Chatting with many car people, everyone generally believes that 2024 will be a year of crazy rolling in the automobile market, especially the war between new energy and fuel vehicles, which will make a large number of car companies feel the pressure to survive. In the 10-120,000 class sedan market, new energy vehicles have become the mainstream in the market with large space, low cost, and flexible driving feeling, such as SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 is the sales champion of joint venture pure electric vehicles in 2023, and BYD Dolphin is also a highly sought-after hot seller. There are many consumers who are caught in the entanglement of the two cars, so as the identity of the urban shuttle car, who is better to buy these two cars?
The difference between the front and rear wheel drive SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 drives more virtuously
For a 10-120,000 class pure electric hatchback, what are the key factors for consumers to buy? Xiaobian believes that there are two points, the first is to have a flexible driving feeling, the Polo and Fit in the previous fuel era can sell well, a very important reason is that their driving experience is very good, shuttle in the city with ease, and there are many aspects involving flexible driving feeling, such as enough acceleration in the middle and middle stage, accurate direction control, and small enough turning radius, that look at the present, but also have a good urban driving assistance.
At the power level, SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 and BYD Dolphin equipped with motor power and torque are not much different, the most critical between them is the drive form is different, SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 is rear-wheel drive, and Dolphin is front-wheel drive, so in extreme road conditions, there will be a difference in driving feeling, such as the rear wheel of the rear-wheel drive car is responsible for driving, the front wheel is responsible for steering, and the weight of the front and rear is relatively uniform, the handling is better, and the performance of the high-speed cornering is better than that of the front-wheel drive car, and the Dolphin is more space-saving and the cost is lower.
In particular, the ID.3 accelerates from 0 to 50 km/h in just 3 seconds, responds quickly, and its turning radius is much smaller than that of ordinary cars. In terms of actual driving experience, although SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 is a pure electric car, it has a richer and more delicate driving control feeling, whether it is the chassis feedback during shock absorption, or the response of the accelerator and brake pedal, it is still a strong Volkswagen oil car taste, very easy to use and textured.
In addition, the Dolphin is equipped with 16-inch wheels except for the top 17-inch wheels. The ID.3 comes standard with 18-inch wheels, and there are two 20-inch wheels that can be selected.
Driver assistance system There is a difference between the two cars
In addition to flexible control and good power, many intelligent driving settings are also very important for successful urban mobility cars. For example, SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 has an AR-HUD intelligent guide, which is rare in the same class of cars, which can project driving and navigation information onto the front windshield, and present it dynamically to combine virtual and real with the road conditions ahead. For example, when you need to turn, the blue arrow will be tiled on the road surface, and the closer you get to the turn, the larger the arrow will be, which helps the driver not need to look down at the mobile phone or car navigation, which greatly improves the safety performance. In addition, there are light sprites across the left and right under the windshield, navigation indicates turning, lane change, blue light strip will turn blue, if there is a danger of collision or the car in front of you slows down, the light strip will turn red to give a dynamic reminder, improve the driving safety factor.
The dolphin headlights also have the same automatic high and low beam function as the SAIC Volkswagen ID.3, which is conducive to night driving safety. However, the dolphin puts more intelligence on in-car entertainment, for example, it has a larger 12.8-inch central control screen, and can rotate the horizontal and vertical screens, which is conducive to the application of some apps, and the dolphin's seat comfort is good, and it performs well in the same level of cars.
In terms of intelligent driving, SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 body is equipped with 5 cameras, 8 ultrasonic radars, and 3 millimeter-wave radars, of which the cost price of millimeter-wave radar alone is about 2000 yuan, which can detect a distance of 100 meters, and rain and snow are not limited. The number of dolphin cameras and millimeter-wave radars has not been announced, according to the editor's inquiry, there should be a millimeter-wave radar, in terms of hardware, SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 obviously continues the style of German car materials. In addition, the SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 is equipped with a full-journey intelligent driving assistance system, with ACC adaptive cruise control (with stop & go automatic start and stop), as well as reversing side warning and merge assist, such as when the reversing view is blocked by the left and right vehicles, and when a vehicle happens to pass by, it can sound an alarm. The Dolphin uses DiPilot assisted driving, and only the top configuration has full-speed adaptive cruise, lane centering, and no reversing side warning and merging assist functions.
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The above is mainly from the driving level, to analyze who is better to drive the two cars, there is no doubt that SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 has more advantages. In terms of ride, both cars are small in size and have a big belly, but the wheelbase of the ID.3 has an advantage, and the advantage of the Dolphin is the ride comfort. And following the previous official down payment of 19,900 yuan policy, SAIC Volkswagen ID.3 has recently jointly launched the 40th anniversary of the outstanding "trench" gift upgrade policy with China Merchants Bank, which further reduces the threshold for car purchase and the cost of car maintenance, and the cost performance is highlighted, Xiaobian is more inclined to choose SAIC Volkswagen ID.3. (Please consult your local dealer for details of financial policies)