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The Nissan X-Trail on the cusp of the storm needs to be understood by more people

It has been almost a year since the launch of the new Nissan X-Trail in July 2021. This model is also a major replacement of Nissan X-Trail, the chassis, power, configuration, design, the overall look. Today we are going to talk about the comprehensive evaluation of this car, because we have also bought this car for more than 8 months.

China's auto consumer market is being hyped up

From the day China's auto consumer market was established, it was destined that this cake would become a battlefield and be ruthlessly divided. Different from overseas markets, the operating model and competition mode of China's automobile consumer market are many different. Today, we will not discuss the Chinese automobile consumer market, but only hope that everyone who reads this article will send a soul torture question to themselves, "What do I want?" ”

In China's automobile consumer market, a new car can be "enshrined" by everyone in just a few months, or it can be "fallen off the altar" in just a few months. And the reason is that no one can accurately say "why", because it is expensive? Because of the three-cylinder machine? Because of the low configuration? These are just excuses, the main reason is that the market is "speculated", everyone goes with the flow, and they don't know what they want. Volkswagen understands Chinese, each car is specially improved for the Chinese market, you said that Volkswagen can not buy a special car in China. Toyota understands Chinese, everyone likes to save fuel on the sale of double engines, on the three cylinders on the small displacement, the result you say like strong power. The United States General Dynamics is strong, in order to balance the fuel consumption to do variable cylinder technology, you still think that people have high fuel consumption and high failure rate.

From the technical point of view, the three-cylinder engine does have some inherent defects, and the reason is that many big coffee who understand cars have popularized the knowledge. But this does not mean that the four-cylinder engine is not defective, in contrast, the soaring oil price today, the four-cylinder engine is still very expensive. Engraved in everyone's mind there is a fixed thinking, cylinders you can be more but you absolutely can not be less, and you less than a cylinder will be cheaper a lot of money, can not three cylinder machines but also sell so high prices. With Nissan X-Trail as an example, have you considered the research and development cost of the VC-TURBO ultra-variable engine technology? Why did Nissan develop VC-TURBO ultra-variable engine technology? Is there any difference between a three-cylinder engine with a VC-TURBO super variable engine and other three-cylinder engines? In addition to some people spraying three-cylinder engines, almost no one to popularize this knowledge, who said it will be called "recharge" suspected.

What can X-Trail's three-cylinder engine bring

As mentioned earlier, I hope that everyone can clearly know what they want, which needs to be based on understanding the product. The inherent defect of the three-cylinder engine is the physical imbalance caused by the operation of the odd-numbered cylinder, especially the time from the static state to the smooth working time of the cylinder during ignition. The solution is to add cushioning at the engine and body connections, add crankshaft balance bars, and other ways to suppress jitter. Please believe in the car research and development engineers, they will try their best to suppress the jitter, as for everyone said that the jitter will be more obvious after a long time, we do not rule out that there will be this situation, but from today's technical point of view, after a long time, the jitter will not be so outrageous. There are pros and cons depending on whether everyone can accept it.

Of course, I myself test-drove a variety of three-cylinder engines, from the intuitive feeling in the test drive, the three-cylinder engine speed will be very high, which is conducive to the power output when starting and accelerating, so that the driver feels that the three-cylinder engine can also be powered rapidly. This is especially evident in the general-purpose designation "LI6", which is particularly pronounced, and the high speed means that it is noisy. In addition, some three-cylinder engines will cause the vehicle to be unable to accelerate twice after a speed of 120 km / h.

Understanding the disadvantages of the three-cylinder engine, we will talk about the advantages. The advantage is of course fuel saving, frankly speaking, the current China's policy on carbon emissions and road congestion is more suitable for three-cylinder engines, otherwise there will not be so many car companies risking the cusp of public opinion and so obstinate. To make up for the shortcomings and inherit the advantages, it is necessary to say that Nissan X-Trail's VC-TURBO super variable engine technology.

