According to statistics, the per capita disposable income of Chinese in 2021 is about 35,000 yuan, which means that if you buy a car according to the standard of "annual salary", many people can only choose Wuling Hongguang MINIEV. Although there is a saying that "first seeks to have and then seek good", in the automotive field, due to the existence of second-hand cars, "have" and "good" have become a non-conflicting thing! Therefore, let's take the 20,000 yuan budget as the standard to see what good cars can be found in today's used car market!
Before 2011, Haval H6 has not been listed, not to become a hit, at that time the Great Wall brand strategy or multi-line development, to try as many different types of models as possible, while the method is also very simple and rough, that is, which Japanese car sells well, I will learn to build a try! So in the field of MPV, Great Wall launched this model called V80. Unlike other models under the Great Wall at that time that were easy to find "borrowing elements", the V80 was highly original at first glance, but this was only because the Toyota Noah it borrowed did not enter the country...
Toyota Noah
With almost the same appearance, size, and exactly the same wheelbase as Toyota Noah, the Great Wall V80 is born with a strong JDM temperament. What's more interesting is that the V80 even has the same displacement as the Toyota Noah, which is 2.0L naturally aspirated. However, unlike the original Toyota Noah using 1AZ-FSE, the Great Wall V80 uses a 4G63 engine from Mitsubishi. The automatic version is 143 hp, while the manual is only 133 hp, 2 to 12 hp less than the original 1AZ-FSE. Later, the Great Wall replaced the V80 with its own 1.5T engine, and the horsepower was exactly the same as the 2.0L engine.
Top: Toyota Noah Down: Great Wall V80
The interior pedigree of the Great Wall V80 is equally pure, and the mid-positioned instrument panel can be seen at a glance as Toyota's design in the early 21st century. The center console and air outlet area below are even almost identical to the Toyota Noah. While the practice of "borrowing" is not advisable, it also brings a big advantage to the V80, that is, the flexibility of the internal space is very good. When the two and three rows are reversed, the square box with a length of only 4.65 meters can instantly show super space utilization and loading capacity like a JDM van.
Nowadays, the second-hand price of the Great Wall V80, which has been listed for nearly 10 years, has been very cheap, and it is possible to buy models using 2.0L or 1.5T engines for less than 20,000 yuan. For JDM fans who need to make a living through a large loading space, the Great Wall V80 is indeed an irreplaceable good car!
If I tell you that 20,000 yuan can buy a sports car, I am afraid that many people will think of the Geely Beauty Leopard, right? But in fact, now 20,000 yuan can really buy a good sports car, and it is still imported, it is hyundai in 2004 introduced domestic cool! Although the price of Coolpad is now very cheap, the pure sports car shape and two-door design, even if the time has come to 2022, it is still more eye-catching than Xuanyi and Corolla!
However, the modern Coolpad does not use the usual driving form of sports cars, and old readers should be able to see at a glance from its short L113 (front axle to firewall) distance that it is a front-drive car. The reason why this sports car uses the front-drive form is mainly because the Hyundai Group at that time could not come up with any decent rear-drive platform, so it simply used the Elantra chassis. It is also because of the ordinary family car platform, so its driving experience is not much different from the Familiar Elantra taxi, and it does not provide sharp handling like the purebred sports car of the Toyota 86.
Fortunately, it is gratifying that Coolpad has opened a big gap with the 1.6L engine Ilantra in terms of power, it provides two engines of 2.0L four-cylinder and 2.7L V6, the maximum power is 143, 165 horsepower, with a 4AT gearbox, 0-100km/h acceleration is 10.5 seconds and 8.5 seconds, of which the performance of the 2.7L V6 is reasonable today. Nowadays, whether it is 2.0L or 2.7L version, the second-hand price is about 20,000 yuan, but the age of the car about 15 years and the emission of the country 3 will also make it subject to certain restrictions on the road in the first and second-tier cities, so this car is more suitable for some friends who are far away from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis and like the sports car style to choose.
In addition to the 20,000 yuan can buy two imported sports cars, the "imported" luxury car can also be bought, which is the MG MG7 from Nanjing Automobile. In 2005, Nanjing Motor acquired MG Rover, a British automobile company abandoned by BMW, and established Nanjing MG Automobile Co., Ltd. However, because NANQI did not have much rich funds at that time, it did not establish a new production line after the acquisition of MG, but directly moved the British MG production line to Nanjing, and used the production line to produce a domestic version called MG ZT in the Uk - MG7. In 2007, the domestic MG7 was listed, priced at 171,800-302,800 yuan.
