Speaking of the three-cylinder engine, it can be said that it is a product of a special period, that is, many joint venture brands and independent brands are eager to achieve lower emissions without losing power. In fact, in the past few years, many manufacturers have used product sales to prove that the three-cylinder engine in the domestic market "water and soil", many manufacturers for some classic or best-selling models after the replacement of three-cylinder engines, soon found that sales have declined significantly, such as the original Buick Yinglang; and abandon the three-cylinder engine, after the reuse of the four-cylinder engine, the sales of some models have rebounded to varying degrees. Therefore, in the domestic pure fuel vehicle market, the three-cylinder engine has almost been defined as a relatively failed technology, and the use of three-cylinder engines on pure fuel vehicle products may face very large market challenges.
A few days ago, the new Ford Focus declaration information was disclosed, the information shows that the new Focus uses a Chinese exclusive design, and most importantly, replaced a 1.5T four-cylinder engine with a maximum power of 130kW. For Ford, it can be said that it is an hindsight, or even a step to make up for it, and it is not too late. The reason is very simple, before the previous generation of domestic Fox used a three-cylinder engine, Fox is a very competitive model of Changan Ford, basically in the top position of Changan Ford's sales list for a long time, but with the replacement of the three-cylinder engine, Fox's position in the domestic compact car market has plummeted, and now it has lost its presence in the market segment. We believe that after the new Focus is equipped with a four-cylinder engine, the market performance of this new car will already have a certain degree of improvement, if the desire is more beautiful, Changan Ford's re-emergence may also begin with the change of this car.
Almost in the same time period, geely automobile's new ICON related declaration information has also been disclosed, the declaration information shows that the new Geely icon for the design of a small optimization, and will be equipped with a 1.5T four-cylinder engine, the maximum horsepower of 181Ps. Geely ICON since the listing, very topical appearance and interior design has attracted a lot of discussion, there is no doubt that this car is successful at the design level, but this model is equipped with a three-cylinder engine, to a large extent, dissuaded some consumers, and affected the car's sustained and stable performance in terms of sales, and now the new model is replaced by a four-cylinder engine, which can be considered a positive internal improvement, for this car, it is also a reinforcement.
With the three-cylinder "teammates" successively "anti-water", now more embarrassing may be Nissan's new X-Trail. In fact, when the new X-Trail domestic project was established, pre-sold, and listed, the three-cylinder engine in the domestic market environment is already quite "bad", consumers do not recognize the three-cylinder engine, manufacturers have successively replaced some models of three-cylinder engines with four-cylinder engines, but Nissan is still obstinate, a 1.5T three-cylinder engine installed with a new X-Trail, a compact SUV model that performs well in appearance, interior and configuration. In our opinion, Nissan still insists on using the three-cylinder engine in the case of complete unpopularity, either because Nissan's lack of sensitivity to the market, or Nissan thinks that with Nissan's brand influence and X-Gun's product influence, it can completely reverse people's disapproval of the three-cylinder engine, after all, before replacing the three-cylinder machine, X-Trail is one of the most popular products in the domestic joint venture compact SUV market, and it is common for monthly sales to rank in the top ten.
But the market still gave Nissan and X-Trail a heavy blow, after the three-cylinder X-Trail was listed, the sales performance compared to the four-cylinder model period seriously declined, the sales volume in August-December 2021 were 4035 vehicles, 4021 vehicles, 4010 vehicles, 4001 vehicles, 2808 vehicles, it can be said that it is quite sluggish, and even in the mainstream joint venture brand compact SUV market has lost its sense of existence, which may be an unbearable result for Nissan. So the old four-cylinder Qijun was resumed and named glorious, in our opinion, this way, more shows nissan's embarrassment. Perhaps Nissan has realized its inability to do anything, but after all, the three-cylinder X-Trail has only been on the market for less than a year, and now it is rushing back to the new four-cylinder engine, which undoubtedly proves that the previous decision was a major mistake and difficult to account for at all levels internally. Moreover, for these Japanese brands, the development and adaptation of a car and an engine is not such a simple thing, and it is certainly impossible to complete the switch within a year, which may be the most embarrassing place for Nissan and X-Trail.
Therefore, with the new models of Fox and Geely ICON replaced with four-cylinder engines, the number of three-cylinder models in the field of fuel vehicles has once again decreased, and most of the other three-cylinder models are no longer the main force. So in this case, the equivalent of the three-cylinder X-Jun has become a lone soldier, in a short period of time for the new model to replace the four-cylinder machine is not much hope, the sales itself is very ugly, which is the new X-Jun this "car age" is very short-lived products, is really a little too embarrassing.