VC-TURBO variable fuel compression ratio technology, to achieve 8:1 (high performance) -14:1 (high efficiency) compression ratio stepless variable, real-time intelligent switching. Translated into the vernacular, it gives you the power you want when you need it, and when you need to maintain high-speed battery life, it can also bring you the most economical fuel performance. To put it outrageously, why is the car also 2.0 displacement four cylinders running so fast, why doesn't your car work? It's because your fuel compression ratio is different. Nissan X-Trail's VC-TURBO super variable engine technology can make your vehicle engine look like a racing car for a while like a civilian car, which ensures the life of the engine and can make the fuel fully burn more fuel-efficient. Of course, the racing metaphor is a bit of an exaggeration, but the meaning is similar.

More practically, with X-Trail's CVT gearbox, this three-cylinder engine will not be so forward at the beginning, making passengers uncomfortable, and at high speed, it can also bring sufficient acceleration performance, and there is not much difference in driving experience with other four-cylinder engines. Of course, this also needs to be combined with the choice of nissan X-Trail's driving mode, basically the daily driving use of economic mode is enough, other driving modes are switched according to the actual situation. However, according to my understanding of this car, each driving mode choice of Nissan X-Trail is not a decoration, and the change in driving is still more intuitive.

Don't overlook other details

It is true that Nissan X-Trail was once also a model with higher sales in SUVs, and in everyone's criticism, the three-cylinder Nissan X-Trail "fell off the altar", and we cannot use the three-cylinder engine as an absolute standard, while ignoring the other advantages of Nissan X-Trail.

Nissan X-Trail's advantages in sound insulation and noise reduction are also very obvious, and the whole series is equipped with active noise reduction as standard, and the ride is also very comfortable, which is a kind of inheritance of Nissan. In addition, Nissan X-Trail's outstanding advantage lies in the 12.3-inch display of the central control, which has the functions of The Internet of Vehicles, OTA upgrade, voice control and navigation. This may not sound like an advantage compared to other models, but in real daily use, you will find that the operation is very smooth, the navigation is accurate and easy to use, and the functions are also perfect. Compared with the same level of Japanese models, Nissan X-Trail's car machine system is more user-friendly, and also supports mobile phone remote viewing of vehicle status, remote control of vehicles and other functions, more convenient for daily use.

In addition, Nissan's flagship ProPILOT super intelligent driving function we have also experienced on many Nissan models, a key to open can complete the L2 level of intelligent driving assistance. Parallel assist, lane departure warning, lane keeping, road traffic sign recognition, active braking, and fatigue detection can be achieved. Combined with the HUD head-up display system, information such as navigation route, vehicle speed, fuel consumption and so on can be projected on the windshield, making daily driving safer.

Chedegang Summary:

The quality of Nissan X-Trail's car, from our subjective point of view, is indeed a very good urban all-area SUV model. For consumers, it is necessary to consider comprehensively in combination with their own use. We also bought a top-of-the-line model of Nissan X-Trail, and now that we have been driving this Nissan X-Trail to many places, we have also used a high-frequency work car in addition to daily transportation.

Because it is really fuel-efficient, in the face of frequent cars that need to run east and west every day, Nissan X-Trail has helped us save a lot of fuel costs. At the same time, we often have to shoot other vehicles in various terrain and road conditions, loaded with photographic equipment and other equipment, and X-Trail's off-road ability has also been verified. From the beginning of the listing of this car, we drove Nissan X-Trail to the Alxa Desert, the plateau of Lhasa in Tibet, the tropical rainforest of Hainan Island, and crossed the forest and sea snow field in the cold weather of more than 30 degrees below zero in Changbai Mountain, and Nissan X-Trail was able to take us home smoothly and safely. Therefore, we should not only evaluate Nissan X-Trail for the problem of the three-cylinder engine, but also from its own point of view, comprehensively analyze the advantages and disadvantages of Nissan X-Trail, and see if its advantages are in line with its current car needs, and whether its so-called "shortcomings" can be accepted.

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