Since the production line of MG7 was moved directly from Birmingham, England to Nanjing, the pedigree of MG7 is significantly more pure than that of Roewe 750, which purchased drawings. The British-inspired cigar body is paired with the original MG Logo, which makes the MG7 have a bit of a British luxury car style, and when I saw this car on the road, I couldn't help but pay attention to it. However, due to the fact that the quality of the British car is really difficult to say, so the quality of the MG7 using the "original" British production line is naturally not much better, and the various strange faults that appear after the listing have also led to the absurdly low retention rate of this car, when the residual value of the 3-year-old car has fallen to 40%, and the residual value of the 5-year-old car is less than 30%. More than ten years have passed, and this British model car, which used to sell for 200,000 or 300,000 yuan, can now be won in less than 20,000 pieces!
As for the power part, mg7 provided 160 horsepower 1.8T and 184 horsepower 2.5L V6 engines, with 5MT or 5AT gearbox, although the acceleration performance of 10 seconds or so is not fast, but it is not lost to the mainstream grocery shopping cars such as Corolla and Xuanyi. Speaking of MG7, in fact, it also has an unknown cold knowledge, that is, at that time, WHEN NANQI shipped the British production line back to China, it also brought back many spare parts that were not used up in the British market, so in some domestic commercially available MG7 models, we will see that some domestic configuration tables do not have, but have been provided in the British market configuration, such as the full black leather sports seat in the picture above. So if you can see this "wrong version" MG7 in the second-hand car market, it will be a more collectible version, after all, these british original parts also carry the history of NANC's acquisition of MG.
Suzuki Happy Prince
Friends after the 80s and 90s should be familiar with the name "Alto", although the size of this car is small and pitiful, but the price of only 30,000 yuan in the early 21st century has also made it the first car of many Chinese families, and the title of "Happy Prince" can evoke many people's memories. However, the Alto we recommend today is not the "Happy Prince" of the 0.8L three-cylinder engine that has become a sentiment car, and the second-hand price has even risen to a 0.8L three-cylinder engine that is more expensive than the new car, but the new Alto launched by the late Changan Suzuki in 2009.
Compared with the pure JDM pedigree of "Happy Prince", this new Alto developed by Suzuki in India is not pure in terms of pedigree, but this does not stop it from becoming a good car. The 71-horsepower 1.0L three-cylinder engine is not very powerful, and the time to break the hundred is 13.2 seconds, but with the oversized gear ratio setting in the first few gears and the extremely sensitive throttle adjustment in the early stage, this 3.5-meter long car is still quite fast in the initial acceleration stage! Coupled with the relatively good fuel consumption performance of this small displacement 1.0L engine, it will not make the driver stingy about the depth of pedaling on the throttle, so you will not see this new Alto behind other players when the traffic light "pole start".
At present, the price of new Alto's used cars is mainly concentrated in the range of 10,000-18,000, and the price span of 8,000 blocks is caused by the age of the car. If you have a budget of 20,000, you can buy a model that was licensed around 2015. But if you only have a budget of 10,000 yuan, you can only choose a model around 2010. However, considering the consistently excellent quality of Alto, the long age of the car will not cause too much trouble to later use.
Screenshot of the 007: Casino Royale movie
Recently, Ford released a new generation of Mondeo, but now that times have changed, many consumers have completely forgotten about the Mondeo model when buying a car. But if we turn the clock back to 2007, this B-class car developed by The Ford R&D Center in Germany for the European market is a household name in the Chinese market. You know, in the "007: Casino Royale" released Chinese mainland January 30, 2007, in addition to the Chinese audience enjoying Daniel Craig's cool and heroic posture, a Ford with an Aston Martin face is still fresh in the memory of Chinese consumers, and it is the Mondeo - Victory that was listed in China half a year later.
Time flies, after 15 years of wind and rain, the price of Mondeo - Zhisheng has fallen from more than 200,000 yuan for new cars at that time to less than 20,000 yuan for second-hand prices. However, the low price does not mean that its strength is no longer what it used to be. After all, the 160-horsepower 2.3-liter naturally aspirated engine from Mazda is notoriously leather-resistant. At the same time, the 6AT gearbox is not as flashy and "sonorous and powerful" as the subsequent dual clutch.
More critically, the Ford R&D Center in Germany has given this generation of Mondeo a strong chassis power, and its excellent handling has made it award-winning, including the automotive circle trophy show "Top Gear" and the annual model award of the world's top car magazine "Car and Driver". In other words, you only need to spend 20,000 yuan now to take advantage of this 15-year-old benchmark B-class car, think about it is still a little exciting?
