When my wife and I got married, we were driving a second-hand BYD sedan. A few years later, with a lot of money on hand, I proposed to my family that I was going to change cars, and after getting my family's consent, I began to pick up cars. Among many joint venture brands, I personally prefer Volkswagen, but I want to buy a car with a large space, so Bora and Langyi do not intend to consider, although the space of Maiteng and Passat is good, but the price is not cheap, so I finally mentioned a sagittarius positioning between Langyi and Maiten.
Due to the habit of opening manual gear, I chose a manual gear model equipped with a 1.2T engine to meet the emissions of China VI, and the price of bare cars is less than 140,000 yuan. From the time I bought the car to now, Sagitar has also been driving for 1 year. During the period, the car mainly accompanied me to commute to work, and occasionally took my family out for a walk on weekends, which was also a hard work.
If I want to talk about its advantages, I think the rear row actually ride space is spacious, the fuel consumption of 100 kilometers 5.7L is also more fuel-efficient, and I have face when I drive out; of course, there are definitely shortcomings, such as normal driving without problems, there will be some follow-up weakness when overtaking, the 6.5-inch central control screen size is general, the configuration is relatively simple, but fortunately, these deficiencies do not hinder my normal home travel.
And I have a cousin who grew up with, he likes Japanese cars, usually I often say to me "Japanese cars which are good", "the same level of models, Japanese cars are more cost-effective than German cars", etc., but I stand on the side of German cars and try to change his mind. However, from the actual situation, his idea of liking Japanese cars has not been easily changed by me, and some time ago, he told me that he had a crush on GAC Toyota Leiling among many Japanese cars and wanted me, an "old driver", to help test drive.
After arriving at the 4S store, I saw the 2022 Leiling that my cousin was looking at, and I have to say that my cousin's aesthetic is really good. Different from the sagittarius that takes the simple wind route, the Leiling shape placed in the exhibition hall will be much cooler, smooth and smooth on both sides of the lower edge, the knife and axe shaped headlights, the headlights are also integrated with the flat upper grille, Toyota's LOGO is still in the middle, plus the large mouth type lower grille, bringing me a strong visual impact. According to the sales staff, this is still the shape of The non-sports form of Leiling, the leiling of the sports form, the tension of the entire front of the car is greater, the sense of movement is stronger, and the visual impact will be greater. To be honest, such a "double shape" design is not common in the entire compact sedan market.
When I sat in the car, I saw that there were airbag logos on the steering wheel, the outside of the seat, etc., and my cousin told me that The safety of Leiling was quite hardcore, the number of airbags was more than that of Sagittarius, and the co-pilot cushion airbags were also provided. As for the Toyota Safety Sense Safety (Toyota Collision Avoidance Assist Kit) carried by Leiling, when driving normally, it will monitor the safety distance with the vehicle in front of it in real time, monitor whether the lane deviates, etc., which is equivalent to Leiling doing better than Sagittarius in terms of active and passive safety.
Seeing that my cousin had been talking about my Sagittarius shortcomings, I urgently needed to find The "inadequacy" of Leiling to prove that Japanese cars were no more than that. So, after looking around for a week, I fixed my gaze on the 9-inch central control screen, and then told my cousin that the size of the car's central control screen was similar to my Sagitar screen size, and it was not much better. However, the cousin said that Leiling's central control screen has a built-in "Fengyun Yuexiang" vehicle interconnection system, in addition to directly controlling many functions in the car, it can also remotely control the vehicle air conditioning, so that the winter and summer car is "warm in winter and cool in summer". In addition, Leiling also provides a 12.1-inch central control screen, which is indeed much larger than my Sagittarius 6.5-inch central control screen.
Before we could experience the back space, the sales staff informed us that the test drive had been arranged. And Leiling has to provide 1.5L, 185T, 1.8L HEV these three major powers, the entry-level model is equipped with a simulated 10-speed CVT transmission, they are from the TNGA architecture, is Toyota's mature and reliable power combination, and we test drive is the cousin is ready to start is the 1.8L HEV sport version.
My cousin and the test drive commissioner sat in the front row, I sat in the back row with the sales staff, it is worth mentioning that Leiling's rear leg space is also relatively generous, I am 178cm tall, sitting in the back row can also cross the legs, the actual riding space will not be smaller than Sagittarius. Not only that, as soon as I got on the car, I felt that the temperature in the car was just right, and after asking, I learned that they had turned on the air conditioner in advance on the mobile phone APP before leaving, which was really practical.
After my cousin's test drive, I also tested Lei Ling. The whole series of automatic leiling, in the process of driving, without me to step on the clutch to change gears, driving is much easier, and because we test drive is the 1.8L HEV sport version, using oil-electric hybrid, the performance seems to be stronger than my sagittarius. And I looked at the dashboard, found that the average fuel consumption of 100 kilometers displayed on the instrument is only 4L, then Leiling filled a tank of oil equivalent to running 1000KM, indeed more than my Sagitar fuel saving a lot, the most critical is that this 1.8L HEV sport version of The factory price is less than 150,000, it is also quite cost-effective, the heart is secretly envious, so that I finally found the gap between the two cars, it is no wonder that my cousin is thinking of Japanese cars.