For domestic cars, the hood is a "fig leaf", and 100 yuan can bring tens of thousands of yuan of high-grade feeling. Whether imported cars and joint venture cars are equipped with engine covers depends on who bears the cost: car companies bear the burden of reducing the allocation and not installing, and the people bear the cost of installing at a higher price, which is an open secret!
Taking Xuanyi as an example, in 2021, the domestic sales 513207 vehicles, it does not have an all-inclusive hood, the cost of a hood is 100 yuan, and this piece alone will save 51.3207 million yuan a year, which is a net profit. However, the sales volume is in front of them, and the engine stability is impeccable, so Xuanyi does not need to install the "fig leaf" of the engine cover, but let the people have the illusion, "messy is beautiful". Responded to the sentence: you cow X, put P is incense.
Why do domestic cars have hoods, while imported and joint venture cars do not?
Whether it is domestic cars, or imported or joint venture cars, aside from patriotism, they are all "profiteers"!
Car companies are just businessmen, in their eyes only to maximize the interests, there is no thick talk, about the engine cover, each playing their own small calculations, and finally being blinded is only the common people.
The domestic car installed hood is a manifestation of lack of confidence!
If nothing else, the domestic engine was thrown a street by Japan, others have stable performance, good fuel economy, and the key domestic car companies want to imitate it, which is also the key reason for the long-term dominance of Japanese cars.
Japan's engine technology, after years of development and gradually form technical barriers, they have specialized equipment, processes, systems, technicians, material formulas and upstream and downstream supporting industrial chains, is a perfect closed-loop chain, even if it is a domestic enterprise with deep pockets, buy equipment, learn processes, build systems, dig personnel, get material formulas, etc., but how to copy the upstream and downstream industrial chain of the engine?
Simply put, dismantling the Japanese engine in China and reducing the life of the assembly back to half; even if the Equipment, Processes, and Technicians of Japan are invited to the country, so that their assembly cannot return to the original level, but back to Japan, it is a simple "building block game".
It shows that imported cars and joint venture cars have confidence, especially the engine, and there is no need for a "fig leaf".
Domestic engines have progressed, but the overall internal strength is not enough, car companies can only work the face, anyway, the people do not understand the car, as long as the naked eye can see the place is arranged tall, which is more obvious in the interior and appearance of domestic cars.
Just like the ordinary almond mooncake is only a few dollars, can be changed into a tall packaging, immediately priced at thousands of yuan, the key is really someone to buy, this is the Chinese people's consumption psychology.
For domestic cars, the installation of engine covers, although it costs a hundred yuan, but the benefits in exchange are far greater than the cost, after all, the Chinese people buy things first.
The same is a messy engine compartment, domestic cars will be complained about, but imported cars, joint venture cars are "messy beauty" evaluation, so the domestic car to install the engine cover is a comprehensive factor of consideration, otherwise it will also play a reduction.
Some people ask: Why do imported cars and joint venture cars not have hoods? Is it really about cost savings?
Don't be misled, the scope of imported cars and joint venture cars is too wide, but there is a rule that is the same: high-end cars generally have engine covers, and low-end joint venture cars generally do not have engine covers.
The reason for the difference is mainly to see who is responsible for the cost of the hood, if it is a car company to bear the allocation, if the people bear the price increase, do not think that the car company is a philanthropist.
Now cars are moving towards two extremes:
High-end cars continue to increase the fancy configuration, what headlight cleaning, automatic parking, air conditioning partitioning, keyless start, etc., the configuration on the tall is to "cut leeks" and exist.
Low-end cars began to blatantly reduce the allocation, what anti-collision steel beams replaced with foam, reduced fog lights, reduced side airbags, independent suspension for non-independent suspension (broken shaft is so), reduced ESP body stability system and other safety configurations, it can be said that the lives of Chinese people do not take the lives of the Chinese seriously.
