For most consumers, buying a car is an important expense, coupled with the mixed fish in the market, there are many models, it is natural to choose carefully after comprehensive comparison. However, due to different personal preferences, biased vehicle cognitive depth, and different actual car needs, people tend to have a strong subjective color when choosing a car, rather than relying on a hard indicator to judge.
But in any case, the most important reference for choosing a car is the safety of the vehicle. Among them, C-NCAP is a test and evaluation project for the safety performance of new cars officially launched by China Automobile Center in 2006, which has been evaluated for most models listed in China, and its crash test results are the reference standards for many people before buying a car.
A few days ago, the China Automobile Center released the "Blue Book of China Automobile Evaluation (2018~2021)", which mentioned that Chinese automobiles have shown five major trends in recent years. If you're holding a coin to buy, check out the following before you buy a car.
Chinese brands shorten the gap with joint venture brands, and they don't have to stare at joint venture cars when buying a car!
From "four wheels + big sofa" to now in the new energy track to achieve cornering overtaking, in just over ten years, the overall strength is not a star and a half, and the brand influence has also undergone earth-shaking changes. The concept of buying a car for a car must buy a joint venture brand is gradually changing, and Chinese brands have been recognized by more and more consumers under the blessing of product strength and product reputation. According to the relevant data released by the Blue Book, among the models that have received five-star evaluations, the proportion of China's own brands has increased from 12% to 76% in 12 years, and the overall trend has increased steadily. At the same time, many independent brands dare to send new cars to C-NCAP for crash testing, which also shows the brand's confidence in its own strength.
The monthly/annual sales list also intuitively shows that the SUV field has Haval H6, Changan CS75 and other representative models, the MPV field has Trumpchi M8, Wuling Capgemini and other models on the list, and the car field has BYD Qin, Geely Emgrand and other models. Although there is still a gap between the overall proportion of independent models and joint venture models, it is an indisputable fact that the brand gap has narrowed.
Therefore, buying a car to see the brand is not absolute. It is advisable to compare the autonomous model with the joint venture model in an all-round way, the same price point, the same level of model, the independent model in terms of safety, configuration richness, styling design, power performance and other fields may not be inferior to the joint venture car. Just like the decline of Korean cars and the rise of independent cars, it is a strong proof that Chinese brands have narrowed the gap with joint venture brands.
The active safety performance of new energy vehicles is better
With the advancement of technology, China has taken the initiative in the process of developing smart cars, which has also affected the research and development direction of joint venture brands. Especially in the field of new energy vehicles, intelligence is almost a must for electric vehicles, and if a car does not have intelligent driving assistance, intelligent voice control and other functions, it is basically equivalent to losing competitiveness. In this context, new energy models equipped with high-end intelligent driver assistance functions have shown obvious advantages in the field of active safety.
Including BYD Automobile's DiPilot intelligent driving assistance system, Xiaopeng Automobile's NGP intelligent navigation assistance driving, Great Wall Motor's NOH intelligent pilot assistance driving assistance system, etc., the latest high-end intelligent driving assistance functions developed by major Chinese car brands have been widely applied to new energy models, which has greatly improved the active safety performance of new energy vehicles.
Taking the Xiaopeng P7 that Brother Reel has test-driven as an example, the NGP intelligent navigation assistance driven by the car adopts the dual perception scheme of vision + radar, which can not only achieve intelligent follow-up, but also change lanes to overtake, and the processing of data is also quite rapid and powerful. When the navigation shows that it is necessary to switch high speeds, the vehicle will automatically slow down, change lanes to the rightmost lane in advance, and after entering the ramp, the vehicle will reduce the speed to the speed limit range, and can re-accelerate after smoothly switching high speeds (according to the lane speed limit). At this time, the driver only needs to keep observing and ready to take over the vehicle at any time, and there is basically no need for other operations.
The active safety performance of vehicles is increasingly valued by consumers, and people are more eager to get into a smart car to add more safety in case of emergency. If you're interested in high-end smart driver assistance features, you might as well take the lead in setting your sights on new energy vehicles, making it easier to get the answers you want.
Big cars are safer than small cars, it's true!
In the general perception, the larger the car, the better the safety. In particular, the models of major automobile brands are often medium and large cars, medium and large SUVs, and the cost of such flagship models is higher, and the material application and functional configuration are better than other models.
This statement is not unreasonable, because according to the Blue Book, in the comprehensive scoring rate list, medium and large SUVs and medium and large cars rank first and second, with scoring rates of 88.7% and 88.4%, respectively, while the first to last is the small SUV, with a scoring rate of only 65.7%. It can be seen that the "big car" has advantages in safety.
In fact, the IIHS crash test in the United States, which has always been known for its harshness, also gave a similar conclusion. In its list of "models with the highest mortality rates", 9 of them belong to the small or mini car category. Among the "0 mortality" models, they are basically the world of big cars, including Infiniti QX60, Range Rover Evoque, Porsche Cayenne and other models. Careful you should find that among them, most of them are medium and large cars of luxury brands, no wonder most people have a "sense of worship" for luxury brands.
However, the size advantage of the big car also needs to take care of the feeling of the car. By increasing the area of the collision beam of the large SUV and moving down the position of the collision beam, as far as possible to coincide with the position of the collision beam of the car, the car can be protected to a certain extent. Otherwise, a slight collision can knock the car beyond recognition, which will be detrimental to the development of other types of models. After all, smaller models often have the advantages of fuel economy and good handling, and parking is more convenient. Good guidance can make the development of the automotive market healthier, which is also the responsibility of crash testing agencies.
In addition to focusing on Chinese brand cars, new energy vehicles, and larger vehicles, the design of pedestrian protection performance and AEB technology are also the focus of the industry. In particular, whether the AEB automatic emergency braking system can become the standard in automobiles has aroused widespread discussion. Some data show that because the vehicle equipped with AEB will take automatic braking measures when the driver does not respond in time, the accident rate can be reduced by 27%, and the rear-end collision can be reduced by 38%, and the safety protection effect is very prominent. If domestically produced cars are equipped with AEB as standard and traffic accidents are reduced, then congestion is expected to be further alleviated. With the improvement of laws and regulations, automobile production is bound to be more standardized, and it will be the victory of the "waiting party".