Videos of confusing behavior of driving school cars are on fire on the Internet, accompanied by funny operations and brainwashing background music, which really makes people cry and laugh. I don't know if you have found that no matter which driving school, the students have changed batches and batches, but Santana and Jetta will never give up.
This is all 2022, Tesla Roadster sports cars have been driving Space X to the sky, why driving schools across the country, still have a deep love for the mediocre Santana and Jetta, longing for. The Japanese car, which is recognized as fuel-efficient and durable, has never entered the driving school.
This is a seemingly esoteric philosophical question.
In fact, in that year, there were very few car brands that could be seen on the domestic road, and the models that could be train cars had to be models with high visibility on the market, and in this regard, Volkswagen had the most experience.
You know, since the establishment of Shanghai Volkswagen in 1984, Santana has been in China for more than 37 years and is still a good car that sells well.
The Japanese brand entered the country much later, Honda in 1998, Toyota in 2002, and Nissan until 2003. Therefore, Santana can become the "originator" of the coach car, and part of it is also the reason why it occupies the right time and place.
In addition, japanese cars were still imported cars, so the price was really not cheap. For example, Toyota Camry is about 400,000, crown is 480,000, and even the cheapest Honda Civic is about 300,000. In contrast, at that time, Poussin only had 140,000 yuan, and the price was cheaper than the Japanese car by more than half, so how to choose it was clear at a glance.
Not only the price is lower, the leather is durable is also the unanimous evaluation of Santana by old drivers, in the mileage of online drying, 700,000 to 800,000 kilometers of Santana unit cars are not in the minority, and the professor has seen the highest, is 1.2 million kilometers!
At the same time, Santana has a large ownership base, maintenance costs are also cheap, and the cost of use is low. Just like the advertising slogan of the year, "With Santana, I am not afraid to go all over the world."
However, nowadays, Japanese cars do have more say than German cars in terms of durability as a whole, first of all, the failure rate of Japanese cars is lower than that of German cars.
In the 2021 new car quality research report, GAC Honda ranked first among mainstream brands with an average of 184 problems per 100 vehicles, while Dongfeng Honda, GAC Toyota and FAW Toyota ranked 4th, 5th and 9th respectively.
The only German brands in the top ten mainstream brands are SAIC Volkswagen, with 203 problems per 100 vehicles.
The failure rate of 100 cars can be understood as: the lower the value, the less likely it is to fail, and the more reliable and durable the car.
The reason why Japanese cars are more durable is mainly reflected in the three major parts, taking the engine as an example, the British car warranty agency Warranty Direct has a study.
Among the top 10 engine reliability: Honda and Toyota are 1st and 2nd respectively, Lexus is 6th, Nissan is 9th, and only Mercedes-Benz is a German brand in the top 10. Other German brands like Audi ranked second from the bottom of all brands, BMW ranked 7th from the bottom, and Volkswagen ranked 9th from the bottom.
The reason why the Engine of Japanese cars is more reliable is also very much related to their own car-making concepts, for example, they themselves are biased towards using mature technology, and all innovations and breakthroughs are carried out under the premise of ensuring quality control, which is why Japanese cars give people a more conservative feeling.
Just like a stable student in the class, although he did not have a very good score in each exam, he played steadily as a whole, and he passed above the level every time. Another student who played erratically sometimes ranked first in the class and sometimes ranked last.
Another benefit that the mature technology of Japanese cars can bring is that the maintenance cost of the later period is lower. In the 13th issue of the automotive zero-to-piece ratio data released by the China Insurance Research Institute of Automotive Technology, most of the top ten are luxury German brands led by BBA, and the higher the zero-to-whole ratio means the higher the cost of post-maintenance.
Therefore, durability, low maintenance costs, and fuel consumption advantages have accumulated a good reputation for Japanese cars, which also leads to a higher overall retention rate than German cars.
In the "2021 China Automobile Retention Rate Research Report" released by J.D. Power and media, the 3-year retention rate of Japanese cars is the highest among all car series, reaching 58.3%, and the second-place German car is 5.5 percentage points lower than it.
For example, 200,000 Japanese cars can still sell for 116,600 after 3 years, and German cars can only sell 105,600, a difference of 11,000, of course, this is only the overall situation, individual models have to be counted separately.
Having said all that, what is the difference between a Japanese car and a German car in the actual daily experience?
Take the more representative Camry and Passat, the overall shape of the Camry under the TNGA architecture tends to be younger, in addition, the chassis is more resilient, the steering force is more stable, and the overall adjustment is to please the driver. However, the power output is still smooth, lack of explosive power, and do not give too much passion.
The design concept of Passat is still based on calmness, the appearance is atmospheric and high-grade, and the interior is simple and high-grade. In addition, home comfort is the main theme of Passat, including the softness of the seats and the lightness of the steering, which are more in line with the attributes of a family car. In addition, the engine's low torque performance and explosive power are better than the Camry.
There is also a car machine system has also been a weak project of Japanese cars, the screen resolution is low, the fluency is not high, the intelligent configuration is less, etc. have been complained about by many people.
Now Japanese cars are going to the road of rejuvenation, while German cars (mainly referring to Volkswagen) are somewhat conservative, and the overall design is not too subversive even if it is the new ID. series, of course, you can also understand that it is to cater to the tastes of most Chinese consumers.
As the saying goes, "no one knows Chinese better than the public", what do Chinese car owners care about most? In the rear row space, the German car is to give us an extended version before we even mention the demand.
This can be traced back to 2005, when He Wenshan, CEO of Audi China, said in an interview with The New Era of China:
"The new Audi C6 in the Chinese market is to be wider and longer, which is not available anywhere in the world, and Audi is specially designed for Chinese consumers."
However, the current Volkswagen models are too family-oriented, but lack some obvious personality. Just like you can often see the ghost fire teenager who opens the Civic to see whose seconds, but if you change the Civic to LangYi, this situation is somewhat contrary.
Of course, what I want to express is that in Japanese cars, now you can meet your own needs for sports at a more civilian price. Even if Civic and Leiling rise to mid-size cars, Accord and Camry will be more pleasing to young people than Maiten and Passat.
And this demand is placed in the Ashkenazi brand, may rise to the luxury brand, but accompanied by a series of problems such as expensive prices, expensive maintenance and so on, in front of the "budget-conscious" young people, this is not a cost-effective deal.
Nowadays, if you choose your own car in the joint venture brand, it usually becomes two situations: buying an SUV becomes buying Volkswagen; buying a car becomes buying a Japanese system.
This phenomenon, in fact, you can find the clues from the display of each 4S store. The vast majority of Japanese car 4S shops usually put the car in the most prominent position. And when you get to Volkswagen's 4S store, the most direct thing you can see is basically SUV.
Perhaps we can't analyze Japanese cars and German cars from which field alone, who has the upper hand at the moment, after all, the opponents on both sides are changing.
During the epidemic period, the Japanese mid-size cars led by Camry and Accord are indeed more eye-catching than Passat and Magotan in terms of sales in 2021, which is due to the accumulation of brand and model reputation, and it is also determined by the product strength after the replacement.
But now their opponents are no longer simply Passat and Magotan, but also the sudden emergence of a new generation of competitors, those from China's new powers.