China's auto consumer market has always been a very magical place.
According to incomplete investigations, China is the car sales area that creates the most myths of car markup, and the more symbolic examples are Toyota Land Cruiser, Lexus LX series, Mercedes-Benz G-Class, etc., but looking back, the above products are at least in terms of product strength is indeed relatively complete, and there is almost no opponent at the same level to match it.
Pictured is the Mercedes-Benz G-Class
But there is a model that is also a Japanese hardcore SUV, even if the product force is quite backward, and the technology is old, it has also created a lot of mark-up myths in the domestic market, and this magical model is - Suzuki Jimney.
When it comes to Suzuki, I believe that everyone will not be unfamiliar, whether it is the initial "Topo Car" - Alto, or the late launch of the Big Dipper, Tianyu and other models, have left a strong mark in the history of the development of the mainland automobile industry. As a classic off-road model in the family, when it entered the domestic market in the early days, with its more prominent characteristics such as low price, economical and practical and strong off-road performance, it was also wildly sought after by countless off-road enthusiasts.
Pictured is the three-door version of Jimney
At the time of the launch of the new model, the price was once speculated to three or four hundred thousand, which is quite incredible for a low-end small off-road vehicle like Jimney. But the worse thing can be much more than that, with the fire of the new three-door version of the Jimney, Suzuki has launched a five-door version of the Jimney while the power parameters and technical level have not changed, and now this car has been officially released, and it is planned to be produced by Suzuki Motors' Indian subsidiary Maruti Suzuki India, which also leads to its final local price will not exceed 1 million Indian Rupees. About 85,000 yuan or so, from the price of the Indian market, we can see how unreasonable the price of Jimney in China is, is it true that Chinese consumers are stupid and have more money?
The times are developing, technology is advancing, looking at the entire automotive market, the car brands that have been standing still, in addition to Suzuki, it seems difficult to find a second one.
Compared with the ordinary version of The Jimney, the five-door version of the Jimney does seem to be forcibly elongated and added two doors, which also causes its body proportions to be more out of balance than the three-door version of the model, and it is far less exquisite in appearance and feel than the three-door version. And what is more interesting is that even after the 300mm wheelbase is extended, the body length of the five-door version of The Jimney is only 3850mm, and the wheelbase is only about 2550mm. Oh, yes, the five-door version of Jimney is the exclusive of the Indian market, which is different for the "three brothers", there is one more back row space, maybe you can pull ten more "three brothers" is not necessarily.
In terms of interior, although there are no pictures flowing out at present, Qi Panjun expects that the interior design and configuration of the five-door version of The Jimney will be consistent with the three-door version of the model, but foreign media revealed that in order to show its attention to the "three brothers", Suzuki may be equipped with a five-door version of the Jimney with a central control screen, mobile phone Interconnection, automatic headlights, front row double airbags, keyless entry and other 4 modern configurations.
Power part, according to foreign media reports, because Suzuki does not have a more technologically advanced engine for the time being, it is highly likely that the five-door version of Jimney will still use the old 1.5L four-cylinder naturally aspirated engine, with a maximum horsepower of 102Ps and a peak torque of 130N·m, and the transmission will match the 5-speed manual or 4-speed manual transmission. From the parameters and the actual performance of the three-door version of the model, this engine is very weak, and the quality of the five-door version of the Jimney will be greater than that of the three-door version, so it is expected that the power performance of the five-door version of the Jimney will be weaker than that of the three-door version. But what is certain is that the service life of this engine is quite long, even in India, where maintenance conditions are relatively poor, it will still be durable.
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At present, since the birth of the first generation of models, Jimney has developed to the fourth generation of models, and the five-door version of the model launched this time is a derivative of the fourth generation of models. However, since Suzuki has officially withdrawn from the Chinese market before, the Current Domestic Sale of Jimney is only introduced in small quantities through parallel import channels. Before the Spring Festival, Qi Panjun learned through a friend who made parallel import models that the minimum price of Jimney in Tianjin Port is currently 328,800, which can be said to be quite outrageous.
Suzuki Jimney since its birth in 1970, has gone through 52 years, its each generation, are very interesting to retain the core of the non-bearing body structure, four-wheel drive system, front and rear hard bridge, etc., it can be said that the sparrow is small but complete, but as far as the five-door version of Jimney is concerned, the hope of introducing the country is very slim, take ten thousand steps back, even if the five-door version of the Jimney comes in through parallel imports, then its price will rise with the water? All this is unknown.