Combined engine | Trumpchi GS3 POWER competitiveness analysis, practical to small SUVs are still popular?

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Today's competitive analysis, let's take a look at a cost-effective home SUV Trumpchi GS3 POWER.

In the Chinese auto market, SUVs are the core market that car companies are most concerned about, but in addition to the mainstream market of 100,000-150,000 yuan, small SUV models within 100,000 yuan are still the first choice of many young people or young families. In this subdivision, Trumpchi GS3 POWER has exceeded 270,000 vehicles as a cumulative sales volume, which has also attracted much attention.

In the past few days, GS3 POWER has also made unremitting efforts, launched the 2022 model, upgraded the design and configuration of the model to a certain extent, and the price range was adjusted to 84,800-102,800 yuan, removing the manual and automatic entry-level models, and upgrading the configuration including remote control, main driving ESC, etc.

Of course, the main change is still at the design level, and its color matching has changed from the original red-gray collocation to the yellow and gray-black collocation. While continuing its family-style Lingyun wing grille, GS3 POWER has a yellow trim plate on the top floor of the grille that runs through the entire logo, becoming the finishing touch of the front face.

In addition, such a yellow design also appeared in the fenders, wheels, fog light frames and other places, this color scheme, combined with its compact body design, makes the car appear younger and more energetic than the red and gray color scheme. In particular, the hub of this yellow hot wheel is a lot more uplifting for the whole car.

Similarly, the new car also uses this yellow embellishment in the interior, and the seat edges and seat belts are yellow, and the visual effect is still relatively young. Other places are also more mainstream design, although the instrument is not a full LCD, but also adopts the popular design method of forming a continuous screen with the central control screen. And the new model has also upgraded this central control screen, increased Huawei's HiCar intelligent interconnection system, etc., and the top model has also added functions such as panoramic images, which is indeed an increase in the amount of money.

The whole body size has not changed, the length, width and height are 4350/1825/1685mm, and the wheelbase is 2560mm, which belongs to the decent level. The powertrain is still Trumpchi's 3rd generation 1.5T GTI engine, which matches the 6MT and 6AT gearboxes respectively, and the maximum power and maximum torque of the manual transmission are 120kW and 235N·m, respectively, while the automatic transmission is 124kW and 265N·m. Although the power is decent, the 6AT transmission is still quite competitive in terms of the same class of models that generally adopt 7DCT.

So, what is the competitiveness of trumpchi GS3 POWER?

Today, we will compare the Trumpchi GS3 POWER Automatic Reward Edition (93,800 yuan) with the Geely Binyue DCT Diamond Edition (96,800 yuan) to see which car is more suitable for young people.

In terms of brand, although Trumpchi has improved its brand image and market side through design innovation and strong investment in technology in the past two years, whether it is brand attractiveness or the volume of voice in the small SUV market, GS3 POWER still has a certain gap compared with Binyue.

In terms of price, the two models are in the same price range, the current newly listed GS3 POWER has not released discounts, but the current model has about 6k terminal discounts, I believe that the new model will also release certain discounts in the future to enhance its cost performance. For Binyue, GS3 POWER is a strong challenger in its 100,000 yuan market.

For small SUVs, everyone is undoubtedly most concerned about whether the space is enough. And these two cars are more standard small SUV models, GS3 POWER size will be relatively large, practical space will be better, but the wheelbase is shorter 40mm, the specific space for you to experience better, or to test drive yourself to be clear.

As a product aimed at young people, it is clear that users will also pay great attention to its performance. Among the two models, the GS3 POWER is 20kW and 30N·m ahead of the maximum power and maximum torque respectively, and the performance will be stronger. And because it uses a 6AT gearbox, it will have more advantages in reliability and compliance than Binyue's 6DCT gearbox. However, GS3 POWER because of the use of 6AT transmission transmission efficiency is lower, fuel consumption will be 0.2L/100km higher than The Bin, but overall the fuel consumption is not much different.

In terms of configuration, although the GS3 POWER is cheaper, the configuration is higher, including the front row keyless entry, LCD meter, ESC seat, LED headlights and rear air outlet, etc., the cost performance will be higher than the Binyue. However, binyue has panoramic images and a leather steering wheel, which is more friendly to motorists.

GS3 POWER is a fairly practical product, but with the intelligent upgrading of the car now, the main engine factories have infiltrated more intelligent configurations and stronger power systems in 100,000-level products, which also makes the GS3 POWER, which was launched earlier, more conservative in intelligence and design, compared to the shadow leopard, GS8 and so on in the design is more old. If Trumpchi wants to strengthen its competitiveness in the 100,000-yuan market, then GS3 POWER clearly needs a more comprehensive upgrade.

Summary: Among the 100,000 yuan products, GS3 POWER and Binyue are quite good products.

Relatively speaking, GS3 POWER has stronger practicality, not only has a more reliable power system, a more comprehensive configuration, but more importantly, the comfort of the rear passengers will be stronger, if there is a strong need for home use, then GS3 POWER will make travel more comfortable in the home scene and multi-person travel scene.

And Binyue emphasizes more on young people, more for the driver itself, more radical in design, and even optional exhaust, if it is a young person to buy their first car, mainly for their own use, then Binyue will be more suitable for you.

The annual upgrade of GS3 POWER is a more conventional upgrade, the core upgrade is the support for Huawei HiCar, and many configurations without price increases are also very sincere. If you want to buy a reliable, cost-effective, easy-to-use family car, then this car is definitely worth a try.