There are some things you may not believe when you say them, but they are facts.
Why there is this feeling, is because recently there is a post-90s little brother ready to buy a starter family car, the budget is about 150,000 yuan, the core appeal is economic and practical (oil prices are a little high, fuel saving is still a must), if you can have a sense of sports it is better.
From the budget point of view, it is easy to think of two cars, Honda Civic and Buick Veyron Pro GS, the brand is reasonable, the reputation is also good, and the models on sale are also a new generation model that was launched last year.
May see here, I believe that there must be many people will naturally say: want to exercise, but also want to save fuel then choose civic, aside from performance, Japanese cars are more fuel-efficient.
In fact, it turns out that I also have such a preconceived habit that I feel that there will be no problem in becoming a consensus. But after experiencing some things, I gradually realized a truth: consensus is not equal to facts. Therefore, I also inquired about fuel consumption under the premise that "Civic should be more fuel efficient".
Whoever has the most credible fuel consumption or the most reference value must be the owner. Query fuel consumption, generally I will go to bear fuel consumption to see, there are real car owners, and there are enough "car owner samples" to be very close to the real fuel consumption data.
To be fair, we chose two models with very close sample sizes and both equipped with 1.5T turbocharged engines, namely the Civic Power Control Edition and the Veyron Pro GS Wind Chaser Edition.
The sample size of the Civic Dynamic Control Edition is 45, the mileage is 143143 kilometers, and the fuel consumption is 7.76 liters/100 kilometers. The Veyron Pro GS Wind Chaser has a sample size of 49, a mileage of 124787 km and a fuel consumption of 7.39 l/100 km. In comparison, it can be found that the real fuel consumption of the owner of the Veyron Pro GS Wind Chasing Edition is lower than that of the Civic Dynamic Control Edition.
To be honest, this result was indeed a bit unexpected to me - more importantly, the 1.5T engine on the Veyron was higher in power than the Civic's 1.5T engine, and it is reasonable to say that the Fuel Consumption of veyron will be higher - but this data is the average of real car owners, and the facts are good at eloquence.
Later, looking more deeply, Buick has had a very obvious fuel saving effect since it launched its products equipped with CVT gearboxes in 2018. The reason why consumers have the high fuel consumption of Buick models is mainly due to the influence of the previous 6AT gearbox.
For example, the 2014 model equipped with a 1.6L+6AT power system consumes about 9.5 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers, but the 2014 Honda Civic is equipped with a 1.8L+5AT gearbox, and the fuel consumption per 100 kilometers is about 8 liters. The Larger Range of Thoughts consumes less fuel than the Smaller Range, which seems to be a strong proof that "Japanese cars consume less fuel".
In fact, in the automotive circle, there are many "pseudo-real" views similar to Buick's high fuel consumption and low Japanese fuel consumption. For example, a large number of so-called Ashkenazi fans believe that Japanese cars save fuel and drive at high speeds, which is caused by the lightness of the car, so the safety of Japanese cars is poor, and this concept is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Buying a car and pressing steel plates and listening to the sound of closing the door to judge whether the car is safe or unsafe was once a "must kill" for many people when buying a car. However, with the "intervention" of third-party auto safety crash tests, auto safety has become an "index" that can be seen and touched.
At the end of 2019, SAIC Volkswagen Passat bent the A-pillar 90° in the 25% bias crash test of China Insurance Research Institute, and the displacement of the steering column caused the airbag to be unable to "catch" the driver's head at all, causing the driver's head to come into direct contact with the left instrument panel. To this day, the Passat is still the worst performing model in the 25% bias crash test of The China Insurance Research Institute, and there is no one. The myth of Ashkenazi safety was "shattered" in the collision.
In contrast, the Japanese Camry, Accord, Tianlai and other models performed quite perfectly in the 25% crash test, and all received G ratings (passats are the worst P).
Nowadays, with the deep penetration of the crash test standards and tests of China Insurance Research Institute, consumers' cognition of automobile safety has also shifted from the "pseudo-science" of whether the steel plate is thick or not, to the rational true science of whether the structural design is reasonable and whether the steel plate is high-strength steel.
For most people, the attributes of the car are means of transportation, and safety, economy and stability remain key factors. For how to choose a satisfactory car, more often do not listen to those "more agreed views", it is best to ask the trusted friends around you, or ask the owner of the car.
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