Recently, a violent cross-evaluation of "Germany, Japan, France, the United States, and South Korea Joint Venture SUVs Who is the Toughest" initiated by the mayor of the "Poisonous Car Review" on the Internet for the 200,000-yuan SUV has attracted everyone's attention on Douyin. Some netizens are addicted and think that this is the real evaluation; some netizens feel that the form is greater than the content. We can't help but wonder, is the automotive extreme challenge a false proposition, and does it really have practical reference significance for consumers?
The answer is yes. Although the general automobile horizontal evaluation has a professional interpretation, the interpretation of pure data cannot be related to the actual user interests, and it also lacks the visual perception that makes the user impress.
However, this scene gathered the United States, France, Japan, South Korea, German 200,000 yuan level SUV "big horizontal review", although the form of violence is direct, but the content covers the most important evaluation latitude of the vehicle, while the comparison method is set very cleverly, can more directly reflect the strength of the product, more importantly, the visual sense is also very explosive. It has a very important reference value for consumers in the purchase stage.
Next, it is better to go directly to the main topic and look at the "extreme test" of the automotive industry!
First of all, let's introduce the contestants, they are volkswagen Tuyue 1.4T two-wheel drive comfort version, Toyota Willanda 2.0L CVT two-wheel drive luxury, Peugeot 4008 1.8T creative version, Hyundai Touring L 1.5T premium version, Ford Ruiji 2.0T two-wheel drive yao enjoy version. The landing price of 5 cars is within 200,000. The test uses five items: load acceleration, 100 km brake distance, elk test, bump challenge, and extreme cliff rolling to simulate extreme car scenes, and evaluate the strength of these five cars with these achievements.
The first is the weight test. It's a race of power performance. Generally, we will evaluate the power of a car from the parameters, but in the actual driving experience, the power feeling is not only derived from the power parameters, but also affected by a series of factors such as body weight and tire grip. The weight test directly simulates the actual driving scene, and by adding a load-bearing device, the visual difference in power performance is strengthened, so that everyone can see at a glance.
In the test, five large iron boxes were tied to the back of each of the five vehicles, and the ground throttle was used to run 300 meters. Compared with the traditional 0-100 km acceleration test, the load-bearing drag test evaluates more than just the acceleration performance of the front section of the vehicle.
With sparks splashing, Ford Ruiji, equipped with a 2.0T+8AT powertrain, crossed the finish line first, followed by the Peugeot 4008. Ford's 2.0T engine has a maximum power of 245Ps, while the Peugeot 1.8T engine has a maximum power of 211Ps. With the imported Aisin 8AT transmission, it achieves efficient power output, and finally competes with Sharp. In contrast, Tuyue and Tusheng performed poorly, and Veranda with a 2.0+ CVT assembly was not unexpectedly at the bottom.
Subsequent 100 km brake test. The five models are used for emergency braking from a speed of 100 km/h until the brake stops. Taking into account the friction coefficient of the cement floor, the program team used 42 meters as the passing line of the braking distance. When the braking distance exceeds 42 meters, the balloons inside the car and the front gun will explode.
The first to take part in the challenge was Volkswagen Tuyue, which had the lightest body weight. I thought that the 42 meters would be easy to achieve, but Tuyue was unable to complete it because it was only equipped with entry Hankook tires. Similarly, both Ford Andy and Toyota Veranda failed. The final challenge was the Peugeot 4008 and Hyundai Tucson, with a score of 39.16 meters and 41.3 meters respectively. The reason why the Peugeot 4008 achieved a braking and stopping performance of more than 39 meters, I believe that the Michelin custom e-Tingyue tires with a price of 1,000 yuan, and the larger Size Brembo brake discs are indispensable.
Next, the horizontal review entered the more exciting elk test. As we all know, the elk test is the most used test item today, evaluating the extreme handling limit of the body in extreme situations, five cars driven by the same professional racer, at a speed of 72km/h for handling stability competition.
Although the American Ford Ruiji has the heaviest body in the group, it unexpectedly completed the obstacle avoidance with superb driving control technology, and the emergency avoidance at a high speed of 72km/h was smooth and smooth. Toyota Veranda and Tucson failed to challenge. As a Tuyue with Ashkenazi ancestry, he also knocked down the barrel in the elk test, which can't help but make people sigh. The Peugeot 4008, which claims to have a century-old track gene, did not disappoint, easily winning the 72km/h elk test.
