Dear friends, welcome to the annual year-end stocktaking time. As usual, at this point in time, I have to choose my favorite 10 cars in the past 2021, which I have tried in depth. As the old rule goes, this list is completely subjective and completely out of line with any car buying recommendation. Let's get started.
10th place: Chery Tiggo 8 PLUS
In 2021, I tried Tiger 8 and Tiger 8P, and I think the most complete body should be the 2.0T Kunpeng version of Tiger 8P. Many of Chery's cars now still have a very strong European flavor chassis tuning style, which I like very much. Counting up, Chery has also insisted on this orientation for more than ten years, which is very admirable.
Ninth place: Geely Star Yue L
This car you can hardly say where it is best because it is good everywhere. At this price point, it is really great to be able to make a car almost no short board. I kept thinking when I was testing: Isn't this just a Lynk & Co? How did you hang up a gilly sign? That's also too low-key, right?
Eighth place: Tesla Model Y
Although there are many aspects of this car that I don't like, such as the interior, such as sound insulation, such as energy recovery settings, I can't be stingy without giving it a "good open" rating. Compared with many electric vehicles that feel heavy to drive, the Model Y is flexible, lightweight, agile and direct. From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, the Model Y score in my heart can be higher and higher.
Seventh place: Dongfeng Nissan e-POWER Xuanyi
The power of e-POWER is really in line with the personality of Xuanyi's car, and the NVH of the new e-POWER system performs very well, which does not weaken Xuanyi's advantage in muting in the same class. There is also a point: e-POWER Xuanyi has some small upgrades in the configuration than the pure oil version, but the price is only about 10,000 yuan, which is really sincere.
Sixth place: BYD Song PLUS DM-i
In 2021, I have tried many Song PLUS DM-i, there are borrowers, there are car owners, so many cars the performance is very stable, and the accelerated fuel consumption results made are close to the data released by the manufacturer. I like the pure comfort of this car the most, quiet, smooth and fuel-efficient, driving it is very relaxed.
Fifth place: GAC Toyota Highlander
The previous Hanlanda can be said to be that the overall is very strong, but the style is not typical of my cuisine at all. This generation of Highlander, to this level of this model, Toyota even dared to make it and Leiling, Camry become very young, it is really bold. Now this new Highlander, less of the middle way of only promises, has become more character, angular, I like.
Fourth place: Guangqi Honda type
This car is the kind of Honda taste, practical, easy to drive, and there are always some places that reflect Honda's stubbornness and persistence. Especially its manual version, it is really too Honda, try it to understand why the average person buys vegetables at home like to open Honda, while racing under the track also likes to open Honda.
Third place: SAIC Volkswagen ID.3
Volkswagen really developed this ID.3 with the idea of a traditional European hatchback, and it is no wonder that it sells so well in Europe. Although I will dislike its difficult back seat and its old car, I can't be picky about its driving experience. Looking at it, and comparing it with the Golf 8 in the north, you can deeply appreciate how outrageous the dimensionality reduction blow of electric vehicles at the driving level is.
Second place: Ford Mustang Mach-E
It's 2021, can I feel good enough to have a tram driving experience? So good that there is no need to use the reason that "the tram is heavy, so the control is cumbersome" to explain? Yes, and only this Mach-E. This car is really not afraid of you to use any oil car chassis driving standard to measure it, too cattle! The chassis team of the Edison team could consider giving another salary increase!
1st place: Mercedes-Benz S-Class W223
Trying this car at the end of 2021, I was both happy and lost. In the environment where fuel vehicles have been embattled, Mercedes-Benz still uses its own century-old accumulation to integrate the essence of the fuel vehicle era into this generation of S-class. But just like Jiang Boyo's helpless sentence "Ministers and others are about to die, why does His Majesty fall first", even if Mercedes-Benz still has the ability to develop generation after generation of excellent S-class, but the general trend of fuel vehicles has gone, will the next generation still have S-class? Or is it still called S-KLASSE?
Easter egg car: Honda Integral Type-R DC5
My first car was bought in 2005. Looking through the old photo albums, I found that my favorite thing to do at that time was to drive to Zhuhai on the day of the race, holding the card machine and shooting at the DC5 on the track. At that time, for us young people who drove a car of tens of thousands of dollars, dc5 status was even more sacred than Ferrari. Don't say open, I can sit in and smell the smell is satisfied.
After more than ten years, being able to drive this DC5 vegetarian car on the road, my mood can no longer be summed up by the word "excitement". Looking at the DC5's 8500 rpm red zone tachometer and pulling to 6000 rpm "Burst Tec", I remembered that I was driving my horse 3 at that time, in order to pursue faster acceleration data, over and over again in the 7250 rpm this oil break point "stepping point" practice. The kind of voice line of the self-priming machine, the kind of vibration, the kind of power, it is really more than ten years, the charm has not diminished at all.
Times may change, but the historical status of classic cars will not change. I very much hope that our descendants, one day in the future, will be able to drive these hall-level divine cars on the road and feel the eternal imprint that belongs to another era.