As a giant in the automotive industry, Toyota does have a lot of strength models, even if many have withdrawn from the domestic automobile market, there is still a high degree of recognition in everyone's heart, and even become a sentiment model, such as Toyota Crown, Overbearing, Land Cruiser, etc., of which, Toyota Crown has long withdrawn from the domestic car market, but its wind reviews and reputation in the country have been popular until today, and even many Crown fans look forward to the day of the "return of the king". However, the author feels that the past is the past, even if the former king comes back is no longer the past, rather than always keeping his eyes on the past, it is better to look at the current market models on sale, after all, there are many of them with the crown a grade, but more cost-effective than the crown, such as Ford's "Martin Jr." Ford Taurus, known as Ford's "Little Martin", the length of more than 5 meters, and toyota crown a grade, selling more than 200,000.
Taurus is Ford's real ace model, not only has a senior history, but also has a considerable anti-hit product strength, this car's overseas fame value is only high compared to the Accord. However, the current model on sale is its Taurus that entered the market in 2019, provided to Vignale Edition, with a pricing price of 22.89-288,900 yuan to cut into the market, such a price compared to the price of 25.08-37.48 million yuan crown, naturally is much closer to the people.
In addition to the price of the people, the car's appearance is not bad, after all, the name of "Little Martin" is not blown out. It can be seen that Taurus provides two kinds of mid-grid grilles according to different model configurations, of which the regular version continues the "Martin front face" shape of the mid-grid grille, which has a high degree of familiarity; while the Vignale Deluxe Edition designs a younger flying wing mid-mesh on the basis of the consistent grille frame, which mainly has a number of small silver wing decorations side-by-side distribution. In addition to the difference in the middle grid grid, the other parts of the front face are designed with consistency, such as the headlights located on both sides of the grille, and the lower grille of the through-banner under the front bumper, making the entire front of the car more low.
On the side, you can see a long straight, approaching through-the-waist line at a glance, as well as a straight, slender silver chrome decorative strip located under the door, combined with a lean body shape that is biased towards a low body, for a more slender visual effect. The tail, the folding corner of the trunk is slightly upturned, so that the car comes with a small ducktail, the large size of the taillights are located on both sides of the trunk, and the taillights are connected by slender silver chrome decorative strips, creating a penetrating design, and the line of sight can also see the exhaust ports of the two sides, and the sense of fashion and sport is not lacking.
Sit in the car, you can see the "T" shape of the center console, multi-functional leather steering wheel using a four-frame design, in addition to the entry-level model, are placed in front of the 10.1-inch LCD dashboard, the line of sight to the right, you can see the standard 12.8-inch large-size central control screen, the screen at a 45-degree angle vertically placed between the center console and the gearbox, just connect the center console and the gearbox control station, improve the convenience of the driver to operate the screen. In addition, the screen also has a built-in intelligent voice interaction system, which improves the sense of technology in the car and also adds driving entertainment. It is worth mentioning that the design of the central control placement of the car is exactly similar to the design of the new generation of Mercedes-Benz S-Class, which also means that the fashion and grade of the car's interior are not worse than the popular crown.
On the basis of the appearance and interior to improve the visual beauty, the space brought by the size of the car ensures the comfort of the ride, you can see that the car has 5018/1884/1506mm three-dimensional, and 2949mm wheelbase; compared to the length, width and height of 5020/1805/1480mm, the wheelbase is 2925mm Crown, through comparison, it can be found that Taurus has different degrees of advantages in width, height, wheelbase, to know that Taurus positioning is only medium-sized cars, The positioning of the crown is already a medium and large car, so it seems that Taurus does have cross-level product strength.
In terms of power, taurus is equipped with a 245-horsepower 2.0T engine and an 8AT gearbox as standard, which is powerful in the 200,000-300,000 class sedan.
By analyzing the appearance, interior, size and power of Taurus, it can be found that the comprehensive strength of the car is not bad, and the cross-level product strength it has made the car also have a certain right to speak in the medium and large car market. In addition, the car 200,000 yuan of the factory starting price, in the terminal there is a certain discount, the actual price is lower, but also to a large extent improve the competitiveness of the car, the cost performance is still good, but unfortunately Taurus is not recognized, in the past year, the highest monthly sales of only 3,000 up and down, becoming a model that can not be sold, it is indeed a pity.