At the beginning of today's program, I talked about the Shanghai Auto Show. The proportion of fuel vehicles in this auto show is even smaller. The major joint venture brands that once occupied the absolute C position are generally dumb. On the contrary, all kinds of new energy vehicles in China are overwhelming and varied, and joint venture brands still lack sincere and powerful new energy vehicles.

Then I will talk about two luxury high-performance wagons, the Audi S4 Avant, which was pre-sold only a few months ago, and the new Mercedes-Benz C43 Travel Edition, which was unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show. /kloc-There are only three high-performance fuel station wagons within 0/100,000. Apart from these two 500,000-700,000 cars, there are only nearly one million left in the Audi RS4.

What kind of car is S4 Avant?

This car needs no introduction at all. The original factory is 354 HP /500 Nm, the 3.0T V6 engine code is EA839, 8AT gearbox, and the serious mechanical four-wheel drive system ... Everyone is too familiar with the Audi S4, which is the most cost-effective six-cylinder performance car, but S4 Avant just has a station wagon butt more than S4.

Let's talk about the market of this car. I have a friend who works in Audi 4S shop. He also attended an internal training meeting in Jiaxing last week and showed off a blue S4 Avant on the spot. The current known price of this car is the pre-sale price of 530,000 announced at the end of last year.

Moreover, my friends told me that until today, they have received very few orders. Even if they book a car, they only dare to accept the customer's deposit of 20,000 yuan, and they can return it at any time, because they are not optimistic about the sales of this car, mainly for two reasons:

One is the price.

At present, the guiding price of S4 is 488,800 yuan, and after discount, the naked car is around 465,438+0.5 million yuan, and even in some places it is only 400,000 yuan. Turn around and look at S4 Awang. Now that it is sold at the original price, the price difference is directly as high as100000 yuan. Unless you are crazy about the shape of the station wagon, there is really no reason to spend this money. After all, the station wagon is the representative of "you must buy it when you come out" and "you must buy it next time" after you come out.

The second is replacement.

Now the news about A4 replacement is overwhelming. After the new A4 comes out, derivative models like S4, S4 Avant and RS4 will follow suit, and even spy photos of the next generation S4 Avant will come out. At present, this generation of S4 Avant has been sold abroad for a long time, and it has not been introduced to China until now. If you start at this time, the high probability is to help Audi clear its inventory.

What kind of car is the C43 Travel Edition?

Compared with S4 Avant, this new C43 Travel Edition is of epoch-making significance, because it represents the first time that AMG's 43 series has reached elegance, and the engine was finally signed by AMG engineers.

One person, one machine

Anyone familiar with AMG knows that AMG is a high-performance sub-brand of Mercedes-Benz. This brand used to have a feature. The engine is a high-performance vehicle developed by ourselves and assembled by engineers. When it is finished, it will stick its nameplate on the engine, which is euphemistically called "one person, one machine". In fact, this process is not that high, but putting the work of several people on one person is the proper behavior of capitalism.

Last generation C43 Travel Edition

For a long time, AMG mainly has two series. One is the 63 series that focuses on V8 and strives to create miracles, such as C63；; The second is the 45 series featuring the strongest four-cylinder engine on the surface, such as A45. One person, one machine, without exception. It was not until 16 that the 43 series appeared, and the engine developed by AMG was not used. On the contrary, Mercedes-Benz's six-cylinder grocery shopping machine was stripped from the then S-class and GLE and stuffed into the C-class and GLC. At first, it was called C450 and GLC450. Later, it was urgently classified as AMG because of poor sales, and eventually it became C43 and GLC43.

First generation 43 series

Although the lineage is not pure, there is nothing wrong with the 43 series. In essence, it is aimed at BMW's M performance and Audi's S series, except that BMW's M performance does not belong to M, Audi's S does not belong to RS, and the 43 series belongs to AMG. So at that time, the old AMG car owners were unwilling and quarreled for several years. It was not until the 35 series with lower positioning appeared that 43 car owners blocked the saliva.

The new generation 43 series has become one person with one machine, and the new C43 Travel Edition is the first car introduced into China by the new generation 43 series. However, at the cost of losing two cylinders, six cylinders became four cylinders, one turbine was lost, and 3.0TT became 2.0T The M276 twin-turbocharged six-cylinder engine that has been eliminated by Mercedes-Benz was replaced by M 139, which is the strongest four-cylinder engine in the 45 series at present. To be exact, it is M 139L, where l stands for vertical position, but the horsepower is castrated, not as big as 45 series.

We won't say much about the appearance. The new C-class has a travel butt, and then there are some sports decorations, such as AMG straight waterfall net. In terms of performance, 408 horsepower, 500 Nm, plus a set of 48V light mixing, additional 14 horsepower, 4.7 seconds to break the hundred, matching 9AT and full-time four-wheel drive, plus adaptive suspension and rear wheel steering.

Compared with the previous generation of six-cylinder C43 travel edition, there seems to be no improvement in power. The previous generation M276 bought food again, and it is old, and it is also a twin-turbo six-cylinder machine. This generation of M 139L was originally a pure explosion, and it was also a single turbine four-cylinder machine. The running texture and low torque performance of the six-cylinder engine are incomparable to those of the four-cylinder engine, especially the four-cylinder engine with super-large turbine, which has very poor power.

Therefore, compared with 45 series M 139L, 43 series M 139L has electronic turbine technology to reduce turbine lag. It is said that the principle is to use 48V optical mixing as power to accelerate the turbine and keep the turbine working all the time to reduce the turbine lag. Moreover, the new generation C63 of Big Brother also uses the same engine, but with a set of 400V hybrid, the acceleration effect of 400V hybrid on the turbine is definitely much stronger than that of 48V light hybrid, which claims to completely solve the turbine lag. Don't argue with the owners of 43 and 63 in the future. Everyone is a four-cylinder slag in the eyes of Audi BMW owners.

Finally, the price. As we all know, BBA pricing will not be reduced due to objective factors such as emission tax, and the price will also be reduced. Now the price has been announced, 696,800, which is tens of thousands more expensive than the previous generation of six cylinders. ...

How to choose two cars?

Rabbit: I choose C43 Travel Edition.

The first is Mercedes-Benz and AMG, so the name alone is even louder.

Furthermore, although it is a 2.0T engine, it has more horsepower. Just like when you play League of Legends, choosing a Teemo to make a single order is also an explosive output. Although Teemo is thin and full of acne, this 2.0T is the feeling.

Finally, if you buy a C43 travel version, you can decorate it with others, especially when others question it. You can just say, Forget it. Who told Mercedes not to launch the C63 travel version? You bought this car not because the budget is not enough, but because you really have no choice.

Chuanyao: I choose S4 Pioneer.

I don't care if S4 Pioneer has RS4. I chose S4 Avant because there are fewer and fewer six-cylinder cars, and the landing price is at least100000. Is this enough?

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