To be honest, the first time I saw the title of "2021 Car of the Year", I really couldn't think of a few particularly impressive cars in my head for the first time. There are many new cars released in 2021, not much can be remembered, many companies are in the difficult transition period of transformation, coupled with the impact of the epidemic, whether it is the quantity or quality of test drives, can not be compared with before. Since the quantity is small, let's dig deeper into the quality.
Pre-view reminder: This article is a completely subjective personal feeling, aimed at communicating with car enthusiasts.
1. What shocked me the most: Euler Black Cat
I'm sorry, but I started with a car with such hot eyes and such a low keyboard value to "disgust" everyone. I bought this Euler R1 in April 2021, the car was licensed in January 2020, when it landed in its early 80,000 years, I only spent 41,800 to take it home. In fact, buying this car is a very fortuitous opportunity. One day, when studying the performance of Guangdong A brand, I found that most of the niche cars in the Pearl River Delta are 20,000 more expensive than those with foreign license plates; as a person without Guangzhou blue card indicators, I need to buy a car with another 20,000 indicators. If so, why don't I spend 40,000 to buy a green-brand electric car, and then buy a performance car with a foreign license plate, which is 40,000 or even more cheaper?
The number of foreign cards is 100,000-120,000, and the Guangzhou card is 150,000
So the question is: what car can you buy for 40,000?
40,000 choices are really not much, second-hand Euler black cat, Changan Ben EV, Wuling mini ev. Changan in Guangzhou, not to mention the test drive, not even a commercial car that can be seen, pass. Wuling does not have fast charging, the lowest endurance, or double doors, completely impractical, pass. In the end, A battalion-turned-To-Mala was taken down by me.
When I actually owned a "maggot potential", I found out that this thing was really fragrant.
Because the car is cheap, whether it is scraped or left outside in the wind and sun, there is no reluctance.
Because of the small body, even if it is only 48 horsepower, the advantage of the electric motor still makes me very comfortable to shuttle in the car lineup. (Not because I want to drive fast because some people are really too slow on the road =.) =）
Because of the low electricity cost, the household pile trough once electricity 0.26 yuan, the whole vehicle 33 degrees of electricity fully charged only needs 8.5 yuan, the city has a battery life of more than 300, the average kilometer is less than 0.03 yuan, a month of 1000km is less than 40 yuan, not a better lunch expensive.
Because of the low cost of using the car, I drove more than 28,000km in 9 months, and really exerted the "scooter" scooter's transportation attribute to the extreme.
Because there is Euler as a bottom car, I can unscrupulously step on the accelerator when driving my own "performance car" with a fuel consumption of 17L/100km in the urban area, an 11L/100km high-speed fuel consumption, and a single maintenance of more than 1,000 pieces, which improves the use of fuel vehicles in a straight line.
4 doors and 4 seats with carplay can also save money pure - tool - scooter, only need more than 40,000 heads, what else do you want a bicycle?
Therefore, if you have a good charging environment, there are few long-distance travel needs of more than 100km one-way, and you already have a fuel car at home, or like me, you want to reduce the cost of using a car, then a cheap second-hand electric car is your choice.
By the way, if you have learned about the second-hand market of electric vehicles, you know that all electric second-hand car markets have risen since September 2021, and now the second-hand Euler black cat with me has risen to 49800, so everyone wants to wool as soon as possible.
The cost of 40 yuan a month and less than 500 yuan a year is amazing to me.
2. The most performance car: Hyundai Elantra N
If you count carefully, in 2021, you have really tried a lot of cars that flaunt performance: Shadow Leopard, AMG A45s, Porsche 992, BMW M Full Series, Toyota Supra, Golf GTI MK8, Lynk & Co 03+ CYAN, Lynk & Co 02hatchback. In these cars, either too expensive, or too low value for money, or the gimmick is greater than the actual. The Hyundai Elantra N, on the other hand, is a real, almost perfect, flawless performance car.
Let me ask you a question: Do you think technicians involved in vehicle dynamic development will love driving?
This seems to be a question that is asked knowingly, but the truth behind it is not heartwarming.