Subsequently, the program team increased the difficulty of the test, and increased the challenge speed of the elk test to 74km/h. After increasing the difficulty of the challenge, Ford Also began to show fatigue, knocking down the cone barrel in the emergency corner, breaking through the driving limit, and finally failing the challenge. The Peugeot 4008 gives full play to the essence of the French chassis adjustment and smoothly crosses the corner.
Although the Peugeot 4008 rear suspension is a torsion beam structure, this set of torsion beam suspension adopts a deformable beam structure, which not only ensures the control response, but also ensures the structural strength and overall quality. Combined with the Peugeot 4008's smallest turning radius in its class, the Elk test wins easily.
Some people do not understand the elk test, they think more about the comfort experience in the family car scene, and care about the soft and hard performance of the chassis in the bumpy road, then the next test will interest them. The program team specially set up a competition to simulate the comfort performance of vehicles on bumpy roads. That is, driving a section of speed bumps at 50km/h, the less water spilled in the roof container and the fewer eggs in the car contents, the better the results.
It is worth noting that the number of broken eggs and the amount of water spilled are evaluated by two latitudes. The number of crushed eggs evaluates the filtration performance of the cockpit to bumps, while the amount of water sprinkled evaluates the filtration performance of the body to bumps and vibrations. It should be known that there are also rubber sleeves, springs, carpets, sound insulation cotton, etc. between the cockpit and the hull, which will affect the degree of vibration in the cockpit.
In this link, the amount of broken eggs and the amount of water spilled by Ford Sharp were the least combined, and they won again. The Peugeot 4008 and Hyundai Tucson have different emphases, with the Peugeot 4008 sprinkling less water and more egg crumbles, while the Tucson 4008 has the opposite. The two ended up tied for second place. The Veranda came in fourth, and the comfort of the Japanese car was not reflected in the ability to resist bumps. Tuyue ranked last.
Finally, the challenge moves on to the most exciting "Extreme Cliff Rolling Test". Testing was conducted between the Peugeot 4008 and Tuyue. In this link, as a SAIC Volkswagen model, Tuyue's performance is worth looking forward to, after all, Tuyue has just won a 5-star good result in the C-NCAP Crash Test of China Automobile Research Institute. This rough test, which pushed the vehicle down a rock slope with a height difference of tens of meters, simulated the realistic scene of the mountain road overturning.
The results came out, and although both cars had been hit and scaled, obvious differences could still be found. In the critical part of the A-pillar, the A-pillar of the Peugeot 4008 is in a relatively complete state, without obvious deformation, which can well ensure the living space of the passengers. In contrast, Tuyue's A-pillar has been bent. It cannot be said that Tuyue did not learn the lesson of Passat's defeat in the collision of The China Insurance Research Institute to improve the strength of the body. After all, under such a high-intensity rolling, the impact on the car body was too large. However, this also further illustrates the body strength of the Peugeot 4008. At the same time, Tuyue's tail has undergone a significant concave and has invaded the body. In addition, the doors of the Peugeot 4008 can be easily opened, which facilitates the timely evacuation of the injured. In contrast, Tuyue's car door could not be opened due to serious deformation. Why is there such a big gap between the two cars? The Peugeot 4008 has such a good performance because the body uses a one-time molded high-strength thermoformed steel, the proportion of use is as high as 74.2%, and the maximum strength reaches a staggering 1600MPa. Tuyue only uses high-strength steel with a tensile strength of 1200MPa.
Since the rolling knocked off the front bumpers of the two cars, the difference between the two anti-collision beams can be clearly seen. The Peugeot 4008 uses an aluminum alloy anti-collision beam with a "day" shape structure, which is significantly better than the steel plate used on the body of Tuyue in terms of strength, weight and structure. At this point, it can also be seen that the Peugeot brand attaches great importance to passenger safety.
As mentioned in the opening paragraph, a rough car cross-evaluation, as long as it is not more form than content, and represents the user's real car use scene, is a gold content. Just as the comparison of 5 SUVs with 200,000 yuan this time, not only attracts people to watch with interesting test methods and more explosive visual effects, but also cleverly interprets the car scene, making it easy to see the quality of the product. More importantly, through this comparison, the peugeot 4008 Chuangxiang version with an official direct price of only 167,700 yuan has become the strongest joint venture SUV with a level of 200,000 yuan.