The Honda Ling is polarized, sharp and hybrid, but how long will its three-cylinder version live
Text/Su Jin Ji
In the Japanese genre, there is no honda that plays engine technology, but Toyota is the originator of the hybrid technology. When the two enter the domestic market at the same time, the fierceness of competition is gradually magnified. Nowadays, Toyota's hybrid technology has gradually lost its previous advantages in this saturated market, and Honda has its own hybrid technology.
Although the two have always maintained a competitive relationship, they are very similar in terms of product layout. Honda also added a hybrid to the fuel version of the model, and called it Sharp Hybrid. This means increasing people's energy availability on the same car, with one exception, and this model is the Lingpai.
Although this model also has a pure fuel version and a sharp hybrid version, people are eager for its sharp hybrid version, but they are dismissive of its pure fuel version, and this is mainly due to the engine of the model. Lingpai offers different types of engines according to the difference in energy mode of the model, with the fuel version equipped with a 1.0T turbocharged engine and the Sharp Hybrid equipped with a 1.5-liter self-priming engine.
The turbocharged engine is supposedly more powerful than the naturally aspirated engine, but the Lingpai fuel-only version of the 1.0T turbocharged engine is a three-cylinder engine, providing 122 horsepower and 173 Nm of torque in terms of power. Domestic consumer groups do not have much good feelings for the three-cylinder engine, even if it has the characteristics of fuel saving, but the congenital genetic defects lead to unstable factors in the three-cylinder engine, and the frequency of jitter in the state of idle speed and low speed is very obvious.
The Sharp Hybrid 1.5L self-priming engine, although it only provides 109 hp + 134 Nm of torque, is an in-line four-cylinder engine with better stability, and it also has a motor as a supplement, and the motor power is not low for this model, with 131 hp and 267 Nm of motor torque.
With the auxiliary role of the motor, the model not only has a more sensitive power response, but also the motor involved in the drive at low speed, coupled with the small displacement self-priming engine itself has the characteristics of low fuel consumption, which increases the excellent fuel economy for this model and reduces the user's later car maintenance burden.
Honda's sharp hybrid has higher driving quality than toyota twin engines, Honda sharp hybrid will have better smoothness, and the motor will not appear abrupt when it is preferentially involved in the drive, and then the engine has a good connection effect when it intervenes in the drive.
Coupled with the official guidance price of Lingpairui Hybrid in the range of 139,800 yuan to 169,800 yuan, the Lingpairui Hybrid version has undoubtedly become the choice of many consumer groups.
Lingpai itself is a family car positioned in the compact field, its wheelbase reservation is 2730mm, the interior space does not seem cramped, but has a generous riding range in the rear. The interior design has Honda's family characteristics, but it is not old-fashioned, at least in terms of visual effects.
The design of the model is slightly sporty at the appearance level, especially the grille part located on the front face adopts a large area contour, and the entire central mesh is coated with blackening. Although the body is a traditional compact sedan structure, the sense of symmetry is OK. The layout at the rear of the car is relatively simple, and the tail lights are the symbol design of the entire rear of the car.
summary:
Honda Lingpai's own product positioning is a family car, so it is characterized by practicality, fuel saving and comfort. Although the model uses a turbocharged engine on the fuel version, it is a three-cylinder engine. Perhaps its original intention of considering the three-cylinder engine was to save fuel, but most domestic consumer groups do not have any good feelings for the three-cylinder engine, which is doomed to its three-cylinder engine version will not have too many sales. Conversely, the Sharp Hybrid version is more popular because of its high fuel economy and reasonable pricing.