In 2008, French cars were at their peak in China, so Sega launched by Citroën at that time also created a fairly high ownership. With the overall decline of French cars, this benchmark A-class car, which sold for 120,000-140,000 yuan 10 years ago, can now be easily owned with only 20,000 pieces! Although the name "Sega" always sounds like a domestic special car, its real identity is actually the first generation citroën C4. Perhaps worried that the Chinese people could not remember the English name, or to avoid confusion with the Coupe version of C4 that was imported and sold at that time, Dongfeng Citroen finally gave it the same Chinese name as the Sega game console. When it was listed in China, this car not only provided an original hatchback version, but also provided a sedan version according to the preferences of the Chinese people.
The reason why Citroën Sega can be called a benchmark model is mainly because of its ridiculously high cost performance. Sega provides two engines in China, 1.6L and 2.0L, of which the 1.6L engine has only 106 horsepower and accelerates from 0-100km/h in 13 seconds, so the price of used cars today is only about 10,000 pieces. The 2.0L version has 147 horsepower, with a 5MT or 4AT gearbox, it can achieve a hundred-break acceleration performance within 10 seconds. Although this performance may not be worth mentioning today, but more than a decade ago, there are many 2.4L and 2.5L medium-sized cars that cost more than 200,000 yuan and cannot break the performance in 10 seconds! Therefore, this car can also be called performance orientation in that year.
In addition, the 2.0L Sega model is also very well equipped, with multi-disc CDs, power sunroofs, cruise control, mirror heating, ESC seats and automatic air conditioning, all of which are very practical. Because of this, although the second-hand price of the 2.0L version is about 20,000 today than the 1.6L version, it is still a more cost-effective choice. It should be noted that everyone must not take its Legal car identity, and have too many expectations for its control, because Sega is like most French cars sold in China, the suspension stroke and suspension hardness have been "optimized" quite a bit of food, and friends who want to feel the sports potential of the French car will have to modify the suspension in the future!
Compared with the above-mentioned cars, Wuling Hongguang's popularity in China is obviously to complete their explosion. And because most of the owners of Wuling Hongguang are delivery masters or individual shop owners who need to often travel to and from A and B, in order to ensure the efficiency of delivery, they usually drive faster on the road, which makes Wuling Hongguang leave a high-performance car feeling for other road participants. Coupled with its amazing feat of selling 800,000 units a year at its peak, Wuling Hongguang finally won the title of "National God Car", and also became the most well-known model for chinese people after Jetta, Fukang, Santana and Xiali.
Because most car owners will buy Wuling Hongguang for the return of the cost, and will not easily change hands, so even if the price of Wuling Hongguang's new car is about 50,000 pieces, and the amount of ownership is very large, but the price of second-hand cars will not be as "cabbage price" as everyone imagines. For example, a 1.2L Wuling Hongguang in 2010 and 10 years old is now priced at about 13,000 yuan. If it is a 1.5L model in 2013, it needs about 18,000-20,000 to buy it. Of course, if you have the need to pull goods and need to quickly return the cost, then buying a Wuling Hongguang is definitely a good choice, and it will not lose much money after selling it back. Even since Wuling Hiroko adopts a rear-drive layout, you can also drive it in ice and snow weather to enjoy a drift!
After the domestic listing of Mazda 6 in 2004, with its excellent handling, it was known as the "King of Corners", coupled with its avant-garde shape design, this car not only captured the hearts of many consumers, but also became the Dream Car in the hearts of many post-80s at that time. However, the Ma 6, which sold for more than 200,000 yuan that year, was a proper high-end car, after all, the price of more than 200,000 yuan was not something that most ordinary people could consume. But times have changed, and today's second-hand horse 6 has come to a price of 20,000 yuan acceptable to workers, and it is still a 2.3L engine version with outstanding performance! Even if you're lucky enough, it's not impossible to buy a 5-door hatchback coupe version for $20,000!
In terms of performance, the 2.3-liter in-line four-cylinder engine is the same as the aforementioned Mondeo-Zhisheng, but on the Ma 6 it is 3 horses more powerful and reaches 163 horsepower, and the gearbox is also available in 5AT and 6MT. Coupled with the front double wishbone suspension with lateral stabilizer bars, the realistic sense of mechanical hydraulic power steering, and Mazda's superb tuning, this car can still beat most models in terms of driving pleasure even after more than a decade!
If santana and Jetta, which entered China in the 1980s and 1990s, opened up Chinese's original feelings for German cars. Then the Sagittarius launched by FAW-Volkswagen in 2006 is the beginning of the Volkswagen brand in China. Friends who know Sagitar should know that in fact, this car is the 5th generation of Jetta in the German market, but the Jetta sold in China at that time was still the second generation model overseas, and it can still create good sales. In order to avoid infighting, FAW-Volkswagen gave the name "Sagitar" for the domestic 5th generation Jetta. Sagitar used Volkswagen's latest PQ35 platform at that time, which was 20 years more advanced than the old Jetta sold in China! Therefore, Sagitar has a huge lead over the Jetta in terms of texture and handling of the whole vehicle.
