For a long time, French cars always gave me a feeling of "applauding or not calling". Most people still choose Japanese, German and Chinese brands as family cars. In fact, if you want to spend less money to buy an SUV model, the French brand Citroën C3-XR is indeed a good choice, and recently there have been several friends around to inquire about the Citroën C3-XR car. Taking this opportunity, I visited a Dongfeng Citroen 4S store in Beijing and made a general understanding of the citroën C3-XR car in the terminal. At the same time, we also talk about how to choose between Citroën C3-XR and volkswagen, a popular joint venture brand, which is also a small SUV.
Citroen C3-XR is sufficient, 100,000 yuan can land?
In the Beijing Citroen 4S store we visited, a total of 39 new cars were sold last month, of which 6 were Citroën C3-XR, accounting for 15% of the total sales.
And citroen C3-XR is currently on sale only one configuration, that is, the 2021 190THP DCT version, the official guidance price is 113900 yuan, overall, the functional configuration of this model in all aspects is still relatively complete, reversing image, uphill assist, central control touch screen and navigation system, mobile phone Interconnection, voice control and other functions are equipped, the overall cost performance is really good. At the same time, the best color sold by Citroën C3-XR is white, and if you want your car to be more valuable in the used car market, choosing white is indeed a better choice.
In the 4S store, we also asked the sales about the current discount of this car, and then we will talk about it together. At present, the purchase of Citroën C3-XR is mainly divided into two ways: full/installment car purchase.
Full purchase of car: the cash discount is 30,000 yuan, the hard road cost includes the license fee (1,000 yuan), insurance cost (about 5,000 yuan) and purchase tax (7,085 yuan), comprehensive calculation, the landing price of the full purchase of the car is almost 96985 yuan. Buy a car in installments: the cash discount is 1,000 yuan more than buying a car in full, a total of 31,000 yuan, and the current installment car purchase can be reduced from financial handling fees, but it will charge interest on the loan with an annual interest rate of about 3%. If we assume that the down payment of 30% is calculated in installments of 24 installments, plus a series of hard expenses, the road cost of this car is almost 37955 yuan, and the repayment amount of each subsequent period is almost 1778 yuan, and a total of 1244 yuan of loan interest needs to be repaid in 24 months.
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On the whole, if you are recently ready to buy a Citroën C3-XR in Beijing, the situation is almost like this, there is only one configuration on sale at present, that is, the 2021 190THP DCT Zhishang Edition, from all aspects, under its price range, the overall configuration of this car is still relatively complete, it is worth recommending to buy, at the same time, if you want to sell the car in the second-hand car market can sell higher prices, choose the white car is the best. At present, buy Citroen C3-XR, the full purchase of a car is almost a discount of 30,000 yuan, installments can also be more than 1,000 yuan, but need to pay loan interest, the overall calculation of the two is almost the same, how to buy according to their own cash flow to decide on it. In addition, the current situation of this car, sales tell us that the current Citroën C3-XR car is sufficient, basically pay money to pick up the car.
So who is buying the Citroen C3-XR? According to what we know, most of them are young people with a car purchase budget of about 100,000 yuan, and the reason why they choose this car is actually quite simple, the cost performance is good, the control is accurate, and the workmanship materials are relatively good.
The road armor is 20,000 expensive, and the configuration is not as high as Citroën?
So for those consumers who budget about 100,000 yuan and want to buy a small SUV, how should they choose between the Dongfeng Citroen C3-XR and saicid Volkswagen Tujiao? At present, the automatic entry model of Tujiao is the 2022 1.5L automatic fashion version, and the current price at the terminal is about 110,000 yuan, which is more than 20,000 yuan more expensive than citroen C3-XR.
The advantage of the Citroën C3-XR is that it is not only cheaper than the Volkswagen Tour Armor, but also slightly higher in power performance and vehicle configuration. In terms of spatial performance, due to the longer wheelbase and larger body size, the Citroen C3-XR has a better spatial performance than the Volkswagen Tujiao.
The advantage of Volkswagen Tu armor is mainly that as a member of the Volkswagen brand, in terms of brand awareness and brand power, it is better than Citroen C3-XR, at the same time, Volkswagen is well versed in Chinese aesthetic design will also make it more loved by some consumers. At the same time, it is worth saying that when selling used cars, the Volkswagen Tour Armor as a popular brand will have more value preservation than the Citroën C3-XR, of course, if the Citroën C3-XR and Citroën C5 Tianyi launch an official buyback program, it will be another matter.
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Then there are some uses after the purchase of the two cars.
Citroen C3-XR maintenance cycle for 7500 km maintenance once, currently do not give free maintenance, of which the price of small maintenance is 700 yuan, every interval three times small maintenance to do a big maintenance, the price of large maintenance is almost 2500 yuan.
The first two maintenance of volkswagen tu armor is 5000 km maintenance, followed by maintenance once every 10000 km, currently no free maintenance, the car small maintenance cost is almost 350 yuan, the large maintenance cost is 2600 yuan. However, large maintenance of about 60,000 kilometers can be done once, and only small maintenance and a small number of consumables need to be replaced in the middle.
Then there is the residual value performance of the second-hand car of the two cars.
Citroen C3-XR 2015 1.6THP automatic pioneer type, which travels 95,000 kilometers with a 6-year age, was about 100,000 yuan in price that year, and now the residual value of second-hand cars is 55,000 yuan, and the retention rate is not bad.
Volkswagen, which travels 17,000 kilometers in 2 years, has a 2019 280TSI DSG Comfort Edition with a landing price of 145,000 yuan, and now the residual value of the second-hand car is 102,000 yuan.
However, because these two cars are relatively new models, the reference value of the residual value of the second-hand car is not too large.
On the whole, from the perspective of product strength, Citroën C3-XR can be regarded as a "market undervalued" car, and its product strength and cost performance are not bad. If you recently consider buying a Citroën C3-XR in Beijing, it is indeed a good choice, the current cash discount of this car can do 30,000 yuan, and the final landing price is about 100,000 yuan. Moreover, at present, the current car of this car is still relatively sufficient, if there is a demand, you can find an opportunity to go to Dongfeng Citroen's 4S store to see it recently.