Hello everyone, I'm Xiao Li. Some people choose to buy Toyota, some people choose to buy Volkswagen, those who buy Toyota say that Toyota is fuel-efficient, and those who buy Volkswagen say that Volkswagen is safe, if we want to buy a fuel-efficient and worry-free family car, is it better to buy Toyota or Volkswagen? As a senior driver, I will explain this problem to you at one time today. If you are still struggling with the fact that I want to buy a fuel-efficient and worry-free family car, whether I want to buy a Toyota or a Volkswagen, then this article will definitely be able to help you.
- In terms of fuel consumption
In fact, whether it is Toyota's car or Volkswagen's car, although the two brands are in different directions, their goal is the same for low-end cars positioned as families, that is, to save fuel and worry. I used to think that Volkswagen's cars were fuel-efficient, at least one or two more than Toyota. But after coming into contact with Volkswagen's car, I realized that I had been slapped in the face.
I used to take a Volkswagen taxi, which was a Jetta model. I asked the taxi driver, why don't you worry about fuel consumption when you drive this kind of taxi in Volkswagen, Toyota's car is used as a taxi, isn't the fuel consumption lower? As a result, the old driver who drove the taxi told me that his car was changed to burn gas for more than two cents per kilometer, if it was not changed, the oil price was about 3 cents at that time, in fact, it was not very fuel-efficient, and Toyota's car was not this fuel consumption?
Toyota I have been driving for 9 years, is a relatively old car owner, I know best, take the Toyota Vios I drive, then it and the Jetta is a positioning model, my Toyota Vios is also a manual transmission, I drove for 9 years, when the oil price was low, it was also about three cents on 1 km, and the Jetta was also about three cents on 1 km, so the Volkswagen and Toyota's low-end car, it is actually the same fuel consumption. Even the fuel consumption of the popular Toyota Corolla and Volkswagen Lavida is not much different, and the following is the fuel consumption data I found about these two cars.
As you can see in the above data, the same 1.2T displacement car, Toyota's Corolla 100 kilometers fuel consumption is 7.01L on average, 1.2T Lavida crowd test data is relatively small and can not be used as a reference, and 1.4T Lavida 100 kilometers of fuel consumption on average is also 6.99L, from which it can be seen that Toyota and Volkswagen positioning family cars, in fact, fuel consumption is about the same.
- In terms of vehicle stability
Volkswagen and Toyota's low-end scooters are not bad, can you say that Toyota's car is still there for three generations, but have you found that Volkswagen's coaches are old, and now there are still many of them are still those boxy Santana? However, due to the dry dual-clutch transmission and EA211 engine used by Volkswagen are prone to problems in the later stage, so the three major parts of Volkswagen as a whole are not as worry-free as Toyota, Toyota's car as long as you maintain it normally, basically 200,000 kilometers without overhaul, but Volkswagen's car depends on luck.
In fact, the quality of the two brands of cars in other aspects is almost the same, and the low-profile models are also reduced to the extreme, to put it bluntly, there are three major pieces with a car body, and there are too few bad places, so the quality stability is about the same. When it comes to high-end models, they are all electronic devices, whether it is Toyota or Volkswagen, as long as the electronic equipment is used more, it is inevitable that there will be some small problems. A friend of mine who repairs cars also told me before that the quality of the current joint venture cars is about the same, and everyone is using the electronic equipment that is prone to small problems, so there is nothing to worry about, and you can buy whichever you like.
- Security aspect
Volkswagen's safety is better than Toyota's, which is recognized by everyone, there is nothing to talk about this, but it does not mean that Toyota's car does not have safety, it should have a safety configuration, but in some aspects that we can't see, it has been reduced. For example, many people complained about Toyota's poor materials and thin skin, which is really different in Volkswagen, Volkswagen's cars are indeed much tougher than Toyota's, but in fact, these are all visible places, invisible places such as high-strength steel materials are the most affecting safety, if you care about this problem very much, then you can close your eyes and buy Volkswagen.
In general, whether it is Toyota or Volkswagen, it is like Lavida Corolla, its fuel consumption is not very different, but because Toyota also has a hybrid dual-engine version of the model, the fuel consumption of this model is much lower than that of Volkswagen. If you want to buy a fuel-efficient car and accept the shortcomings of Toyota, then Toyota is a perfect car for you. But if you can't accept Toyota's shortcomings, you still pay more attention to safety, then you can't go wrong to buy a Volkswagen car, and Volkswagen it also has an advantage, its chassis tuning is much better than Toyota, driving a Volkswagen car, you will feel that the chassis is very solid, but if you drive a Toyota car, you will feel that the chassis bounces very strongly, not very comfortable, this is the main difference.
So, it is still a matter of opinion which car to buy, some people like Toyota, some people like Volkswagen. As long as you like to buy it with your eyes closed, these two cars are relatively well-known brands, and basically you won't lose money.