I've seen the technical head of a sports brand department reverse the car; I've seen a car media teacher who doesn't even have a driver's license write a test drive article that netizens like. Therefore, some cars that advertise sports do not move, and "the upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked" is a high probability, perhaps because the people who engage in it do not know what kind of performance counts as sports.
For them, the car may just be a job; but for the fans who love the car, who buy the car, the car is the whole world.
And Elantra N, is a group of people who really understand cars, know how to drive, like to drive and have invested countless efforts in it.
This level of perfect steering feel, perfect body dynamics, perfect gearbox performance, coupled with the N series APP has a lot of content, to improve the driving details of the huge help of the various data, let me understand how crazy the gang of people who make this car are obsessed with driving.
Not to mention that the Hyundai N series has received high praise in the major automotive media in Europe and the United States, and the BBC's "Top Gear" is an old arrogant petite who even chose the i20N as the car of the year. Not the performance car of the year, not the steel cannon of the year, not the imported car of the year, but the best of the year (of all cars). Moreover, the sales of Hyundai N in Germany, the hometown of GTI, the originator of steel guns, have surpassed GTI MK8, and car enthusiasts around the world are voting for Hyundai N with real money and silver.
But for the Chinese market, the modern N is still an unknown: how much influence will China VIB have on it after coming in? Will it be castrated? How much is the price set? The Hyundai N series now has five models, which ones are in? It is indeed quite difficult to spend 300,000-400,000 yuan to buy a "taxi" in the eyes of the elderly.
3. The best car for the far side: the 2021 Audi A4 allroad
I've always been quite yearning for far away, which is one of the reasons why I chose to be an automotive media. But flying is still not "grounded" enough, and I like to drive to every corner of the distance. However, there has always been a problem that has bothered me from afar: the comfort of the process. For example, a chestnut, 3 hours of far away means that at least 6 hours of going back and forth are spent in the car, and the comfort of these 6 hours directly determines my mood and attitude to the "far side". My previous "ragged", whether it is a manual fit of more than 4000 rpm when cruising at high speed 120km/h, or an MX5 that suffers from waist pain after sitting for half an hour, or a rotten civic that is the overlord of urban performance and high-speed crying daddy, is not a qualified distant travel vehicle. If you don't have a sense of my Civic high-speed noise, imagine the colleague next to you watching the video without headphones and then watching it for 6 hours. So for me, comfort largely determines whether I'm doing the goal of "traveling far away" or not.
The 2021 Audi A4 allroad is a perfect "far car". How good is the sound insulation level of this car? A picture is clear.
When we were test driving the car, the same year's A6 allroad was also present. My personal subjective feeling is that the sound insulation of A4 is superior to that of A6. In addition to sound insulation, the driving texture of the 2021 Audi A4 allroa is also very good, the flat trunk after the rear seat is flattened, it is more than enough to put an air mattress to rest, 2.0T high power with four-wheel drive, ground clearance is not low, most of the road conditions can be easily resolved, high-speed fuel consumption of 6 heads, acceleration of 6.64s, brakes 34 meters 64, hard power is very strong. It really solves a lot of the pain points of traveling in China, and it is a verit wagon.
Is it that Honda car owners will be obsessed with sound insulation when they are ready to change cars?
4. Best JDM model: Toyota Supra
I chose this title because I think jdm has a tendency to start after years of silence; and this car is simply because I haven't driven any recommended JDM this year, or really no JDM to buy for us. For the resurrection of JDM, for the cooperation between BMW and Toyota, there was a very fierce fan discussion in the first half of the year, but for me, this cooperation solved the most basic problem: first see if there is one, and then see if it works. As a person who once had a monthly salary of only 1700 in Guangzhou and had to support two people, I deeply experienced the true meaning of the phrase "living to develop". The collapse of JDM after the "Golden Age" made people think for a long time that they had fallen behind. The cooperation between Toyota and various brands has gradually seen the dawn of Japanese performance fans.
Of course, the "impure" sound has never stopped, as if only "completely" independent research and development can fulfill the wishes of the keyboard car gods. Every time I see these remarks, I laugh as if most young people can now live a wonderful life without relying on their parents; as if working with other brands has polluted the purest sacred place in his heart. Although such people may not even have a driver's license in real life.
