For some car companies, only when they are hit by the market, they know that they are "wrong", and Changan Ford is like this. In particular, its Magic Car Fox, the market heat at that time was comparable to Volkswagen Golf. But now golf is still being talked about, and Fox is only left with sighs, and reality has given Fox a heavy punch.
When it comes to The Fox, you may have long forgotten this compact car that once dominated the family car market. In 2013 and 2014, Fox won the annual sales king for two consecutive years, pressing down on hot cars such as Xuanyi, Corolla, and Langyi.
All the glory ended in 2015 when the two three-cylinder engines of 1.0T/1.5T were replaced, and Fox sales began to decline, and finally fell out of the top of the sales list, and sales have since stagnated.
Suddenly woke up
The impact of the three-cylinder engine on Fox sales can be said to be a devastating blow. All along, the discussion between the three-cylinder machine and the four-cylinder machine has never been endless, you save energy and environmental protection is small, I am stable and durable, the key is still solid, you have your good, but I also have my magic, who does not accept to lose. Of course, in the actual situation, who can please consumers more, look at the sales performance at a glance.
Fox's sales since its domestic listing in 2005 have been outstanding, with monthly sales of 15,000 units stable all year round. Until the current Fox was listed in China in 2018, the monthly sales of the Fox car series suddenly plummeted from 15,000 units to about 2,000 units, and even sales in some months were difficult to break 100... The market tells you with brutal sales that the four-cylinder is the right option.
The three-cylinder machine has long been spat on and boycotted by consumers in China, and it is no longer news that Yinglang, Cruze and other family cars "turn back to the shore". Recently, Fox, which has been dormant in the compact family car market for a long time, has also returned to the four-cylinder. According to Changan Ford's new product planning, the new Focus will be released in the second quarter of this year, and the biggest attraction of the new car is nothing more than the abandonment of the three-cylinder engine and the replacement of the four-cylinder engine.
Since the four-cylinder is the focus, let's first talk about the CAF479WQ6 1.5T four-cylinder turbocharged engine. The 1.5T engine has a displacement of 1499ml, and the declaration information shows that its maximum power reaches 130kW, that is, 177 horsepower, and the transmission is expected to match the 8-speed automatic transmission.
The 1.5T engine code-named "CAF479" is actually the same model that the previous Wing Tiger and Mondeo have been equipped with, and the engine used by Fox is only different in the version number at the end. For reference, the current Mondeo CAF479WQ4 1.5T engine has a maximum horsepower of 182 hp and a peak torque of 243 Nm, and the Torque Level of the Fox is expected to be close to it.
From the model point of view, this 1.5T four-cylinder engine should be the emission optimization version of the older generation of 1.5TWQ4 and WQ5, and it is not a new technology. In the European market, the main force is still 1.3T+8AT, and the layout of the light mixing system, the technology has been very advanced. And this CAF479WQ6 is more difficult to match these new powertrains, it should have been eliminated. Now it is forced to be rebuilt in order to sell it, and it is taken out to exert the residual heat.
In other respects, given that the overseas version of the new generation of Fox has been unveiled, we have some references. In terms of appearance, according to the news, the domestic version of the model and the overseas version of the model will be the same, both are more sporty. The front of the car may remove the front fog lights on both sides of the front bumper, and the L-shaped bright silver trim will be added, and the grille will be fine-tuned. The appearance is indeed brighter than the old model, and the front face will be more angular. The rest of the exterior does not see much difference at present, and the exhaust uses a one-sided double-out design.
In terms of interior, the overseas version of the model has also been upgraded, mainly upgrading the size of the central control large screen and LCD instrument, and the size of the multimedia display screen has reached 13.2 inches. In addition, the physical buttons of the center console are reduced as a whole, and these functions are concentrated in the car system. The original rotary gear shift mechanism was changed back to the gear bar type, with more emphasis on handling.
The press failed
In fact, since the Focus sales are not good, it has been rumored to change back to the four-cylinder engine, but Ford has not made up its mind, but after seeing Buick Yinglang increase the four-cylinder engine, sales have rebounded significantly, and Ford finally can't sit still, after all, sales have fallen too badly in recent years.
Nowadays, compromise in the number of engine cylinders has become the trend pursued by car brands, when GM vigorously engaged in the three-cylinder engine in the Chinese market, and finally launched the Yinglang, Cruze and 1.5T four-cylinder engine with 1.5T four-cylinder engine Of the Maribao XL and other models, although the three-cylinder model did not leave, but it was not as loved by GM as before.
As one of the divine cars with the same name as Langyi and Xuanyi that year, Yinglang often existed in the top 5 in compact cars from 2016 to 2017, and with the switching of the three-cylinder engine, even if the terminal offers were touching, it still fell from TOP3 to 10 in the ranking of compact cars. At the beginning of 2020, the Yinglang four-cylinder model returned, and Yinglang once again became the top five sales regulars in the compact sedan, and to this day, the status is still unshakable, and the effect of "three cylinders for four cylinders" is immediate.
To be honest, I have always felt that the Focus full range of three-cylinder engines is too aggressive, if the high-end model uses a four-cylinder engine, I believe the overall sales will not be so. The domestic market is not friendly to the three-cylinder engine, and this time it is replaced by a 1.5T four-cylinder engine, which can save some sales. After all, no sales are not successful, so Ford is not wrong in this step.
Of course, touching this "minefield" of car companies, obviously more than one, Nissan X-Trail claims to spend a lot of money to develop a three-cylinder engine, but consumers just do not pay, the final result is that X-Trail sales have dropped again and again, and now Dongfeng Nissan's sales success report has no exclusive "column" about X-Gun models. And Nissan is also considered to be "dead sheep to make up for the prison", last year decided to resume production in Zhengzhou Nissan four-cylinder old Qijun, known as "Qijun Classic", in order to make up for the loss of sales.
Rather than saying that car companies take the initiative to show favor to consumers, it is more that they are helpless in the face of shrinking markets. At the beginning, the car companies that vigorously promoted the three-cylinder engine almost all pressed the new technology on the three-cylinder engine, but in order to save sales, the old four-cylinder engine was moved to the field, so those who want to "try" the three-cylinder engine must carefully consider it.
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