This year's auto market is sluggish, the chip shortage coupled with the impact of "black swans", from the sales data of major car companies and brands, it shows everything, which is also testing the viability of major brands. This year's "sales winter" in the automotive industry has a more obvious impact on joint venture brands. In the face of the sluggish market environment, coupled with the price advantage of independent brands, many other factors are affected. For example, joint venture brands such as Hyundai, Kia and Chevrolet from the United States have obviously declined significantly compared with previous years.
However, there are also brands that are rising against the current in the cold winter of this year's automobile market, like Volkswagen from the German system, and the monthly sales of many products of Honda, Toyota and Nissan in japan can be "among the best" in the same level of models. The advantage of the Japanese "two fields and one production" is that the fuel economy is excellent, and when the oil price of 92 this year "broke 7", their advantages are more prominent; and Volkswagen has a "preconceived" time advantage because it enters China earlier than most joint venture brands, plus some of Volkswagen's products have now adopted the "price for volume" approach to enhance their market competitiveness, such as Santana, which is a car that has entered several models. The decline is in the range of 28,000 to 35,000, and it has also achieved certain results, with sales reaching 58,000 units in the past six months. We take its 2021 1.5L manual comfort version as an example, and it has reached 65,800 underground in the domestic part. Volkswagen Santana is positioned in a 5-seat compact sedan, emissions in line with the National VI standard, then this Santana as Volkswagen's current "cheapest" entry-level sedan, is it worth the bottom? Please follow this article to take a look.
The 2021 Santana body size length 4475mm width 1706mm height 1469mm wheelbase is 2603mm, luggage compartment volume is 466L, rear seats do not support reclining. When the passenger with a height of 1.74 meters sits in the back leg with 1 punch and 2 fingers free, and the head has a punch free, the spatial expression is decent in the same class. Configuration aspects, such as: day running lights, LED far and near lights, rear exhaust air outlet, reversing image, keyless start, sorry! It doesn't. Let's take the 2021 1.5L Manual Comfort Edition as an example, down to 65,800, so what does he have? There are: halogen far / low beam, headlight height adjustment, in-car air conditioning / pollen filtration, engine start and stop, tire pressure alarm, front main passenger seat airbag, ESP body stability system, 2 speakers, front row 1 USB power interface, the configuration level can only be said to be barely enough.
Power performance, the whole series is equipped with a 1.5L multi-point EFI naturally aspirated engine with a model of DLF, the maximum power is 82kw (112Ps), the maximum torque is 145 Nm, the transmission system provides a 5-speed manual or 6-speed automatic transmission, according to the different models, zero hundred acceleration is in the range of 12.6 seconds -13.5 seconds, the power is not dominant compared to the domestic models of the same level, but it is not without advantages, its victory is stable in engine quality and fuel saving, After all, this engine is installed under many models of Volkswagen, with an installed capacity of more than one million vehicles, so the durability has been tested by the market and time, and the fuel consumption of manual transmission 100 kilometers is 6L, and the fuel consumption of automatic transmission 100 kilometers is 6.5L. The chassis is a common McPherson-style independent suspension + longitudinal arm twisting beam non-independent suspension combination at this price point.
From the above introduction, we have a general understanding of the sub-low model of the 2021 Santana, space, appearance, power can only be regarded as decent, if you just got a driver's license to practice or use it for daily transportation, he is basically competent, if you feel that the appearance is not in place, then you can understand his new generation of Santana final drawings, new design. From the official exposure of the picture we can see that the new car is more low than the current model, and at the same time, there are multiple lines on the hood to enhance the sense of strength of the front of the car, and the tail is designed with segmented LED taillights, which is more exquisite than the light group of the current model. The interior is changed from the original mosaic central control screen to a suspension central control design, the current series has not provided LCD dashboards, see the rendering, this time should be expected to launch an LCD dashboard, to the same level of domestic car configuration alignment.