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Either limited by stringent emission standards or in order to reduce the cost of car manufacturing, in the past few years, the 3-cylinder engine has become a hot word in the automotive world. However, through market verification, consumers do not buy the 3-cylinder engine, for example, the previous super high sales of Yinglang because of the replacement of the 3-cylinder machine and walked off the altar.
In the face of market disapproval, some OEMs can only exchange for 4-cylinder machines, such as Yinglang and Weilang are such examples. Recently, we found that 3 more new cars will return to the 4-cylinder engine, which is definitely good news for consumers.
Geely ICON
Geely ICON was officially listed in February 2020, when it debuted as a new compact SUV of Geely, its advanced design instantly won the hearts of many young people, similar to the avant-garde shape of the concept car + a highly designed technology interior, it is indeed pleasing, combined with the price of more than 100,000, it is easy to make people head.
Blind liking always requires a return to rationality. For ICON at that time, the biggest criticism point was undoubtedly that the entire series was equipped with a 1.5T three-cylinder machine, and even the choice of 4-cylinder machine was not available, and it had to make a large number of potential consumers endure the pain and love and exercise the "one-vote veto power".
At present, Geely ICON has an average monthly sales volume of only more than 1,000 units, and in the market-large independent compact SUV market, the results are obviously not very qualified.
The good news is that the new Geely ICON, which is redesigned in the medium term, will be equipped with a 1.5T four-cylinder engine code-named BHE15-EFZ, with a maximum power of 133kW (181Ps), which is also Geely's latest 4-cylinder fuel power, and will be popular in many models in the future.
The declaration drawing of the new ICON has been exposed, in addition to replacing the 4-cylinder machine, the new car has also made some adjustments in terms of appearance details, such as optimizing the front grille, adding some bright color embellishments to the details, and so on.
Editor's comments: Geely ICON, which returned to a 4-cylinder machine, made up for its biggest shortcomings, and the sales increase was certain. No more than 2 years ago, now rookies continue, domestic car design is more and more dazzling, today's ICON design is obviously not as amazing as 2 years ago, just imagine, if 2 years ago Geely ICON was equipped with 4 cylinders to occupy the market early, presumably it will be another situation.
Ford Focus
At the peak of Fox in 12 and 13 years, not only did there be the deification of the "hatchback sedan", but also the monthly sales of hatchback + sedan Fox easily exceeded 30,000, or even more, which was a sales legend in the joint venture compact car.
However, after 18 years of replacement, the whole series was equipped with a 3-cylinder machine, so that it fell directly off the altar, and the current average monthly sales were only about 2,000 units.
In the latest issue of the declaration chart, we also saw the figure of the mid-term redesign of the new Fox. The new car adopts Ford's latest design language, the front face has a large change, and there will also be hatchbacks, sedan versions and corresponding ST Line and S EDITION versions.
Of course, the most surprising thing is that the new Focus is equipped with the same 1.5T engine as the Wing Tiger and Mondeo, and its maximum power is 130 kW, that is, 177 horsepower. However, it is uncertain whether the current 1.5L engine can be replaced by a three-cylinder engine after the redesign.
Editor's Comments: How much do consumers not want to see the three-cylinder machine? From The performance of Fox in recent years, it can be fully seen that from the peak of sales to the bottom, the culprit is undoubtedly the three-cylinder engine. Now that the 4-cylinder Fox is coming, it is indeed difficult to get back to the top without the aura of the past, but it should not be a big deal to significantly increase sales.
Chevrolet Is Cool
Chuangku listed in 14 years is not the top stream, but also gained a certain degree of attention and sales, with the addition of late competitors, Chuangku performance was flat, until June 19 completed the replacement, the whole series of 1.0T and 1.3T power, since then it has been stagnant, there is no sense of existence.
The new Chevrolet Chuangku declaration chart also appeared in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the new car has not changed much in terms of design, in addition to the regular Redline series, but also added RS suite. It is worth mentioning that the new car will be equipped with the Vehicle Event Data Recording System (EDR).
The biggest modification of the new car is the replacement of the 1.5T 4-cylinder engine, which has a maximum power of 180 horsepower, which is 15 horsepower higher than the current 1.3T engine. The new tail tag is also "335T", and speculation is to replace the previous 1.3T three-cylinder with the latest 1.5T.
Editor's comments: Chuangku currently has a low degree of attention, a weak sense of existence, and the replacement of the 4-cylinder machine is also in line with market demand, which can save some face.
Summary of the whole
The above three cars should soon be sold on the market, and the replacement of 3 cylinders with 4 cylinders will naturally make consumers excited. There are still many 3-cylinder cars on the market, and I hope they can also follow the trend and return to the 4-cylinder as soon as possible!
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