For the engine cover, it is the touchstone of high-end cars and low-end cars, whether it is retained or cancelled, it has its own purpose:
Seeing Honda's engine (pictured above), is it very messy, is it very embarrassing for people with dense phobias, this is a joint venture car.
This is Honda's consistent style, in fact, this is already neat, if you push the time to honda just entered the country, the engine compartment looks more chaotic, for the repairman is a nightmare existence.
It is also funny to say, because Honda's sales are good, resulting in a messy engine layout divided into two camps:
The square said: Honda is the bull X, the engine layout is so messy, but the performance is still a lever drop, especially the self-priming engine to the point of pure fire, do not want the engine cover is the mainstream approach.
The opposite side said: Honda's car is worth preserved and durable, if the engine compartment is a little more tidy, sales will go up the steps, after all, messy affects the people's perception.
In fact, Honda does this is to save costs, the higher the sales of the model, the more serious the reduction of the engine cover, although the cost is only 100 yuan, but hundreds of thousands of sales a year, it saves tens of millions of pure profits. For Japanese cars: the purpose of the reduction is to pull down the price to maximize the market, after all, adding an extra nut is the cost.
On the other hand, European and American cars, especially high-end models, the practice is to install a hood, people are not ashamed, after all, their engine is also difficult to imitate, this is completely to make the image of the car tall, some models not only to the engine cover, the chassis part is also equipped with a guard plate, the engine and sound insulation cotton, the purpose is to let consumers see clearly and spend more money.
In summary: most of the domestic cars have a hood, is not confident performance, in order to make the car look high-end some selling price, but also can only increase the cost, otherwise the same play to reduce the allocation.
The use of imported and joint venture vehicles for the engine cover depends entirely on who bears the cost, if it is borne by the car company, then the allocation is reduced; if it is borne by the people, then the image of the car is installed to enhance the image of the car, and it is good to sit on the starting price.
No matter which way it is, the car company is for itself, just ask: how many times a year does the owner open it?
So the advantages of installing the hood outweigh the disadvantages? Or does it do more harm than good?
First of all, the advantages:
1, increase the sense of luxury on the tall, open the hood of a mess will affect the customer's first impression. The engine is very simple for automotive engineers, but it is very complicated for the people, in order to make the engine appear mysterious, the effect of the cover is immediately different, and the people also feel a sense of value.
2, auxiliary to reduce noise, closed engine compartment, how much can block a part of the noise, but the effect is limited. Because the noise in the cockpit mainly comes from resonance, mechanical friction, body cavity airflow effect, transmission system, exhaust system, body torsional stiffness, tire noise, etc., and these only rely on the fully enclosed engine cover to reduce noise, the ability is still limited.
3, avoid a cat a dog into the hood to do "bad things", if there is no cover, dirty things to clean up is very troublesome, if there is a cover, clean up is also convenient.
And then there are the disadvantages:
1, affect the engine heat dissipation, although the engine itself has a heat dissipation device, but the plastic cover on the cover, will inevitably affect the ventilation, do not good will spontaneous combustion. It's like giving a plastic case to your phone, and if it's summer, you know how hot your phone is.
2, affecting the safety of the cockpit, if the engine is also wrapped with a guard plate, once it encounters a violent accident, the engine cannot settle naturally, it will be intimidated into the cockpit, endangering the safety of the driver and passengers.
3, affecting the fuel consumption of the car, for the owner of the car who cares about fuel consumption, adding a plastic cover will increase the weight of the car, thereby increasing the fuel consumption, of course, this impact is very small.
Write to the end:
Most of the domestic cars use covers, in order to "cover the shame" of the last resort, if you take off the cover in time, it is the time when the domestic car ushers in the outbreak.
And imported cars, joint venture cars, for the use of the hood, depends entirely on who bears the cost, because this thing is dispensable, if the installation has to be paid by the people, the car company will not bear this cost.
Friends, does your car have a hood? Do you think this thing is useful?