If you hold an aesthetic contest for the 250cc pedal, then the most uncomfortable model in the competition is not a European scooter, or let's put it bluntly, the most likely model to be spit on by everyone must be the Piaggio X7, only because the shape of the X7 is too retro, too unique, too European.
If you don't know about this car, you may think that the appearance is actually fine, very European scooter agility, at first I also think the X7 looks good, until I saw such a picture, when I associated the X7 with people after a piece. I can't go back to my impression of the car.
This is the most human-like motorcycle I've ever seen...
However, we really can't complain too much about the appearance of X7, after all, X7 was born in 2007 and has a history of 15 years. At that time, the appearance of X7 was not only not old-fashioned, but even a little ahead of its time and agility, and in the early years, X7's main competitors were emerging scooter manufacturers such as Obayashi, and with Piaggio's aperture, the sales of X7 at the beginning of the listing were still very good.
Piaggio is in Europe, just like Haojue in China, and there is no doubt about its brand power.
Although the brand is very strong, the X7's lifeline in Europe is not very long, and the production of the X7 hastily ended in 2012. If you ask why? In fact, Piaggio himself could not tell.
However, according to the evaluation of foreign car friends, there are two main reasons for the demise of X7 in Europe.
First of all, Piaggio's own product line is somewhat chaotic, X7 above X8, X8 above X9, these difficult brothers and sisters to sell some of their own, each other to seize the market, and consumers can not figure out what they should buy.
Secondly, because the size of the X7 is a bit "small" for Europeans, it is small and flexible, it does not stick to the edges, and it is wide and comfortable.
After such a round of tossing, the X7 car was also hidden by Piaggio, and it was not until 9 years later that the X7 was put into the domestic market again under the umbrella of Zongshen Piaggio.
In March 2021, Zongshen Piaggio officially released the X7, priced at 19980 yuan.
In the days before the price was released after the spy photos flowed out, the X7 was difficult, and the staff of Zongshen Piaggio was also difficult to survive, only because the domestic riders' evaluation of the car was surprisingly consistent - the X7 was too unique for us to accept. However, when the price of the X7 was released, the evaluation of this car by domestic riders has undergone a great change - pedal retro style, X7 is really fragrant!
Yes, the X7 is the only 250cc joint venture scooter in China that gives you ABS+ASR at a price of 20,000 yuan.
Parameter configuration:
When the X7 was first released, its configuration was extremely thick, with the same engine as the SR MAX 250, a single-cylinder water-cooled four-valve, equipped with Magneti Marelli's EFI system, with a maximum power of 15.6kw/8500rpm and a maximum torque of 21nm/6500rpm.
In terms of size, the 760mm seat height, 745mm width, and the wheelbase of 1480mm should be more friendly to the domestic height, so foreigners feel that this car is not unreasonable.
In terms of brakes, the X7 is equipped with front-facing four-piston calipers and rear one-way dual-piston calipers, which are full of sincerity in the joint venture pedals of less than 20,000, and it is also equipped with a dual-channel Bosch ABS, plus The ASR anti-skid system developed by Zongshen Piaggio himself, which is not available in the X7 released in 2007 and is not available in other scooters at the same price. Not to mention that the X7 is also equipped with a chip key and KYB's shock absorption system, and the X7's true fragrance has been heard endlessly.
The car released in 2007 can also make people want to buy in 2021, which is a great thing in itself, and the configuration of 2021 is still not outdated in 2022, in this competitive environment, it is enough to see that X7's sincerity to everyone is indeed enough.
But the X7 has only been on fire for a few months, and the X7 in the second half of 2021 is like a frosted eggplant — it's gone, it's wilted, and it seems like the masses don't need him anymore.
What happened to make the ultra-cost X7 suddenly lose its competitiveness in the market?
Mainly made, X7 made its own...
Everything was fine at the beginning of the listing, but Zongshen Piaggio's mysterious operation made everyone lose patience and expectations for the X7 again and again.
Event 1: Chip key reduction
The internal cause is because the order of X7 is too crazy, so that it exceeds Piaggio's own prejudgment of this matter, the stock is insufficient, the chip is not enough, the delivery progress can not catch up with the progress of the return order, and Piaggio himself is also very anxious.
External reasons are because the chip is indeed not enough, last year's chip crisis do not know if you remember it, the same year's Spring Wind 800MT also suspended the sale of the keyless starter version, Benda and Kaiyue have postponed delivery.
