I want to ask where is the gap between independent brands and joint venture cars? Many people will say that it is technology and technology, and the intuitive embodiment of testing the technology and process of a car company is quality control. Generally speaking, if it is a car within three or five years, whether it is an independent brand or a joint venture brand, there will basically be no big problem, and the poor quality of domestic cars referred to by the outside world is mainly because domestic cars will have various small problems after five years, which increases the cost of using the car.
And is the joint venture car really good at quality control? Mercedes-Benz and Toyota are definitely representatives of the joint venture car, the former is the Great Ben that the Chinese people yearn for, the latter has the reputation of "Toyota that cannot be broken", and the leather is durable is the label of Toyota, but is this really the case?
In the 2021 recall list, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota were shortlisted in the top three
According to the car recall statistics released by the State Administration for Market Regulation in 2021, a total of 44 car brands in the domestic passenger car market issued 155 recall announcements in 2021, with a total of 8733735 passenger cars recalled, an increase of 31.88% over 2020.
Among them, Mercedes-Benz recalled the largest number last year, in 2021 a total of more than 2.6 million vehicles were recalled, involving a lot of models, including A-class, B-class, C-class, E-class, S-class, GLA, GLB, GLC, GLE, GLS, EQC and almost all of Mercedes-Benz's models, but last year's recall was not an oil leak, mostly because of the problem of communication module software, which is also a progress for Mercedes-Benz, after all, it does not leak oil now.
Wuling is second only to Mercedes-Benz, and has recalled 1456677 vehicles in 2021, and the reason for the recall is that the spool of the engine crankcase forced ventilation valve is insufficient in wear resistance, which may cause damage to the engine in extreme cases and there is an unreasonable emission risk.
In third place is Toyota, which is unanimously believed to be not bad, with a cumulative recall of 1.285 million vehicles in 2021. In the past year, Toyota had four large-scale recalls, the most influential of which was in December, recalling 900,000 vehicles in one go, involving models including the Camry, Asian Dragon, Willanda, RAV4 Rongfang and other best-selling models, even Lexus, which is known for quality control.
Mercedes-Benz and Toyota, as representatives of the quality of joint venture car companies, have recalled millions of vehicles in 2021 due to quality problems, making people have to wonder, is the quality control of joint venture cars really better than that of independent brands?
It is worth mentioning that among the 8733735 vehicles recalled last year, independent brands only accounted for 1989023 of them, accounting for 22.77% of the total recall. If Wuling is removed, all independent brands only recalled more than 500,000 vehicles last year, which is not as good as a fraction of Mercedes-Benz.
In the top ten of complaints in 2021, domestic goods accounted for only two seats
In addition to the recall, we can also find that the complaints in the car quality network can also be found that the independent brand does better than the joint venture brand. In the top 10 of the 2021 car quality network complaint ranking, only the Great Wall Euler Good Cat and Trumpchi GS4 are listed, and the remaining 8 models are from the joint venture brand, and these joint venture cars are all well-known best-selling models. In the top 20 of the complaint list, only 4 models are independent brands, and the fault complaints of joint venture cars are much higher than those of domestic cars.
From the perspective of the content of the complaint, the reason why the Great Wall Euler Good Cat "won the championship" in the 2021 complaint ranking is mainly because of the suspected fraud problem, which must be severely reprimanded, but then again, this does not involve quality problems. Volkswagen and Japanese car rankings are still some of the clichéd engine and transmission problems, which have not been solved for so many years, and will not be solved from the trend point of view.
It is worth mentioning that the car quality network does not reflect the specific situation, after all, for users, if they are not cornered, who is willing to complain on the car quality network? For some quality problems that have been solved, more people will not complain on the car quality network, that is, the actual value is much greater than the complaint value of the car quality network.
Toyota is no longer the Toyota it once was
Once Toyota has always had a craftsman's heart and strict requirements for quality control, and it is precisely because of this that Toyota can become a global auto giant on par with the Volkswagen Group. But now Toyota, has been blinded by interests, at the end of last year, Toyota once fell into the vortex of inferior parts, causing a high degree of public concern.
The reason is that Toyota publicly announced last year that it would start production of defective parts from suppliers. It also called it a background reason, aiming to alleviate problems such as chip shortages and rising raw material prices in order to achieve a predetermined production rate. To put it bluntly, Toyota wants to use inferior parts to reduce production costs and thus earn more profits.
In doing so, Toyota is undoubtedly smashing its own signboard, although Toyota claims that inferior parts do not cause safety problems and do not affect the performance of the car. In response to this problem, domestic netizens also joked: "Buy a car into a blind box, whether the car is good or not, it all depends on luck", the so-called craftsman spirit has become a joke.
Looking at the entire domestic automobile market, the only one who dares to openly admit to using inferior parts to reduce production costs is Toyota, not even Mercedes-Benz. Isn't Toyota's behavior worthy of deep consideration by the Chinese people? If it were in Europe, in North America, or on japan, would Toyota dare to do so? Is it not that some domestic consumers are overly superstitious about Toyota? This is true of Toyota, and it is also true of Mercedes-Benz.
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This is not to say that buying a domestic car is patriotic, and buying a joint venture car is a manifestation of unpatrioticism. What the author wants to express is that if we want to take off the past colored glasses to see domestic cars, we must face up to the progress of our own brands, and the joint venture car is not so indispensable, do not be overly superstitious about the joint venture car. Of course, not every independent brand has a reassuring technical process, like those independent brands that only know how to make money lying on joint venture cars, there is no need to support it.
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