"Three cylinders for four cylinders" This is a phenomenon in the recent Chinese car market, such as Buick, Ford and other brands, there are models with 4 cylinder engines to replace the previous three-cylinder engine, as the main force of the independent brand camp, Geely has also recently joined the ranks of "three for four", although before this, these car companies are full of confidence in their own three-cylinder engines, but the cruel market sales show that three-cylinder engines are difficult to be accepted by too many people.
In the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's 355th batch of "Road Motor Vehicle Manufacturers and Product Announcements" new product announcement, equipped with a four-cylinder 1.5T engine Lynk & Co 06 officially appeared, as the entry-level SUV of the Lynk & Co brand, Lynk & Co 06 performed generally after listing, with 47,662 traffic insurance units in 2021, and its benchmark models Honda Binzhi and XR-V in mind were 168947 and 185327 vehicles, respectively. For Lynk & Co 06, it will face greater market pressure in the future, because Toyota has launched two models with close prices and high safety configurations to the Corolla Sharp Release and Fenglanda; in the face of more brutal market competition, it is also reasonable for Lynk & Co 06 to choose "three for four".
According to the declaration materials, the new Lynk & Co 06 is equipped with a 1.5T four-cylinder engine with a model of BHE15-EFZ, which is produced by Aurora Bay Technology Co., Ltd., and its former name is Zhejiang Geely Powertrain Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Geely Luoyou Engine Co., Ltd., which is Geely's own engine company, and Binrui, ICON, Binyue and other models will be re-equipped This 1.5T engine, its maximum power is 133kw, the maximum net power of the engine is 128kw; compared with the 130kw of the current 1.5T three-cylinder engine, it has a slight advantage in power output and adopts the four-cylinder design that the Chinese people like.
In terms of configuration, the performance of the current Lynk & Co 06 is not bad, the change of the new car model will not be too big, it has reached the level that the same level of cars should have. In terms of price, the current Lynk & Co 06 price range is 11.86-13.98 million yuan, after the replacement of the 4-cylinder engine, it should not have much change, the price or symbolic adjustment to 119,800 yuan, about 6,000 yuan lower than The 125,800 yuan of Fenglanda.
From the current Lynk & Co 06 configuration level, Kitten believes that it has no obvious advantage in the same price model, in the 138,600 high-end version of the model only has lane keeping, lane departure warning, adaptive cruise, active braking and other active safety configurations, and on the Corolla Sharp, these configurations are the standard of all models, Kitten believes that this is where Lynk & Co 06 needs to be improved.
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Looking forward to the future market trend of the new Lynk & Co 06, the replacement of the four-cylinder engine will help to increase its sales, but the current market competition is fierce. Traffic insurance data show that the total number of compulsory traffic insurance in the first three months of this year was 8842 vehicles, while the number of traffic insurance for corolla Ruifang and Fenglanda, which had just been listed, was 7386 vehicles and 9840 vehicles in the same period, and in March, the monthly traffic insurance number of Lynk & Co 06 was 2254 vehicles, and the number of Fenglanda had reached 7215. Considering that Lynk & Co has accumulated a certain reputation and recognition in the market, if the new Lynk & Co 06 can be equipped with a four-cylinder engine while improving the overall safety configuration level, it has the opportunity to hand over the average monthly sales of more than 4,000 vehicles.