The Toyota Prado may be a little strange to young people, but for middle-aged people, it may be a dream of their youth. Especially at the beginning of the century, Toyota Prado had just been introduced into the country, causing a sensation. For that era, when domestic automobiles were just starting out, the technology was limited and relatively backward.
The Prado entered the country as an importer, and its expensive price and strong off-road performance have become the dream of many men. Toyota's original advertisement in China was "because of strength, so hegemonic", and later because it involved some political issues, the "hegemonic" car was renamed prado, but the name "hegemony" has been deeply imprinted in the minds of many people, when people thought that successful people had to open a hegemonic way.
Is that Prado really that good? In my opinion, if it was more than a decade ago, you wanted to choose a car with good off-road performance, then the Prado was indeed a good choice. But in today's, domestic brands and many other joint venture brands currently have off-road performance of good off-road vehicles, Prado does not actually have too many advantages, and because of the reason of not meeting the national six emissions, FAW Toyota also suspended the production line of domestic Prado in previous years.
Recently, it has been reported that a new generation of Parallel Import Toyota Prado has arrived in Hong Kong, and it is said that the price is as high as 700,000 yuan or more. This price can shock me a big surprise, compared to the previous domestic Prado's highest equipped model is more than 200,000 expensive, parallel imports of Prado to provide a 2.8D diesel engine, matching the old 6AT gearbox, the maximum power is only 150kW, the peak twist of 500N·m.
Although I think that the new car can bring better torque performance with a diesel engine, and it will improve in off-road performance, it is really not worth the price of up to 700,000 yuan, so this is undoubtedly the car dealer using his feelings to cut leeks. You know, the domestic off-road vehicle market is different from the past, especially compared with the tank 500 that was just listed some time ago, I would like to ask which place in the Prado has an advantage over the tank 500?
First of all, the tank 500 is only half the price of it, and it is more than a little stronger than the Prado in terms of appearance and interior, including materials, so those who say Prado is good should wake up.
To say that prado is bad? Of course not, it is indeed a leather durable car, it is not worth the price at all, the technology is old, not to mention that it is sold so expensive, the reason why it is not bad is because the technology is old, so it is not easy to break. That may be some people budget enough not willing to choose tank 500, must choose seven or eight hundred thousand cars, the same price range of Land Rover Defender than Prado more fragrant, Land Rover Defender whether in brand power, off-road performance, or design sense, which point is not better than Prado.
The Prado did exist like a god car more than a decade ago, because at that time we didn't have many choices, and if you wanted a car with good off-road performance and a large space, you could only choose it, but now that we have so many choices, is it not good for cars like the Tank 500 and land Rover Defender?
Write at the end
In my opinion, the Prado is a good car, but it is indeed not worth such a high price, it has been the price of the rising since the domestic suspension of production, in fact, these are because consumers are accustomed to it, the price is also speculated. Nowadays, there are many models that have the strength to replace the Prado, if the parallel import of the Prado really sells more than 700,000, the price is really worthy of its "overbearing" name, but I think, this time Chinese consumers should no longer be accustomed to it, right?