The "three-cylinder curse" of the Chinese market is really not convinced, with the experience of the fiasco of X-Trail sales, Nissan is painful, first resumed the production of the old X-Jong with a four-cylinder engine, and now there is news that Nissan may replace the four-cylinder engine for the new generation of Qashqa that is about to be listed.
It is impossible to reuse the old 2.5L self-priming, according to the current information, the new generation of Qashqa will be equipped with a 1.3T four-cylinder engine after domestic production. Of course, in a short period of time, the new engine will not jump out of the stone, this 1.3T is actually a Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance and Daimler jointly developed engine, in the Mercedes-Benz A-class, GLA, GLB are equipped.
How much Chinese consumers hate the three cylinders, how miserable the sales of X-Jun, Nissan even refused to announce the sales of New Kijun last year, and the research and development cost equivalent to 19 billion RMB to create the new Kijun is so cold.
As for why Nissan prefers to take risks on such an important model, MoMo believes that one is overconfident, overestimating the appeal of the Japanese product brand and The X-Gun model; the other is the emission problem, to know that X-Gun is still using a 2.5L four-cylinder engine in North America without regulatory restrictions (the 2022 model will add a 1.5T three-cylinder engine); the third is the cost problem, although the variable compression ratio engine is very advanced, but the 1.5L VC-Turbo is the 2.0L of The New Tianlai and QX50 The VC-Turbo four-cylinder engine was reduced by one cylinder, and Nissan did not develop a small four-cylinder engine specifically for low-end models.
Does Nissan know what kind of problems the three-cylinder engine will face? Of course, I know that in order to prevent users from using the water bottle Dafa to measure jitter, Nissan added a cheating function of "opening the lid and automatically rising by 300 rpm" to The New Qijun, which makes people cry and laugh, and it is really a fool to take consumers.
Not to mention that there are too many competitors, Honda C-RV / Haoying, Toyota RAV4 / Willanda, Volkswagen Tanyue / Tiguan L, and the same price of more and more outstanding Chinese brands, either better than you, or half a pound eight two, why let consumers buy you a three-cylinder X-Trail? Just with "Kaiqijun running the desert is too fun"?
Seeing that the defeat has been decided, while the production line is still hot, Nissan quickly resumed the production of the previous generation of X-Trail, named X-Trail Glory, equipped with a 2.0-liter naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine, and the two generations of X-Trail are sold in the same hall. It is said that this name is also very intriguing, perhaps in Nissan's mind, the old model represents the glory of X-Trail.
To say that the three-cylinder curse, it is really a monopoly of all kinds of disobedience, the first is the general, Buick Yinglang 2017 did not change the four cylinder sales of 416,000 vehicles, ranked second in the sales list, only 40,000 less than the first place, the second year after the change of three cylinders sales fell directly to 266,000 vehicles, and now after the return of the 1.5L four-cylinder model, it also ushered in a small outbreak of sales.
According to Changan Ford's new product planning, the new Focus will be released in the second quarter of this year, and the new car will abandon the 1.5L self-priming and 1.5T three-cylinder engines, and the entire series will be equipped with 1.6L self-priming and 1.6T four-cylinder engines.
Even Toyota can't escape the three-cylinder curse, and Corolla and Leiling's TNGA 1.5L three-cylinder model, which should have been the most popular model in price, only accounted for about 15% of sales. Earlier, everyone thought that the 1.5L three-cylinder would replace the 1.2T four-cylinder. But sales proved it all. Fortunately, Toyota retains both, and does not have a one-size-fits-all approach like other car companies, I have to say that Toyota is still cautious.
Chinese brands are also not afraid of death, that is, Geely. After the 1.5T three-cylinder was proved to be less popular in the market in Bo Rui GE, Bo Yue Pro, and Jia Ji, it was replaced by a cheap and old 1.8T.
Even the subsequent Haoyue and other models, originally planned a 1.5T three-cylinder engine, but when it was finally listed, it preferred to wear the old hat of engine technology and only listed the 1.8T version.
There is also Emgrand GL, 1.5T and 1.0T three-cylinder launch, Geely originally planned to fully serve the three-cylinder model, the result was sold for two years, sales were surpassed by the old 1.4T four-cylinder.
Finally, there is The Star-Vietnamese, even though this 2.0T four-cylinder is nearly twenty thousand more expensive than the 1.5T on the Star-Elyse, consumers still vote for the 2.0T with their feet.
Geely now also wants to understand that the three-cylinder can not be promoted in China at all, so that when promoting the latest 2.0T engine, it is clear and clear about the shortcomings of the three-cylinder engine, and it is also clear to hit the face.
Facts have proved that the three-cylinder engine, a policy product, has never been able to become the mainstream in the terminal market. The price is not cheap, the use experience is also discounted, and the most important thing is that the psychological cut cannot be passed.
Many people say that the three-cylinder machine is done well, and the experience is good. Indeed, for example, the general 1.0T and 1.3T three-cylinder engines, the use of eccentric rotating mechanism + double mass flywheel + balance shaft + vehicle tuning to offset the imbalance of the three-cylinder structure, NVH compared to the four cylinders comparable, with the bottle vibration dafa test, the jitter is smaller than most of the four-cylinder machine.
The experience is up, the cost is also going up, and the price is not cheaper than the four cylinders. Why do consumers use their wallets to pay for the environmental protection indicators of car companies? I lost a vat, what did I get? Moreover, with the rise of the number of kilometers, the defects of the three-cylinder machine will be more obvious, mainly the deterioration of NVH caused by the aging of rubber parts, brackets and other related parts.
In fact, in the final analysis, the so-called three-cylinder curse is nothing more than the price is not in place, or the brand is not hard enough.
Cheap as Honda Lingpai, directly down 20,000, in The Honda system is a considerable discount, so less than a cylinder is nothing, the preferential money is used as compensation to consumers.
Brand hard as BMW, BMW's 1.5T is recognized as shaking, 2.0T cut a cylinder to come, standard low-cost products, the experience is rotten, consumers should not buy or buy. Because consumers are not buying mechanical qualities, but the aura of BMW.
MoMo has always had a view that at the same level of technology, four cylinders must be better than three cylinders! This is physically determined, you can't use the three-cylinder engine developed in 2022 compared to the four-cylinder engine in 2002, the technology and materials are being upgraded, the three-cylinder machine is better, and the four-cylinder machine is also better.
Or to put it another way, if the three-cylinder engine wants to achieve the same experience as the four-cylinder engine, it will definitely pay more than the four-cylinder, which is used to offset the physical deficiencies, such as the general three-cylinder machine. Just think, if GM did not take a detour and invested all its research and development into the new four-cylinder machine, wouldn't it be more bullish?
Remember The MoMo saying: as long as there are four-cylinder machines on the market, there is no need to buy a three-cylinder machine.