexist, with the same nature), which is very emotional.
In fact, this change is not difficult to understand, many people buy a car to pursue excellent driving pleasure, but he does not pay attention to comfort? Although some people pay attention to comfortable driving performance, but he also wants to get a good handling experience when driving a vehicle, these are the common feelings of people, after all, everyone is always "greedy", the more things they want to get, the better. Fortunately, in today's 2021, automotive technology is developing rapidly, and product tuning like the above is not difficult to achieve.
Seeing this, does it mean that today's Mercedes-Benz and BMW, their personalities are completely interchangeable? Not really. Genes and tonality are quite important for a brand (especially a big brand), which is like its soul, giving life to the product. Therefore, we have to analyze the problem dialectically, after all, everyone is an adult, and not all the answers to the question are either right or wrong. Say Mercedes-Benz is comfortable, but people's AMG series performance is incredibly strong, said BMW driving fun is high, but the comfort level of the 7 Series is no less than a Mercedes-Benz S. Just as the world is originally colorful, not just black and white.