People who like to chase dramas should have heard of Netflix (Netflix), and launched high-quality homemade dramas such as "Squid Game", "House of Cards", "The Walking Dead" and so on. As a streaming pioneer, Netflix has won the favor of subscribers with its rich content and excellent customer experience, and has even threatened the status of Fox, Universal, and mainstream film giants such as Sony and Disney. Unlike the industry's traditional competitors, Netflix has the advantage of "long tail" - that is, it has a variety of DVDs that meet the tastes of users. It will choose to recommend to the audience based on their preferences and fashion trends. Simply put, the root of the long tail effect is a large market that emphasizes personalization, and this also exists in the automotive industry.
When product homogenization comes to an end, individuality and difference become weights that transcend the traditional mainstream. So among the many personality and differentiated products that are promoted as sporty, is there a model that is pure enough? I think you can always find the answer in Civic.
In Europe, america, Japan and South Korea will set the compact car as more and more household era, the mainstream family car of the same level, either still using a small displacement self-priming engine, or a set of power for eight years, or even a set of frames for eight years, these competitors in the face of market demand, not to provide users with more driving pleasure, the main purpose is just to fill the market gap.
Honda is different, only he has built the tenth generation of Civic against the trend into a combat-filled sports car. The 1.5T Earth Dream turbine looks at the power of the same generation; more complex McPherson suspension; the low lying posture of the seat height drop by as much as 25mm; the weight of the 1.3-ton car, while maintaining the anti-torsional rigidity of 35975Nm/Deg, etc., almost the ceiling of the same class model, the performance advantage is far beyond the same level of family cars from the beginning. And it can also lead most mainstream models of the same class in terms of sales performance as a personalized sports car.
Ten generations of Civic is undoubtedly the "long tail effect" of the family car industry to play the sportiness to the extreme, even today, as long as it is a model with the title of "sports car" listed, it must be benchmarked against the Civic. This is enough to show how high the civic's sports status is in the minds of consumers, and people are less likely to accept a mediocre civic. For the eleventh generation civic, this is both an encouragement and a test.
So, has the Eleventh Generation Civic improved in terms of performance and handling? The answer is yes.
First of all, let's talk about the engine, the eleventh generation Of Civic is equipped with 1.5T four-cylinder power, canceling the original 1.0T three-cylinder engine. Although the high/low power version has only improved horsepower in single digits from a parameter point of view, and the torque increase is about 20 meters, the low power version has actually achieved 129 horses. In contrast, the entry-level of other family cars at the same level is either 1.5/1.6L self-priming, or 1.2/1.3T, which is an ultra-small displacement, and may even be a three-cylinder machine. In other words, the eleventh generation of Civics that updates the power configuration, no matter which version you buy, the power experience will not be bad.
Some Of the Ashkenazi competitors actually accelerate very quickly, but they often match dual-clutch transmissions, require more delicate driving skills to avoid abrupt downshifts, and suddenly increase the power slightly abruptly to achieve "good driving".
On the basis of speeding up, another development concept of the eleventh generation Civic is the "refreshing pleasure" of driving. To this end, the eleventh generation Civic continued to use the CVT gearbox, but improved the shift logic, introduced a more suitable gear ratio, and the gear change process was uninterrupted, so that its acceleration can be achieved with the light pleasure of stepping. This is something that is difficult to achieve with a dynamic fault in the European dual clutch.
In addition, the eleventh generation Civic chassis is as reassuring as ever, and there are many details of the adjustment, such as the front suspension of the adapter ball head, the addition of the bearing front shock absorber, the friction coefficient is lower; including the re-tuned electronic steering system, and the integration of large size and flexible bushing of the front and rear suspension, etc., for the vehicle's driving texture and handling limits have been improved, while avoiding the road noise affecting the chassis, improving NVH performance.
And the eleventh generation Civic has also further improved driving stability by widening the rear track by 12mm; moving back the A-pillar, lowering the hood control, and the instrument panel that does not obscure the line of sight to bring improved visibility; and the seat has been redesigned according to ergonomics to make driving more enveloping.
Some people say that the Civic Re-Movement is a family car after all, so what is the significance of such an emphasis on movement? This not only means that it is a pure sports car that pursues handling performance, but also means that daily driving can make you cope with it when you encounter relatively extreme scenes or road conditions.
On weekdays, we recommend family cars, and we habitually divide the car buyers with male and female labels. Especially for female users, the author of "straight male cancer" will often recommend some models that are more in line with their driving habits because of the "particularity" under subjective understanding. But in the face of the eleventh generation of Civic, I can not hesitate to recommend it to any young, passionate, manipulative consumer, both men and women.
The reason is that it meets the needs of users for sports and personality, and also does its best to provide a higher level of security than the same level.
The eleventh generation of Civic is equipped with Honda SENSING safety super sense system, the new TJA traffic congestion assistance system, which can help ACC adaptive cruise to achieve lane keeping at low speed: the camera and microwave radar can monitor the speed difference and distance between their own vehicles and the vehicles in front of them in real time, and automatically adjust the speed to maintain a safe distance from the vehicle in front. At the same time, the threshold triggered by a series of functions such as lane keeping has also been reduced to 0km/h.
In addition, in the replacement of a previous model, we have paid more attention to the improvement of the rigidity of the whole vehicle and increased passive safety. The eleventh generation Civic is not only based on Honda's exclusive G-con safety technology, but also through the optimization of body materials and structures, it has achieved an 8% increase in torsional rigidity and a 13% increase in bending rigidity. And because of the body structure, the use of aluminum alloy materials, high-strength steel materials, to ensure the collision safety performance at the same time, to achieve lightweight.
And in the details of the body design, a lot of processing has been done. For example, the roof part uses laser welding, the welding gap becomes smaller, and the rigidity is enhanced; such as the new M-type bumper, the structural change brings strength increase; and then there is the blessing of the leading 10 airbags at the same level, with such a full range of passive protection, the eleventh generation Civic really allows you to give it a go.
Admittedly, the Eleventh Generation Civic is a strong enough driver and safety to highlight its individuality and purity. But at the same time, it is also an A+ size car, with good practicality, advanced interior and exterior texture, and support for intelligent voice control, electronic payment, mobile phone interconnection, OTA upgrades, car home interconnection and other functions, which can significantly improve the daily convenience of Honda CONNECT 3.0 intelligent guide interconnection system. In the competition, perhaps these full-dimensional "barrel attributes" improvements are common, but you must admire that no car in the same class can achieve such a clear performance and safety label on this basis.