After a five-year transition period, the term joint venture brand has gradually entered history – according to the provisions of the special management measures for foreign investment access, the automobile manufacturing sector has lifted the restrictions on the proportion of chinese and foreign shares in passenger car manufacturing from this year.
Although BMW has held 75% of BMW Brilliance's shares, and Dongfeng will also transfer 25% of its equity to Yueda Kia, in addition to Tesla, there has not yet been a truly wholly-owned overseas brand, so after 1/12 of 2022 has passed, look forward to what new joint venture brand cars will be worth paying attention to in the next 45 weeks.
Mass ID.Buzz
Estimated price: 300,000-350,000
To be honest, I'm not sure if Volkswagen's ID.Buzz, which will debut globally on March 9, will be introduced to China this year. However, if you look back at the sales performance of last year's ID. series, the total sales of 70,000 units by the north and south volkswagens are a good start, but if you want to realize the ideal of Desde opening the door of new energy, the Chinese market really needs to come to the drug.
ID.Buzz deserves that expectation. Although after advocating the "two-child policy" for many years, MPV is still a pseudo-proposition for domestic automobile consumption, even if a big IP like Sai Na has also played the price increase tradition badly, but Volkswagen is not Toyota. Before the ID. routine is still quite honest, if the domestic version can benchmark the Pre-price of 45,000 euros in the European market, with the retro feelings of the Volkswagen T1, even if the ID.Buzz's restoration of the concept car is basically the gap between Luo Yufeng and Lin Chiling, the sales volume is expected to be no higher than ID.4, but it will still take the lead in sitting on the leading position of the electric MPV.
After all, ID.Buzz is already the only new car I want to buy in my spending power.
SAIC Volkswagen Lingdu L
Estimated price: 150,000-190,000
When SAIC Volkswagen collected a nickname for the new Lingdu L, the "spicy steamed bun" was not allowed to ride in the voting, which reminded me of the great cause of this ultra-wide coupe that single-handedly blocked the two-way four-lane road.
Of course, this is just a prank PS picture of netizens, but the good news is that the width of the new Lingdu L is still 1831mm, even more than the current model, without losing the true color of the road bully. However, the widest posture in the compact sedan alone cannot help Lingdu, who only sold 47,000 units last year, to retrieve the 1 at the front of the number, and from the information exposed in the early stage, perhaps it positions itself as "the least like Volkswagen Volkswagen car".
At least in terms of appearance, I think there is no problem with this, the brain supply of the new Lingdu L with modern, Peugeot and other car logos is not violated, frameless doors and hatchback tailgates are also a plus. As a coupe, the new Lingdu L draws a clear line with the upcoming mid-term revamp of Sagittarius, and the more avant-garde twin screens are paired with the golf's same "Korean male" gear bar, making it look a little interesting.
The only question is, will SAIC Volkswagen install the new Lingdu L with the new 1.5T? It is said that FAW-Volkswagen is ready
FAW Toyota bZ4X
Estimated price: 350,000-450,000
Finally, instead of changing the label of the iA5, and skipping the black history of the C-HR EV, the Era Toyota Orthodox Electric Vehicle bZ4X is about to be launched, and a new round of Purity Testing of Japanese True Love Powder can be carried out.
Although Akio Toyoda's disdain for electric vehicles is written on his face, his body is still very honest, and the plan to launch seven bZ series by 2025 is based on bZ4X. The biggest advantage of this mid-size SUV of the e-TNGA pure electric platform is that it does not look Toyota, and if you change the Honda logo, it may be more in line with expectations. However, in terms of the current new energy advanced design style, bZ4X has not jumped out of the inherent thinking, perhaps only the accident car-like contrast and double eyelid stickers of the lamp eyebrows, you can also see the uninhibited side of the Japanese.
As for the rectangular steering wheel supported by steer-by-wire, it is likely that it will not appear on the domestic bZ4X, but the X-MODE four-wheel drive system built by Toyota and Subaru based on the electronic control system still allows it to retain a little off-road imagination space - if the battery provided by the Ningde era can also support the WLTC endurance of single-motor models at 500km.
At present, I can query the price of bZ4X in the UK, equivalent to about 360,000-440,000 yuan, and it is expected that the domestic version is not much different. So, in addition to the limited license areas, will there be Toyota fans who feel that the Highlander economy is not good enough, so as to choose an electric car like the bZ4X?
Dongfeng Honda Civic TYPE-R
Estimated price: 350,000-400,000
The fact that the new Civic does not have a manual version has made Dongfeng Honda in the eyes of JDM fans, being suppressed by the "hard melon" INTEGRA type, in addition to letting Acura import the "type grid king" - true - INTEGRA, it seems that the eleventh generation of Civic is difficult to earn back the reputation.
