With the increasingly fierce competition in the global auto market, major car companies are trying every means to grab a limited market share, and now compared to previous years, there are few new markets that can be developed, but some of them have targeted more refined market segments, using the advantages of high-level products to form a dimensionality reduction blow to the same level of models, such as the A+ and B+ products that have sprung up in the home car market in recent years.
In fact, this higher and half-level product strategy is very in line with the mainland consumers' pursuit of vehicle cost performance, after all, they can buy better-performing products at similar prices. Let's take the joint venture family car market, if you have a budget of 150,000, I believe that you can only choose the A-class family car, as for the higher level of the B-class family car, there is some lack of budget, and then the appearance of the A+ class model can do the best of both worlds, if you want to recommend a model of this level now, I think FAW Toyota launched the Asiatic Lion is a good choice.
First of all, from the price point of view, we all know that 170,000-180,000 is the starting price of the joint venture B-class family car, and about 100,000-150,000 is the price range of the joint venture A-class family car, so the price strategy of the Asiatic Lion A+ class is very interesting, just 142,800-17.98 million, if you add the current preferential margin, it is exactly between the two we said earlier. Many people will say when they see this, when buying a car, you can't bite your teeth and have a budget of more than 10,000 or 20,000? I believe everyone knows this sentence: a penny can overwhelm a hero and a good man, not to mention that this is still ten thousand or twenty thousand!
After talking about the price strategy, I believe many people are very curious about where the Asiatic lion, as an A+ class family car, is high in the end. Let's go directly from the body size that everyone is most concerned about, to know that the length of the car is more than 4.7 meters and the wheelbase is close to 2.8 meters, which is basically the body size dividing line of the A-class family car and the B-class family car, but as an A+ class Asiatic lion, it has a body size comparable to the B-class family car, which is one of the product advantages that are half a level higher than the A class family car.
Followed by the configuration performance, as a product from the TNGN-C architecture, Asiatic Lion's most hardcore performance in the configuration is the use of four-wheel independent suspension, especially the rear suspension of the E-type multi-link independent suspension, which can bring the comfort and handling of the B-class family car to the vehicle. Just as the so-called no contrast is no harm, you may wish to look at the joint venture A-class family car products, you will find that their rear suspension is mostly torsion beam type non-independent suspension, the grade gap will come out!
In addition to this hardcore configuration, the Configuration Performance of Asiatic Lion in other aspects also crushes the A-class family car, such as the L2-level intelligent driving assistance system including lane departure warning, lane keeping assist, active braking, full-speed adaptive cruise, etc., as well as intelligent technology configurations such as LCD dashboards, CarPlay/CarLife, and interior mood lights, while the top models of the A-class family car do not necessarily have these configurations, so it is the Asiatic Lion as an A+ class family car. It can be said that everything is in line with the B-class family car.
Finally, in terms of power, compared to the vast majority of A-class family cars are mostly for the use of car attributes for grocery shopping, the positioning of the asiatic lion that is half a level higher will naturally not take this road, we can see that the Asiatic lion is equipped with a very powerful 2.0L self-priming engine, which can output the maximum horsepower of 171Ps at the same time, the comprehensive 100-kilometer fuel consumption is also as low as about 5L, while having fuel economy, it also brings the strong power performance loved by young users, which is not lost to the 2.0T powertrain of the B-class family car.
Big Hero Car Talk: In fact, those who understand Toyota's TNGA architecture are clear that the product advantage of the platform is to be able to achieve cross-level competition, such as the Asian Dragon who broke the wrist with the C-class car before, and the Asiatic Lion that is now competing with B-class family cars such as Maiteng, which has shown its strong product strength and super high cost performance, so when you have a budget of about 150,000 or so and can't buy a B-class family car, you may wish to consider this very attractive and not inferior to the Asian Lion of the B-class family car!