The vast majority of young people have a car purchase budget of about 150,000 yuan, and there are also many sports-oriented family cars in this price range. In the joint venture field, the main promotional selling point of Volkswagen Lingdu and Honda Civic is the youth movement, and with the previous generation of Honda Civic's drastic reform of the appearance, the design of Volkswagen Lingdu, which is slightly flatter than Sagitar, is inadequate. For a long time, Honda Civic has fiercely suppressed the Volkswagen Lingdu in terms of sales.
However, Honda Civic recently completed its own replacement, and the original flamboyant appearance has become much more low-key. The new Volkswagen Lingdu also met with us in the past few days, which is indeed more in line with the market appetite than the previous design. So today we will talk about how to choose between the new models of these two old sports models for consumers who want to buy a sports car of about 150,000 yuan?
Or 150,000 to buy a frameless door, the volkswagen designer this time opened the trick
The designers of SAIC Volkswagen seem to finally know where the "excitement point" of consumers is this time, and the frameless door + sneakback shape is definitely a dose of "ecstasy" for consumers at this price. What's more, in terms of design details, the ancestral design idea of "repairing the golf" was finally abandoned, and the design language of the ID series was integrated, and the downward pressure front face + through-the-line daytime running lights also made the new Lingdu return to the positioning of young people. I have to say that in the exterior design of the new Lingdu, the designers of SAIC Volkswagen have finally "opened up".
And the interior of this piece, the new Lingdu upgrade is really not small, in the dual screen design was brought to the "explosion" by Mercedes-Benz for many years, volkswagen designers finally used such a design on Lingdu. At the same time, the "huge" improvement, as well as the public designers finally abandoned their "intangible cultural heritage" mechanical gear, instead of using a good value of electronic gear, let people feel "refreshing". It can be said that the interior design of this new Lingdu is finally worthy of the "sense of premium" brought by Volkswagen's sheet metal paint.
And now the eleventh generation of Civic on the market for sale we are already familiar with, compared to the previous work has become a lot more restrained. Although the sense of high quality of the exterior interior has been greatly improved, it lacks the youthful spirit of the personality of the light sword and fast horse. Fortunately, the shape of the slipback and the ducktail still tell its athletic properties. Compared with the former "young people in the jianghu", the eleventh generation of Civic may be like a young man who has just started a family, although it hides the "youthful spirit", but it is also "calm and introverted". Compared with the design of today's "Little Accord", if I can start again, I would like to choose ten generations, and I think this is also the voice of many people.
But appearance is a matter of opinion, and I think it's even more so for people who are ready to buy a car. It's just that I personally recommend the new Lingdu, after all, at this price to buy a frameless door + slip back, it is not fragrant? Of course, if you want to buy the Civic, from the design, I recommend the ten generations of Civic HATCHBACK that is still on sale, that is what the two words of Civic in my heart should look like.
Honda's CVT is "fun" than dry dual clutch
Like the previous generation, the new Lingdu uses a 1.4T high-power engine, which is the familiar EA211, with a maximum horsepower of 150Ps and a peak torque of 250N·m. However, the most "difficult to flat" is that under such a beautiful appearance, Volkswagen still matches it with a 7-speed dry dual-clutch transmission. This also makes this happy car seem not so happy, according to the official data, the new Lingdu zero hundred acceleration time is 8.5s.
The suspension structure of this car is also "no suspense" using the structure of the front McPherson rear multi-link, according to the previous judgment of the Control Feel of the Volkswagen Sedan, the suspension support performance of the new Lingdu should be quite good. But how to look, the new Volkswagen Lingdu in the power and control feel, are like a sagittarius with beauty. If the follow-up can come to a 2.0T with a wet dual-clutch GTI version, it is really "the future can be expected". However, today's 1.4T version is still enough for most of the car purchase daily household, occasionally passionate car demand, or enough.
The eleventh generation Civic on sale today is divided into two versions of 1.5T high and low power, of which the low power is 129 horsepower, the peak torque is 180N·m, the high power is 182 horsepower, and the peak torque is 240N·m, all equipped with CVT gearbox, and its zero hundred acceleration should also be within the level of 9s. Although the CVT transmission is used, due to Honda's achievements in CVT gearbox tuning, the high-power version of the Honda Civic can indeed bring a good power output when driving intensely, and it can also take into account fuel economy when using it every day. As for the suspension of this piece, the Honda Civic still adopts the structure of the front McPherson and the rear multi-link, the overall adjustment will be softer than the Volkswagen Lingdu, and the support may not be as good as the Lingdu when cornering at high speed, but the comfort of daily driving will be better.
On the whole, the two cars should be at a level of five or five in terms of power and handling performance, but if you love to play with cars and are willing to spend money and time to "upgrade" the vehicle, the playability of the Honda Civic may be higher. Moreover, from my personal point of view, I would prefer to choose honda's tuned CVT gearbox rather than dry dual clutch.
The Civic has a long wheelbase to better meet household needs
In this price range, many people still need to take care of their families when buying a car, so let's first compare the spatial performance of the two cars. The length, width and height of the new Volkswagen Lingdu are 4784*1831*1469mm, the wheelbase is 2731mm, which belongs to the level of A+, and the length, width and height of Honda Civic are 4674*1802*1415mm, and the wheelbase is 2735mm. Although the volkswagen Lingdu body size is larger, the "space magician" Honda still brings better leg space performance, but due to the setting of the Lingdu "wide-body coupe", it is better than the Honda Civic in the horizontal space performance, that is to say, when sitting three people in the back row, the person in the middle will be more comfortable. But for a family of three, I still recommend buying the Honda Civic.
From the configuration point of view, both cars are in line with the current level of mainstream configuration level, after all, these two manufacturers are not the main children who like to pile up the configuration, but the new Lingdu has a HUD head-up display function, which is not equipped with the Honda Civic. In this area of driving assistance functions, the new Volkswagen Lingdu and Honda Civic may also be an equal level. However, since volkswagen Lingdu has not yet announced the specific configuration list, the comparison of configurations needs to wait until the configuration list comes out before explaining in detail.
summary:
Judging from the information obtained so far, the new Volkswagen Lingdu has greatly improved its sales appearance compared with the current model, so that it has the ability to compete head-on with the Honda Civic. For friends who are ready to buy a compact car with a budget of about 150,000 yuan and pursue sports personalization, they can wait until the new Lingdu is listed and make a decision after the test driving experience of the two cars. After all, although the Honda Civic is good, the frameless door of the new Lingdu is also heartwarming. But if you choose a car just for the frameless door, it is also an irrational behavior, and everything is still subject to the test drive experience.