So X7 simply canceled the chip key, replaced by a reduced price of 100 yuan, and the retail price became 19880 yuan. At this moment, consumers are still buying it, after all, the chip key is not very meaningful, you should lose the car or lose the car, everyone has no emotion about it, but the consumer's concessions may prompt Piaggio to carry out the second step, a relatively unacceptable action.
Event 2: Bosch ABS is gone
Hey, surprises or surprises? Unexpected or not? The Bosch ABS is gone, but the price of the vehicle has not changed further and remains at its original price. This move has completely aroused public indignation, why did the ABS reduce the price but remain unchanged? Where has your conscience gone?
As an insider, the quality of this matter is actually not easy to say, if you compare the X7 equipped with Saifu ABS and the X7 equipped with Bosch ABS, you may find that in fact, everyone's braking distance has not changed, but Saifu's brand power is indeed not as strong as Bosch, consumers can accept that you upgrade from Saifu to Bosch - beyond everyone's psychological expectations, but can not accept that you have changed from Bosch to Saifu - does not meet everyone's psychological expectations.
This is the same as you go to bargain, a motorcycle worth 700 yuan, the price of 1000 yuan, you bargained back to 700, you will feel valued, even if he was worth 700 yuan.
And a motorcycle worth 700 yuan, the price of 700 yuan, you go to bargain, the other party will not let a penny, even if he is worth so much, you will not have much desire to buy.
Psychological expectations are so important, shopping is not only a process of paying money, but also a comfortable process.
So the X7 is not fragrant, even if it still has a strong competitiveness, but in the expectations of riders, it is no longer the car that was incense to the explosion. Not to mention that Zongshen Piaggio also has its riotous operations, such as reducing the price, Bosch ABS and Saifu ABS are not bad at all, but you need to increase the price when you buy X7 with different sitting heights...
After this repeated mysterious operation, X7's die-hard fans have "endured" the pain of lifting the car and began to face a beautiful new life. And the X7 has a lot of criticism of the user, after this is also disappointed in x7, changed to other cars, so that the X7 user group has a break, a generation of god car it will not be able to sell out of worry.
Until August 2021, Zongshen Piaggio also felt that he could no longer do this, and we had to catch the user's psychological expectations back! Piaggio took the opportunity to launch the X7 Night Edition, which is bound to regain the psychological expectations of users. The biggest change in the YaoYe version compared to the ordinary version is that the official directly tells you that the chip key is gone, and the Bosch ABS is gone, but Piaggio provides everyone with 6 installments of interest-free, as well as the service of sitting high and low and no longer charging separately, which is also a rescue of a group of users.
Seeing this, you may wonder, why is Piaggio so iron-headed, would rather release a new model than reduce the price of the car?
Is it really not okay to reduce prices?
It really can't work, because once Piaggio reduces the price, after the chip production capacity is restored, it is difficult for him to adjust the price back, and when everyone accepts a car because of the low price, any price increase will affect the sales of the vehicle. And from the practical point of view, the difference between SEF and Bosch ABS is really not enough to constitute a reason to affect the price.
Open the idle fish, we can also find the X7 price of the mystery of the firm, a year old X7, its used car price can still be maintained at 10,000 7/8, which is enough to show from the side that the X7 car basically has no premium, as long as you don't mind its ABS is provided by Saifu, then X7 is a real real fragrance model.
summary:
Is the X7 a good car?
Although it is a product that has been unveiled in 2007, but today, the X7 is still a good car for urban commuting, especially for those who like large pedals, within 20,000, water-cooled 250, joint venture, and anti-skid, these are the advantages of X7, and it is its absolute advantage.
Within the 20,000 budget, there is no other joint venture 250cc scooter for you to choose from except the X7, which is also a more realistic problem.
Who is the X7 for?
Utility Party, Two-Person Commuter Party, Safety First Party, and people who have a just need for 250cc scooters, in fact, many 150cc scooters can do these functions of the X7 from the perspective of transportation alone, but in terms of back-end acceleration and speed, the advantage of 250 is still incomparable to 150 scooters.
That said X7 new products have been released, the price of 23,000 is not very good evaluation, so for the details of the new X7, I will talk to you again in the future, but I am more curious, if you are ready to buy a scooter at a price of 20,000 yuan, will you choose the new X7? Old X7? Or what other car?
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