Recently, the Association of Automobile Manufacturers released the sales data for March 2022, FAW Toyota Yize sold 1165 vehicles in a single month, and the cumulative sales in the first quarter of this year were only 3122 vehicles, almost the worst sales of Toyota SUVs.
As a small SUV, Yi ze is definitely a "large displacement", less than 4.4 meters of body, but equipped with a 2.0L naturally aspirated engine. It is not difficult to see from the publicity of FAW Toyota's official "Jin qing driving to" that the manufacturer's positioning of Yize is not a boring "grocery shopping car", but a popular coupe SUV.
However, once it is related to sports, few new cars can die well. After all, most manufacturers' understanding of the movement is that the shape is done crazy and cool, what big mouth grille, four exhaust, tail wing all over again, the interior atmosphere is full on the line.
In fact, the first condition for sport is an excellent engine and transmission. The second is the matching chassis, suspension, tires, intake and exhaust and other parts. Finally there's the sports kit, the sports cockpit.
Apparently, Yi Ze also made this mistake. The result is that they neither attract potential users who pursue sports nor impress home users who commute daily.
First of all, let's talk about Yize's powertrain, equipped with the M20 series 2.0L naturally aspirated engine, which is used in many Toyota models and even Lexus models, with a maximum horsepower of 171ps peak torque of 203N·m, matched with a CVT transmission that simulates 10 speeds. A hybrid version is also available to match the E-CVT gearbox.
This set of powertrain is more about the pursuit of energy efficiency balance and stability, which is very in line with the Toyota brand", "fuel saving" and "not bad". However, the athletic performance is still unsatisfactory, the front section acceleration is not fast enough, the middle section overtaking speed is always slow and half a beat, only after the speed comes up, relying on inertia and relatively large displacement, in order to obtain a good rear section power reserve.
The overall performance is obviously not as good as the 1.5T turbo engine of honda binzhi and other competitors, Yize official 0-100km/h accelerated fuel version of 10.3 seconds, hybrid version 10.1 seconds, more than 2 seconds slower than the competitors, so in the powertrain, I think Yize is not athletic enough.
Secondly, in terms of chassis and suspension and tire performance, Yize is the first SUV built based on toyota TNGA architecture, and friends with impressions know that it improves the handling of the chassis and the overall safety. However, the main model of Yize uses Dunlop ENASAVE EC300+ series 215/60 R17 tires, the main function of the tire is "fuel saving performance" and "riding comfort", which shows that Yize is not built with the standard of a coupe SUV.
In summary, if you take the "grocery cart" standard, I think Yize's "three major pieces" performance is good. If you want to use the coupe SUV standard, I think Yi Ze obviously failed.
Looking back, in order to pursue the so-called "sport" and meet the definition of a coupe SUV, Yi Ze gave up the riding space, and the actual riding performance was very depressing, dissuading potential users of family cars. After all, the 2.0L engine is bigger than the horse, the energy consumption performance is not as good as the small displacement turbo SUV, and the price of the hybrid version of the oil-powered version is too high. In addition, the overall price of Yize is expensive, and the main model can almost buy many mainstream compact SUVs.
It can be seen that it is not that the coupe SUV is doomed to low sales, but that Yize only achieved the shape of the coupe SUV, but there is no sports essence, to put it bluntly, it is inconsistent. At the same time, Yize also gave up the practicality of the home SUV, and eventually the two ends were not flattered, resulting in dismal sales, almost the worst-selling Toyota SUV.
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