The British royal family sits on BYD, should not be over-interpreted! But there is no denying that the "British car" is declining
In some important diplomatic reception occasions, choosing the right car is very exquisite, such as receiving members of the British Royal Family, what car will you consider using? A low-key may choose Jaguar Land Rover, and a high-profile should choose Ross Rice or Bentley directly, which has also been used as a means of transportation for the British royal family for a long time. However, during the recent visit of the British royal family member Prince and Princess to the Bahamas, the reception car turned out to be a domestic BYD.
After Prince William and Princess Kate arrived at the Bahamas Capital Airport, they got off the plane and sat on a BYD Tang EV together, and the other Wang staff were also arranged to sit in the back of the convoy, and in addition to the BYD Tang EV used by the Princess Princess, the other models in the team were BYD Han EV. This scene has been exaggerated by many domestic auto practitioners, and some BYD sales staff directly call their own cars the British royal car, which is a bit of an over-interpretation.
In fact, the appearance of this scene should not be over-interpreted, the reason why the British prince and princess sat on BYD, not because of their own initiative to arrange, but because of the Bahamas reception arrangement, BYD in the past two years in the Central and South American market has made rapid progress, especially in the field of new energy is quite influential, it just so that the Bahamas purchased a number of official cars are BYD Tang and BYD Han, so it is a natural thing to appear this scene.
If by blowing BYD into crushing Rolls-Royce Bentley is obviously inappropriate, but it is undeniable that domestic independent brands are rising now, and British cars are declining. Originally, the British domestic automobile industry was very strong, as the birthplace of the industrial revolution, before the Second World War was very influential in the automotive industry, but after the Second World War began to implement the arrogant strategy of boiling frogs in warm water, significantly increased tariffs, and the British local car brands gradually lost competitiveness.
Looking back now, the former sports brand MG has now become a SAIC MG, Rolls-Royce has long become a pawn under BMW, Bentley has been acquired by volkswagen group, Jaguar and Land Rover have been packaged into a member of India's Tata, and even the relatively niche Lotus sports car brand is now also included in the Geely Group, so although today's British cars still have British fans, but if you ask the bottom, they are basically controlled by companies outside the UK.
There is also a more embarrassing situation is that the era of new energy is coming, and the British car in the face of a strong brand of new energy such as BYD, there is indeed no technical advantage. Take the Bydy Tang and BYD Han used by the British royal family in the Bahamas this time, the price positioning of the two cars is indeed not high, but it has its own battery technology, its own electronic control strength, the exterior design language and the high-end texture of the interior are gradually leading the trend, such a model is the sun at eight or nine o'clock, not the feeling of the sunset.
For the majority of domestic car fans, there is no need to look at domestic cars at all, the gap between the fuel car era is obvious, but in the new energy era, domestic cars are absolutely possible to achieve curve overtaking, BYD once made people feel faceless, and may be a Chinese luxury car sought after by foreigners in the future.
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