In recent years, many car companies, including BMW, GM, Volvo and so on, have spared no effort to develop three-cylinder engines with strong performance and reliability, hoping to achieve energy saving and emission reduction and reduced production costs under the premise of not sacrificing too much vehicle power. However, most Chinese consumers are not buying this, and some of the once-hot-selling cars have begun to become unpopular after replacing the three-cylinder power. To this end, some car companies have had to upgrade their poorly sold three-cylinder models. Auto Meta Universe has sorted out 5 new cars that will be released or listed this year from three-cylinder to four-cylinder power, of which the cheapest Geely New Binyue is expected to be able to buy for 80,000 yuan.
Changan Ford's new Focus
Estimated price: 120,000-160,000 yuan
From the 2019 model to the 2021 model, the Ford Focus used a three-cylinder engine throughout the series, resulting in poor sales and market heat performance. Finally, Ford's all-new Focus replaced the previous 1.5L and 1.5T three-cylinder engines with 1.5T four-cylinder engines. According to Changan Ford's new product planning, the new Focus will be released in the second quarter of this year, and the expected starting price is about 120,000 yuan.
SAIC-GM Chevrolet is newly cool
Estimated price: 120,000-140,000 yuan
Chevrolet Chuangku positioned the small SUV and continued the design of the model on sale in terms of appearance. The main change in power is that the new Chuangku has replaced the 1.5T four-cylinder engine to replace the 1.3T three-cylinder engine, while the 1.0T three-cylinder model continues to remain. Compared with the current 1.3T three-cylinder engine, the power and compliance of the new 1.5T four-cylinder engine will be significantly improved.
Geely New Binrui
Estimated price: from 85,000 yuan
Since its launch in 2018, Geely Binrui has been equipped with two power versions of the 1.0T three-cylinder engine and the 1.4T four-cylinder engine, and as a compact sedan positioned for young sports, Geely Binrui's sales performance has been tepid. Until the 2021 Geely Binrui abandoned the 1.0T three-cylinder engine, only a power version of the 1.4T four-cylinder engine was left in the car series. In 2022, Geely will be equipped with a 1.5T four-cylinder engine for Binrui, thus achieving a power layout of all four-cylinders.
Geely New Binyue
Estimated price: 80,000-120,000 yuan
When the 2019 Geely Binyue model was just launched, it was equipped with a 1.0T three-cylinder engine and a 1.5T three-cylinder engine. The power layout of the whole series of three-cylinders became a short board of this car, and Geely Automobile quickly realized this, and the 2020 Binyue abandoned the 1.0T three-cylinder engine and replaced it with a 1.4T four-cylinder engine. In 2022, Geely's new Binyue will also abandon the 1.5T three-cylinder engine code-named JLH-3G15TD and adopt a 1.5T four-cylinder engine code-named BHE15-EFZ, and Geely's new Binyue will complete the transformation from a full-line three-cylinder engine to a full-series four-cylinder engine.
Geely New ICON
Estimated price: from 105,000 yuan
Geely ICON was also a full series of three-cylinder engines at the beginning of the listing, although the jitter suppression of the 1.5T three-cylinder engine has been relatively excellent, but domestic consumers still do not buy it. This year, Geely's new ICON will deprecate the 1.5T three-cylinder engine code-named JLH-3G15TD and replace it with a 1.5T four-cylinder engine code-named BHE15-EFZ.