I have to say that the current market competition pressure in this automobile market is really too great, so no matter which brand is difficult to have the ability to strategize, take Volkswagen, how noble the previous Volkswagen was, in the eighties and nineties, a Santana to more than 200,000, converted to the current equivalent of a million-level luxury car. Because in that era, we did not have the ability to build cars independently, so cars were very rare, only rich people could have them, and the natural price was high. But now it is different, in addition to Volkswagen, we have many other joint venture brands in China, and after the strong rise of our domestic independent brands, it has further posed a threat to the joint venture car companies, so with the increase in competitiveness, the major car companies have begun to slowly compromise consumers, and they all want to upgrade to the places that consumers like. And the car I want to introduce today is like this, it is Volkswagen's ace car, now equipped with 1.5T, and Porsche with the same technology or more than 130,000, many people say that Volkswagen has finally "compromised".
And the car I want to introduce today is Volkswagen's Sagittarius, for volkswagen this big brand, it will certainly not only lay out a model in the domestic market, in this entry-level car market, Volkswagen in addition to Langyi also has Bora, Lingdu, Sagittarius, etc., and Sagittarius is an A+ level positioning, and the price and Langyi are not much different. Because sagitar space performance is good, and the shape and power of the whole vehicle are more in line with domestic demand, so the single-month sales of this car almost maintain an excellent state, in the past January, Sagitar with 26341 units of the performance ranked sixth in the sales list, the market heat is self-evident. But even so, Langyi and Sagittarius have their own shortcomings, for Langyi this car, its shortcomings are not very high, although many Chinese people like things it has, but in order to configure perfectly, you can only go up to the highest version, which makes people feel difficult to accept. But now the new Langyi is also coming, and the new Langyi should be upgraded in configuration and other aspects.
For the Sagitar car, one of the most important points is in the power, Langyi mainly has two power systems, one is a 1.5L self-priming engine, and the other is a 1.4T turbo engine, which is nothing wrong with this. However, sagitar's two dynamics are 1.2T and 1.4T, that is to say, on the premise that the space is not much larger, sagitar's 1.2T is 1.4T against the benchmark Langyi, which inevitably makes people feel less cost-effective. And as a high-level Sagitar, in the top or high match should be equipped with an engine with a larger displacement than Langyi, so that it has the right to speak. Therefore, many people are calling on volkswagen Sagittarius to be able to carry a new displacement engine, perhaps because the consumer's appeal is very loud, the new Sagitar in the original 1.2T, 1.4T on the basis of the introduction of a new 1.5T engine, so that this car compared to Langyi finally has a large level of capital, but also let the car in the power has improved.
This 1.5T engine is the EA211 1.5TEVO engine that everyone knows a little bit, and this engine has a maximum of 160 horsepower, which is about 10 horses larger than the 1.4T engine, although it seems that the data improvement is not very obvious. But the engine is equipped with a "variable-section turbine technology VTG", which can change the sectional area of the exhaust gas inlet, which can solve the problem of turbo lag, making the car smoother, smoother and more fuel-efficient when driving, and this technology has always been used in the turbo models of the Porsche 911. So in terms of engine, this car's new Sagittarius is a certain improvement, but in the gearbox do not know whether there is a change, in my personal understanding, volkswagen is still very likely to be equipped with the seven-speed dry double clutch transmission, this gearbox with this engine, I personally feel that it is still a pity, after all, the dry double clutch is really not easy to use.
And now, I will introduce the new Sagitar, how many changes have been made in the exterior and interior. The first is the front face, the front face of this car has a slight change compared to the old model, that is, on the intake grille, the old model is using a horizontal intake grille, and the new model on that basis, but also added a lot of horizontal trim in the middle of the grille, bringing it a good sense of fashion. On the side of the body, the new model is almost the same as the old model, and the design of the rear is the same, so I will not repeat these. However, in terms of body size, the new model is 4791/1801/1465mm in length, width and height, and the wheelbase is 2731mm, which is larger than the old model in terms of body size. And into the car, the improvement in interior design is very obvious, first of all, the full LCD instrument is not to say, that large size suspension display can really be regarded as a plus, combined with the through-type air outlet, the sense of high-grade and scientific and technological sense displayed is very obvious, so I personally still like this new Sagitar interior.
In general, in this era, product upgrades must be in place, otherwise it is easy to lose the initiative, in our domestic market, the public has a consumer base, because the public entered the domestic market early, and mechanical tuning is also excellent, so a large part of the Chinese people have special feelings for the public, but also believe in the public. It's just that the first two years of Volkswagen did do a very general job in terms of model configuration and design, but in the past few years, because of the pressure of opponents, Volkswagen has gradually become close to the people. Take this Volkswagen Sagittarius, the new model in the interior upgrade is obvious, like this kind of oversized suspension display if put in the past, is not dare to think, because the previous Volkswagen is very traditional and stubborn, will not design in these aspects, but now Volkswagen in order to keep their own traffic also compromised. Not only that, Sagitar's car is also equipped with the latest 1.5T, this engine can make Sagitar's car more competitive, and Volkswagen is doing this because the market pressure is too great, so this new Sagitar listing should be able to attract more people. Now I just don't know, 1.5T Sagitar pricing in how much, if there is a cost performance, it is a market advantage.