Speaking of Supra, it's definitely a good car. BMW's chassis power is indeed good, Supra's reputation as "bending death" may be gone, in addition to the soft foot of the original suspension, Supra's charm is not worse than any BMW, its lap speed is even above the M2C. Unfortunately, this generation of Z4 does not have an M version and is well inherited on the Supra. The B58 engine also continues to carry forward the reputation of the Supra as the "king of straight lines". Yes, this engine also has high potential, accelerating on the car 2. X's B58 is quite a few. But the high price parted ways with the spirit of JDM in the past. Now in this society, the price of everything has increased, even if the pigs that "play pigs and eat tigers" are outrageously expensive.
To be honest, I still envy Toyota fans, a brand has Supra, GR Yaris, 86 three different personality performance car choice, and we Honda fans are still playing with the rags of a dozen or twenty years ago, while praying that the new Type R can enter China. But the good news is that Type R's entry into China in 2022 is basically a foregone conclusion. Coupled with the release of the Nissan Z400, is jd.
5. The most regrettable model of the year: three-cylinder X-Trail
The Nissan brand is really magical. At the earliest promotion of "Technology, Technology, Nissan", consumers generally praised Nissan's ride comfort; when Tianlai created a good reputation, Xintianlai began to take the acceleration, power, and sports routes. You said that its products are very general, Xuanyi can sell 50,000 a month; you say that its products are not bad, and three cylinders are put in the Chinese market.
Why do I say that Qijun is a pity? In the joint venture compact SUV class, X-Trail is the only model that can manually control 4WD/2WD, and it was, and it is. If you have to compare off-road capabilities in this kind of car scene, Qijun is indeed the existence of the first gear, so the first batch of test drives at that time chose to show its strong off-road ability in the desert, I really think there is no problem. But sometimes over-publicity can be counterproductive.
Most of China's car consumers' cognition and demand for cars is actually very simple: thin skin and large filling, high cost performance.
The more cylinders = the more advanced
The larger the displacement = the more vigorous
More screens = more technology
The longer the wheelbase = the more spacious
The better the brand = the richer
I would like to make a "professional" comment on the above views, and then stand on the commanding heights of the so-called "car critics" to criticize, saying that ordinary consumers understand a fart car to show themselves. But in fact, this kind of cognition captures the essence of things, in a sense, these cognitions are really right. In addition to the first point, QiJun has advantages, but on this first point, it has become the golden hoop on Sun Wukong's head (that is, I don't like to write Achilles' heel because I really don't know Much Homer's epic and don't want to pretend to understand).
I really don't understand why Nissan didn't use the 2.0L self-priming combination with the 2.0T VC-Turbo on X-Trail. The super variable engine - variable compression ratio engine that was vigorously promoted at the beginning is most suitable for QiJun. Toyota has 2.0L self-priming with 2.5L hybrid; Volkswagen has 2.0T high and low power collocation; Mazda has 2.0L and 2.5L collocation, the United States has 1.5T with 2.0T, how to you Qijun this, just think of the whole series of 1.5T "expression of sincerity"? Other places are doing well, because the choice of engine directly ruined their careers, and the most unfortunate thing is that it obviously has better options.
Now Nissan is struggling to support itself with a Xuanyi car. If the next generation of Xuanyi has another problem, then Nissan's life will not be good.
The above is my summary of 2021, in fact, the biggest feeling is that there are fewer and fewer fun cars, and more and more people playing old cars. Nowadays, new cars are moving more and more in the direction of instrumentalization, and the number of mentions about soul and fun is very small. Horsepower is getting cheaper and cheaper, and fun is getting rarer. Lotus said the emira was the last pure fuel sports car; C63 said my next generation is a 2.0T oil-electric hybrid, that era of flames and explosions, is really going to pass, and we will most likely witness this moment. If you like to play with cars in front of the screen, like to drive, now immediately open the salted fish, open the car forum, find a car that you have been thinking about since you were a child, a car that you can afford to grit your teeth, learn everything about it during the New Year' Time, and then take it home without hesitation. Even if you can't hold it for a long time in the future, believe me, the time you have it must be the happiest time you have on the road.