Both Ford and GM are from Detroit in the United States, but their business conditions in China are two days of ice and fire. General Motors, whether it is Cadillac or Buick, has a good consumer group in the Chinese market, but Ford is not good now. In fact, soon after Ford entered the country, it reached its peak state, especially in 2005, the Fox was introduced to China, and the concept of cornering championship was introduced for the first time in the Chinese auto market, so that many consumers thought that the Fox was a very controlled hatchback model, with a solid chassis and a stable reputation for cornering, rushing to the Fox. But the problem that cannot be ignored is that Fox has little space and high fuel consumption. Even so, domestic consumers are still more tolerant of it.
Later, GM began to push the three-cylinder engine on the low-end Buick and Chevrolet models, and quickly reduced the cost, and also threw off the hat of high fuel consumption in the United States, and then Ford began to follow. But domestic consumers found that in the case of four-cylinder cars, they were not willing to choose three-cylinder models at all, so General Motors quickly switched to a four-cylinder engine, and Buick Yinglang's sales soared again, but Ford, on the other hand, was still hitting the south wall.
This has led to the sales volume of fox, which was once a sales king, in 2021 is only in the early 20,000s, there is no harm without comparison, and its competitor Honda Civic has directly sold out in China.
After the realization, Ford is ready to do a big job in 2022, first of all, the Focus will switch to a four-cylinder engine, the 1.5L and 1.5T powertrain will be installed on the new Fox car, and the gearbox will use an eight-speed automatic transmission, so that the competitiveness of the Fox will be greatly enhanced.
Once a mid-range car was also the domain of Mondeo, with an Aston Martin front face, a solid chassis and a grumpy power, making Fox very popular with young consumers. But you see which consumer is particularly willing to buy now? The powertrain of the model has become weaker, the exterior design has remained unchanged for thousands of years, and the interior is chicken ribs, which is difficult to effectively impress consumers.
No, the all-new Mondeo is coming, and so far, the overall design of the new car has been exposed. The first is that the exterior design of the new car is quite sharp, getting rid of the old feeling that we were given before, and the quality control has been strengthened. Once speaking of Mondeo models, we will use such a sentence to describe, the car is a good car, but the quality control is poor, the size of the gap is uneven. The obviously new Mondeo has been significantly upgraded, with strong power, sharp appearance, modern interior, and completely returned with a dark horse posture.
These two models are actually the former sports volume models, if the pricing is reasonable, I believe there will still be good sales, but there is a saying, the current new car market competition has been fierce enough, I don't know if consumers can still accept these two new cars?