For a long time, I thought Lincoln was going to become a brand that only sold SUVs like Land Rover, after all, Lincoln's parent company, Ford, also owned the Land Rover brand. But to be honest, when Lincoln's last car was discontinued in mainland China, I still had some regrets, after all, it is difficult to find a second brand of cars in this technology-dominated market to interpret the old-school luxury like Lincoln. Are Ford or Lincoln really willing to give up the "half of the country" of the car? With the release of the Lincoln Z, the answer is clearly no. After the release of the Lincoln Z, which positioned the mid-size sedan, we saw Lincoln's transformation in the interpretation of luxury on this car, and even said that it was a compromise of the times. With the Lincoln Z listing day approaching, we also began to pay attention to this Lincoln restart sedan product line of medium-sized sedan, in today's market has what kind of product force, today we take the popular luxury medium-sized car Audi A4L and Lincoln Z for a comparison, to see for consumers, the terminal price can be discounted by 50,000 yuan Audi A4L and pre-sale price close to lincoln Z, who is more worth buying?
Laughing Lincoln sideways? Audi has this confidence
In our traditional cognition, the definition of luxury brands is a vertical rear drive, such as Mercedes-Benz or BMW, and the Lincoln Z, like several cars released by the Lincoln brand before, still uses a horizontal front drive layout, in other words, it is a Ford Mondeo shell model from the bottom. The Audi A4L adopts its own unique longitudinal front-drive layout, and the high-end model is equipped with quattro four-wheel drive, although it cannot be called the Hull of the Volkswagen Passat, but the front-drive platform still makes many people question its luxury identity, which is why A is placed in the BBA.
From the perspective of the three major pieces of Lincoln Z, it is indeed a standard "Ford", its three major pieces and the new Mondeo can be said to be basically the same, are 2.0T + 8AT power combination, but Lincoln Z is more aggressive in power tuning, the engine power is 181kW, and the torque is the same 376N·m. In terms of suspension structure, the Lincoln Z uses the same front MacPherson rear multi-link structure as the Ford Mondeo. From the perspective of body layout and suspension structure, the Horizontal Front Drive + Front McPherson Rear Multi-Link Lincoln Z is difficult to bear the sign of the luxury brand. However, according to the previous driving experience of Lincoln Continental, the adjustment of Lincoln Z should be able to ensure the comfort of the vehicle, which is also one of Lincoln's selling points.
Audi A4L uses the Audi brand's unique longitudinal front-drive layout, and also has Audi's proud quadtro four-wheel drive system on high-end models, although this generation of quattro has shrunk compared to the original, but it still belongs to the first echelon in the world. The power combination of the Audi A4L is based on our "old acquaintance" 2.0T high-low power EA888 engine with a 7-speed wet dual-clutch transmission, Audi's power combination brings a maximum power of 140kW and 185kW, and the peak torque is 320N·m and 370N·m, respectively. Its chassis structure adopts the front and rear five-link independent suspension, which has a good guarantee for comfort and high-grade. It can be seen that audi A4L and volkswagen passat and Magotan have a relatively large difference in the three major pieces, not only the four-wheel drive version has excellent control capabilities, the front drive version of the longitudinal front-drive platform also has a good counterweight and handling under Audi's tuning, and is not like most of the front-drive vehicles like the "push head".
In summary, although the Lincoln Z series has a set of power, it is more eye-catching than the average of the Audi A4L in terms of power parameters, but in terms of control and power tuning, the Audi A4L should still have more advantages. According to lincoln and Ford's previous performance, the Lincoln Z should still be in the comfort of the vehicle.
Both fit the youthful aesthetic, but lincoln Z is too much like Mondeo
From the appearance of the vehicle design, Lincoln Z is more youthful and radical than the previous Lincoln Continent or MKZ, the overall integration of more youthful design language, if you miss lincoln continental or Lincoln MKZ retro elegance, Lincoln Z will definitely disappoint you, Lincoln Z is basically the shadow of Ford Mondeo, large area of net, press down front face and sneakback body, coupled with hidden door handles and other details, Ford and Lincoln seem to be in the "shell fine decoration" thing "not installed". But there is a saying that from the aesthetic point of view of young people, Lincoln Z's set of designs is still more pleasing.
Although the Audi A4L still inherits the family design language, but adhering to the generation of more radical evolution style than the generation, and finally in this generation of the sense of sport fully surpassed the BMW 3 Series, although it is the standard shape of the sedan, but the Audi A4L angular is very "combat". It can be said that in the matter of conforming to the aesthetics of young people, Lincoln Z and Audi A4L have done a good job, but when the Lincoln Z is far away, it is easy to be mistaken by others as Taiford Mondeo.
In terms of body size, Lincoln Z once again took out the cross-level attributes of the second-line luxury brand "do not talk about Wude", lincoln Z's length, width and height were 4982 * 1865 * 1485mm, wheelbase length of 2930mm, basically close to the size level of medium and large cars, and Audi A4L's length, width and height were 4858 * 1847 * 1439mm, wheelbase length of 2908mm, belonging to the normal level of a medium-sized car. It can be seen that in terms of driving space, the Lincoln Z will have more advantages than the Audi A4L.
Playing screen, Audi actually lost?
In terms of interior design, lincoln Z has taken a completely different path from the previous model, and its interior is more similar to the Ford Mondeo, which is a T-type center console with a penetrating integrated screen. I have to say that this kind of styling design really creates a good atmosphere of technology luxury. At the same time, Lincoln Z uses a lot of chrome decoration and leather wrapping in the car, which is also the favorite way for American brands to create a sense of luxury. It needs to be said that lincoln Z's large American sofa is really comfortable to sit on.
The Audi A4L is still using the interior design that has been replaced for about 5 years, and the floating central control screen plus the full LCD instrument panel is still relatively stunning in the year, but now it does have a hint of obsolescence. In the choice of interior materials, Audi's "fanaticism" for the sluggling process has led to its overall "defeat" compared with Lincoln Z in the creation of luxurious atmosphere.
As for the vehicle configuration, as we are familiar with, the Audi A4L entry version of "Beggar in The Beggar", Lincoln Z is "not stingy" about the decentralized configuration. Not only is the entry-level configuration "absolutely enough", the second low configuration is basically "luxurious", and it is worth saying that Lincoln Z officially promoted the intelligent voice system equipped with the new car when it was released, if the availability of this voice system after the listing is the same as the official publicity, then audi A4L may not have any "chance" in the performance of intelligent technology.
It can be seen that in the matter of stacking configuration and creating a luxurious atmosphere, Lincoln Z shows the hand of a Beautiful brand, and audi A4L is still "inferior to people, willing to bow to the wind" at this point.
summary:
Can Lincoln Z really call the Audi A4L, or is there a great chance that Lincoln will once again enter the car market to "turn over"? I think there is still an opportunity, after all, Lincoln Z has done a good job in the places where you see it, whether it is the configuration or the creation of luxury, although there is a suspicion of hardcover Mondeo, but Lincoln Z really stepped on the demand point of many people. If the price of the terminal is right, it still has a good market competitiveness. Although the Audi A4L is wrapped in the excellent car-making strength of a veteran German luxury manufacturer, compared with the "thinking change" of Lincoln Z, the Audi A4L is still the same as it was five years ago, but it still has the old can "nibble for a few more years". For consumers, if you don't pursue a better driving experience, the comfortable Lincoln Z may be worth considering.