But the news of Higashimoto's introduction of TYPE-R immediately activated the enthusiasm of Honda fans, and Mrs. Cow became a little sweet again. After all, the previous US parallel import version of FK8 asking price is above 600,000, this time Dongfeng Honda although not as complete as the golf GTI localization, it is likely to be assembled in the domestic way in the CDK way, it is difficult to pull down the price of the car, but if the final price can be in line with the golf R, for those who feel that more than 300,000 GR Yaris is not expensive friends, the absolute pure hatchback manual Civic TYPE-R is naturally a value-added choice in their eyes.
Dongfeng Nissan Qashqai
Estimated price: 140,000-170,000
After a year of listing overseas, the new Qashqai is finally coming — and it's a four-cylinder engine. Although the displacement of 1.3T sounds like a three-cylinder, from the announcement information that can be queried, Dongfeng Nissan provides the new Qashqai with the four-cylinder engine code-named HR13DDT jointly developed by the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance and Mercedes, which can be equivalent to the M282 on the Mercedes-Benz A-Class, GLA and GLB.
Considering the current dilemma of the new X-Trail, Nissan's choice of this 1.3T almost allows the new Qashqai to occupy a natural advantage in ethics, and it also configures a 12V mixing system with the times, bringing good psychological expectations from the theoretical level - considering that the current Qashqai can actually sell more than 160,000 units last year, the replaced product has a new chassis platform, coupled with a sharper design and a richer electrification configuration, it is estimated that under the trend of Qijun's decline, The new Qashqai had to prop up half of the Dongfeng Nissan SUV.
GAC-Mitsubishi Outlander
Estimated price: 170,000-240,000
If attuker released at the Guangzhou Auto Show is a shell-changing version of Mitsubishi's Aion V, then the new Outlander listed this year is Nissan X-Trail in the parallel universe.
Although Mitsubishi has tried its best to maintain its dignity in appearance, the recognition of the split light group is also very high, and even some suspects of excessive force, but after entering the car, the taste of Nissan is still a bit unconcealed. Fortunately, the new Outlander still retains three rows of seats at a 2.7-meter wheelbase, allowing it to maintain a big enough difference from X-Trail.
More importantly, according to the early planning report of GAC Mitsubishi, the new Outlander not only has the 1.5T three-cylinder engine of the 4B40 series, but also uses the 2.0L four-cylinder engine of the 4J11 series on the entry-level car - although from the perspective of technical indicators, the natural suction power has no advantage, but from a psychological point of view, the new Outlander will be a better replacement than Zhengzhou Nissan's X-Trail classic.
Changan Ford Mondeo
Estimated price: 190,000-240,000
From 225,800 directly into the 200,000, the sincerity of Ford EVOS has been written on the face, but even if there is a limited capacity of the outside world, from last year's sales point of view, this crossover station wagon and SUV chaser, in the light chasing road is still full of danger.
Unique can be used as a label, but when it comes to reaching a wide audience, being more ordinarily is not a pejorative meaning. This is also the meaning of the existence of the new Mondeo. Ford, which has discontinued its sedan business in the North American market, now only needs to understand Chinese consumers, so this time Mondeo is almost a passerby version of EVOS, inheriting all its advantages in design and configuration, and the combination of 2.0T+8AT is not soft in medium-sized cars.
Everything is ready, only the price is owed. In my opinion, the amazing point of EVOS is also worth 10,000 pieces, so the starting price of the new Mondeo is set at 190,000, and it is enough to see the Accord 260TURBO Deluxe Edition and the Camry 2.0G Deluxe Edition.
Yueda Kia KX5
Estimated price: 160,000-200,000
Although the search engine jumped out of the Dongfeng Yueda Kia, but Dongfeng has run away with the sister-in-law, 29 years of marriage has become a cloud of smoke, but Yueda and Kia did not have the intention of liquidating the big sale, and even on the first day of the new year, Kia and Yueda also signed a plan to increase the capital of the new joint venture company by 900 million US dollars.
Kia's goal of selling 4 million new cars in China over the next decade can be shelved, and electric vehicles like the EV6, which have already been listed overseas, do not have an exact landing time, and the real closest to us is the new Sports — I think of Asia might call it the KX5 instead of the Lionscar.
Judging from the first version of the Munich Motor Show, the new KX5 has a more advanced design language than K5 Kaiku, and the entire sense of science and technology is also relatively high, not only with the domestic mainstream Volkswagen Tiguan L, Toyota RAV4 and other cars have a generation difference, compared to the modern Tucson is also very recognizable. So it's not hard to understand why Kia claimed to have received 80,000 orders four days after its overseas launch — it's worth noting that the KX5 sold 360,000 units last year, which is much more than the CR-V.
Of course, in the eyes of some Chinese consumers, the name Kia is the original sin, if there is no anti-hit price, I think the advantages of product strength will also be wiped out by snobbish eyes.
epilogue:
The above is just the 2022 new car focus of the driver's party joint venture brand, and then we will introduce the new cars of independent brands, luxury brands and new power brands that are worth looking forward to.
But before that, you can take a few seconds to vote for the three new cars that remain in your eyes, and you can also see whether they are in the same way as the fans of the driver's car, if there are different opinions or omissions, please leave a message to communicate.
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