As we all know, the Jetta has existed in a different way in the "three old cars", and Santana has undergone several renewals and generations, and still adheres to the front line.
The data shows that in January 2022, Santana sold 12,343 vehicles. Looking back at 2021, we can basically achieve an average monthly sales of about 10,000 vehicles. For a "living fossil" model that has been in the Chinese market for nearly 40 years, Santana can still be so popular with the Chinese people, which shows its success.
There are feasts all over the world, and it is said that Santana may be about to stop production. The fundamental reason is that Volkswagen has long used platforms such as MQB, MLB, MLB evo, etc., but in order to maintain the price of the people, Santana still insists on using the PQ25 platform. Although it has certain benefits, it has also led to some shortcomings that are more obvious, such as ergonomics, comfort configuration, technology configuration, etc., which are the more lacking places in Santana today. Looking at the self-owned brand models at the same price, the performance in all aspects is relatively better.
The hero also has a twilight time, Santana withdrew from the stage of history, marking the upgrading of the domestic automobile consumer market.
As mentioned above, Santana's biggest product advantage is that the leather is durable, but in the final analysis, the so-called leather is actually too low in configuration, and there is nothing to be broken at all. Although Santana's powertrain and chassis are indeed not wrong, but in the face of the current electrified, intelligent competitors, especially in the face of young consumers, Santana has no strong competitiveness, casually take a self-brand car, can be better than Santana in all aspects.
The Polo sedan based on the new MQB platform not only uses more advanced configurations, exterior styling and interior design, as well as technological configurations that are more in line with the aesthetics of current consumers.
Considering that Santana may have a period of time to officially withdraw from the market, in the future, the polo sedan will not be ruled out to be equipped with the latest EVO engine of the Volkswagen Group. As for the body size, considering that Santana is currently a full circle larger than the polo, the future polo sedan is likely to be upgraded for body length and wheelbase, and it is not surprising that the body length will reach the 4550mm-4600mm level, and the wheelbase will be 2600mm-2650mm.
In the current environment, the biggest competitors of polo sedan are Jetta and Toyota Vios, which have established independent brands, as well as Ford Ford Forris. However, in the author's opinion, the above-mentioned joint venture small/compact cars may be slightly outdated in product strength, and independent brand cars such as Changan Yidong and Geely Emgrand may be the biggest competitors.
Finally, as a "god car", Santana has witnessed the Chinese auto market from 99% dependent on imports, to gradually 50:50 joint venture, and then to Changan, Great Wall, Geely, Chery, BYD and other independent brands blooming, has fully equipped with the world's first-class car companies, brands a competition, Santana such "old predecessors" and "living fossils" absolutely indispensable, you say?
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