Even compared with japanese competitors of the same period, Sagitar's advantages in manufacturing process and driving texture are also very obvious. Because of this, even if the starting price of Sagitar at that time reached 138,800, and the high-end ratio exceeded 200,000, it still could not stop consumers from pursuing it, and even once there was a small increase in price. The birth of Sagitar also made many people understand that the original orthodox German car can have such an excellent texture. In addition, the power configuration of 1.6, 2.0L and 1.8T also allows Sagitar not only to buy vegetables, but also to experience the thrill of a drag racing with the 160-horsepower 1.8T version. And in that era when competitors were still generally using 4AT, Sagitar took the lead in using a 6AT gearbox, which was definitely a symbol of the high-end of the year.
But if you talk about the retention rate, Volkswagen is still a younger brother in front of the Japanese "two fields", more than ten years have passed, the 1.8T version that landed as high as 200,000 yuan that year, and the price of today's second-hand cars is only less than 20,000 yuan. So, if you like the original German car, then it is better to consider Sagittarius, after all, its driving texture is also good by today's standards!
If any car can compete with the Sagittarius and Golf 6 at its peak, then the second-generation Fox, once known as the "driver's car", is definitely a well-deserved choice. The second-generation Focus was introduced domestically by Changan Ford in 2005, and the earliest was only a sedan version, equipped with 1.8L and 2.0L engines, priced at 12.98-16.58 million yuan, which was cheaper than sagittarius in the same period. Since Ford had not yet "broken up" with Mazda at that time, The Focus also used the same chassis as the Mazda 3 and was developed by Ford's German R&D center. Because of this, the Fox has both the sportiness of the Mazda and the texture of a German car. Coupled with the very rare large slipback design of that year, Fox did capture the hearts of many young people.
However, this American car born in Germany and using a Japanese chassis is not very good in terms of quality, various small problems emerge in an endless stream, fuel consumption is also high, although these do not affect driving, but it is indeed a torture to the owner's mentality, so its used car price is also much lower than the Mazda 3 on the same platform. Among them, the most representative 2.0L manual sports version, the second-hand price is only about 20,000 yuan! 141 horsepower + 5-speed manual transmission, although zero hundred acceleration is only more than 9 seconds of level, but the driving experience of the combination of people and cars, has been able to let you fully appreciate the depth of the Ford brand of sports skills!
In 2006, SAIC-GM introduced a new LaCrosse in the United States to replace the century, and designed the appearance according to the aesthetic of Chinese. With a length of 5 meters, a width of 1.85 meters, and Buick's brand appeal in China at that time, this medium-sized car with a minimum landing price of 250,000 at that time became the car of many small and accomplished businessmen. It is precisely because most of the owners are businessmen, so ordinary people at that time saw this car, more or less showed some respect.
In addition to looking at the face, this generation of LaCrosse is also very conscientious in terms of power, which is equipped with a very rare all-aluminum 2.4L naturally aspirated engine at that time, with a maximum power of 168 horsepower. In addition, LaCrosse also offered a V6 version like many mid-size cars of the year. However, because the technology of the 3.0L V6 is far inferior to that of the 2.4L engine, its maximum horsepower is only 176 horses, which is only 8 horses larger than the 2.4L version. In terms of gearbox, both engines are matched with a 4-speed manual transmission.
Thanks to its status as an orthodox American car, the suspension of this generation of LaCrosse has a very high degree of comfort, whether it is a big bump or a small vibration, it can be easily dissolved with the calm posture of an American ship. And the quality of this original LaCrosse is still very good, so good that it doesn't look like an authentic American car at all. However, it should be noted that although the length of this car has reached 5 meters, its internal space is far less intimidating than the appearance, which is the current level of ordinary B-class cars. At this point in time in 2022, the second-hand price of the original LaCrosse is already very close to the people, even if it is a 2.4L model with excellent car condition, the price is only about 20,000. Of course, if you are not afraid of costing fuel, you can also spend the same 20,000 yuan to buy the 3.0L V6 version, and at the end of the era of fuel vehicles with four-cylinder turbines everywhere, have a good taste of the six-cylinder self-priming!
After reading this article, I believe that many readers who are not rich at hand have found a better choice than The Hongguang MINIEV, after all, these 11 cars were all good cars in the era of their birth. Of course, I also know that many of my friends have not been exposed to older used cars, so they have not built trust. But if we look at the old cars in our own homes that have been driving for more than a decade, aren't they still serving us as diligently as they are now? So for the elderly second-hand cars, as long as they are not born with quality design defects, in the later stage, we only need to spend a little money to clean up and make them glow for the second spring, fun and easy to drive, and when selling cars, they can't lose a few money, which is indeed a good choice for young people.