Today is April 1, 2022, April Fool's Day in the West. Today, Lao Hou does not talk about technology, he comes to talk to everyone about chatting and talking about cars.
First of all, let's talk about what to say about cars. Some people say that a car is not a means of transportation!
Whoever says this, you cow!
Because people who dare to say that the car is just a means of transportation, or the ignorant are fearless, or they have been shipwrecked as water.
In the past few years, the per capita disposable income of Chinese residents is more than 30,000 yuan, and the urban residents are less than 50,000 yuan, and the first-tier large cities in the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen have a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan. Chinese office workers, whose annual income exceeds 100,000, will not exceed 10%.
But what about car prices in China? The average price is more than 160,000. In other words, the vast majority of ordinary people, buying a car costs an average of three years of income. Even the most ordinary car costs a year's worth of income. Therefore, cars are definitely a luxury in China. The vast majority of families buy cars by the elderly, and even the car must be funded by the elderly. Don't lift the bar, it's a fact! Don't contradict me with an average annual salary of millions online. Lao Hou is old and sees more facts than you.
Because of this, Chinese cars not only have the natural attributes of transportation, but also have certain social attributes, such as face, identity and so on. To some extent, the car can indeed reflect a person's economic strength: the monthly salary of three thousand, give him a Mercedes-Benz he can not afford; the annual income of more than ten million, certainly will not use the Jetta to travel. The guy who says ,I don't like money, I don't have money,' the car is a multi-million Maybach, and you say how come he doesn't buy Corolla?
In fact, everyone's perception of the car is different, just like a thousand people have a thousand Hamlets. Each person's knowledge, growth experience, economic foundation, social status, etc., determine his understanding of the car. A Jetta driver can never imagine how luxurious a Rolls-Royce is, and a Rolls-Royce driver will never think that there is such a simple car as a Jetta in the world. It's like two beggars talking: "On such a cold day, the emperor must be roasting sweet potatoes around the brazier!" And the emperor was also thinking, "These people are starving to death, why don't you say they eat meat?" ”
Let's talk about what kind of car is a good car. Everyone wants to buy a good car when they buy a car, so what kind of car is a good car? For this point, everyone is divided, Mercedes-Benz is a good car, Audi is a good car, Corolla, Santana is also a good car. For different people, good cars have different standards. For me, the most suitable for you is a good car, suitable for your status, suitable for your economic strength, suitable for your use environment. Every day in the city, driving an off-road vehicle is to suffer; every day climbing mountains and off-road, Mercedes-Benz S also nests.
We ordinary people, buy an ordinary family car for transportation, what is the most important? reliability! Not being bad is the most important thing. No matter how advanced the technology is, what is the point of three days and two ends of the bad? The second is comfort, the family car must be comfortable, driving comfortable, riding comfortable. The so-called "power", "control", just think about it, really put it into practice, you will definitely regret it. As for fuel consumption, horses that can run without grazing, I have never seen them.
There are also people who want a "perfect car".
Sorry, doesn't exist! Even if you are a rich businessman, a rich family, a rich world, a rich country, a rich world, you can't buy a perfect car!
Because, the car itself is not perfect! Dynamics and economy, comfort and control, smoothness and passability, and so on, are themselves contradictory. The car is actually a product of balance, and what the automotive engineer pursues is to make the car as balanced as possible, so that he can meet the needs of more people.
There are also people who want a "car that is absolutely safe".
Yes! Caterpillar 797. He can knock out the roofs of testing institutions such as China Insurance Research Institute, China Automobile Research Institute, IIHS and so on, drive it on the road, who can knock you to death, I will pay you for your life!
It's just that you can't afford this car. A car costs ten million dollars, and there have to be dedicated roads to run.
As for the other cars, sorry, they are not safe! Don't believe it, you let it collide with the Caterpillar 797, if you can hit it, I lose.
Of course, this is raising the bar. In fact, I want to say that there is no absolutely safe car in the world. No matter how safe the car is, it is slag in front of the big truck. For our ordinary family cars, the same level of models, the safety is similar, because the cost is there. A car with a hundred thousand dollars cannot be safer than a car with two hundred thousand dollars. Buying a 1080,000 family car and spending money on safety is the IQ tax.
Talking about safety outside the model level is playing hooliganism. Corolla was five-star safe and Passat finished at the bottom. Then you let Corolla collide with Passat eighty kilometers head-on, and I'm sure Corolla will be defeated! Because they are not a class of cars. Just like the section chief of a unit is more powerful, he can't fight the most unstable section chief!
There are also people who buy a car must pay attention to the "car system", must not buy a certain series of cars, must buy a certain series of cars, just like blind dates to pay attention to constellations. Big brother, early in the morning, the Soviets have disintegrated, we have also joined the WTO, the world has long been the same, the earth is already a global village, heading west, and there is no mutual communication. Mergers and cooperation between car companies, you only have me, I only have you, there is no concept of car system. You must buy a certain series of cars, the parts on it may be all another series of cars; you must not buy a certain series of cars, it may be another car logo in another country to produce it! Therefore, buy a good car, don't be bothered by the car system.
People often ask, how are domestic cars doing now? Will you buy a domestic car?
How to say this? Let's use this analogy: you can build medium-sized trucks to graduate from elementary school, you can build heavy trucks to graduate from middle school, and you can build cars to graduate from college. Domestic cars are in the high school graduation stage! Don't judge yourself! Anyway, I will not consider buying a domestic car for the time being.
Finally, let's talk about new energy vehicles and new forces to build cars! To be honest, I see so much capital rushing to new energy vehicles, and I'm a little scared. What you see is the ups and downs of new energy vehicles, and I think of a chicken feather after the ebb tide of capital. Automobile manufacturing is a serious matter, a model of research and development cycle of at least ten years, foreign automotive engineers are mostly aristocrats or rich second generation. But now, the cats, dogs, tables, and pillars in the various tuns have all come out to build new energy vehicles, and I really don't know what kind of cars they can build! Lao Hou always believes that new energy vehicles will never be the mainstream, and can only be the auxiliary and supplement of fuel vehicles. Therefore, abandoning the research and development of fuel vehicles will eventually suffer a big loss!