January sales returned to the top five, more athletic than the Accord, Nissan Tianlai can not be younger?
Although more and more family consumers are choosing SUVs with more practical space, Japanese car companies still do not forget to enhance the product strength of their mid-size cars. In order to enhance the market competitiveness of products, Toyota launched the TNGA platform, Honda applied space magic to the extreme, but Nissan took a road of "learning from each other's strengths". On Nissan Tianlai's body, you can clearly see the sporty and youthful product labels, but the ride comfort is like "evaporating" and is no longer mentioned. Even though the power performance of the new Nissan Tianlai has been raised to the leading level of the same level, and it has also lost the label of driving comfort, the market performance has not been very optimistic after the listing. Until January 2022, Nissan Tianlai's sales finally returned to the top five, second only to the competitor Honda Accord, which some people said was the market performance of the recovery in sales.
In the new Nissan Tianlai product design, the sports style seems to have been integrated with the product, the front face shape still adopts the familiar V-Motion design language, large size "V" type chrome trim embellishment, supplemented by black acrylic trim plate coating, and the LED headlights on both sides of the front of the car are connected through, the layering is distinct, enriching the three-dimensional sense. In addition, the front bracket of the front of the car also adopts a sharp front lip design, which makes the visual effect sharper.
On the side of the body, the new Nissan Tianlai closes the lines and forms a dynamic suspended roof shape through the black intermittent design between the window rim and the roof, which strengthens the sporty sense of the whole car. At the same time, the new car is also equipped with two-color five-frame bright wheels, which highlight the sporty atmosphere. In the rear part of the car, the sports atmosphere is more intense, and the rear LED tail lights have become distinct after being blackened, which echoes the ducktail shape at the top of the tail box cover, plus the silver imitation diffuser decoration that surrounds the bottom of the rear, and the sports atmosphere is full.
In the interior part, the new Tianlai is more youthful and lively compared with the previous generation of products, and the same as the sports personality of the exterior design, the interior is also like a "middle-aged uncle" suddenly changed into a "seventeen or eighteen handsome guy", lean and energetic. The interior layout adopts a wrap-around cockpit design, the center console is in a T-shaped shape across the carriage, and some wood textured trim cladding designs are added to the center console and the central control armrest area, which looks like a certain sense of grade.
Also in order to open up the young consumer market, the new Tianlai adopts a flat-bottomed multi-functional steering wheel design, with exquisite steering wheel shape and a certain sense of sport. In addition, the new car is also equipped with a 7-inch LCD instrument and an 8-inch central control screen, which supports mainstream car functions such as GPS navigation, Internet of Vehicles, OTA upgrades, voice recognition control, etc. The display content is more intuitive, but the design of the UI interface is relatively monotonous, coupled with the small screen size, the creation of a scientific and technological atmosphere is indeed unsatisfactory.
In the space part, the new Tianlai is to open the "slot point" of the riders, the new car length, width and height are: 4901/1850/1447mm, wheelbase 2825mm, compared with the same level of competitor models, this size performance is decent, there is no obvious shortcomings, even in terms of body length and width, Nissan Tianlai also exceeds the benchmark Toyota Camry. However, it should be noted that in order to emphasize the characteristics of movement, Nissan Tianlai has lowered the attitude of the body structure, the body height is only 1455mm, sacrificing a certain head space, and the trunk space performance is general, so the vehicle space performance has opened up the gap with camry and Accord, and the advantage has become a disadvantage.
The new car provides two different sets of power combinations, of which the 2.0L engine matches the CVT gearbox, the maximum power is 156 horsepower, the peak torque is 197 Nm, the book parameters are not eye-catching, but the power performance is quite OK, the measured zero hundred acceleration time is 10.12 seconds, better than the Camry 2.0L version, and the fuel performance is also very good, the 100 km comprehensive road condition measured fuel consumption is 7.02L, suitable for home. In addition to the 2.0L power, the new Tianlai also has a set of 2.0T power configuration, matching the CVT transmission, the maximum power of the engine is 243 horsepower, the peak torque is 371 Nm, zero hundred acceleration takes only 7 seconds, the performance is very strong, but the fuel economy performance is average, and the fuel consumption of 100 kilometers comprehensive road conditions is 8.71L.
I thought that in the case of abundant power, the adjustment of the Nissan Tianlai in terms of sports control could also be corresponding. In fact, taking the new Tianlai 2.0T model as an example, the braking distance from 100-0km/h is 38.64 meters, and the elk test pile score is 72.8km/h, specifically, the car starts with a sense of lightness, but the acceleration is not smooth nor linear, there will be an abrupt sense of acceleration during the driving process, and the handling feeling is not friendly.
epilogue
Nowadays, Nissan Tianlai has a large discount in the terminal, compared to Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, Volkswagen Passat, Maiten, Buick Regal and other competitive models, Nissan Tianlai's selling point and "cost performance" how much to dip into the relationship. However, it is undeniable that the overall product performance of the new Nissan Tianlai is balanced, and all the data are at the mainstream level of the same level, and it is still a household "bucket car" that can take care of all aspects.