Not long ago, the Volvo S60 announced the sale price of the car, although the prices of some 287,000 since the high side, but did not use the strategy XC40 Starter Edition down the price of a three-cylinder 1.5T, but the whole system standard 2.0T engine, wait for a lot of riders, this is undoubtedly regarded as a good news.
but when you see it in Xinjiang brother Starter Edition of engine data, but it was a bit awkward because of this Volvo called housekeeping the magic of the 2.0T engine, the maximum power actually only burst out of 120KW, in terms of horsepower just 163Ps, this is what concept? For example: known as “Buddha cars stands for” Lexus ES200, it is the 2.0L naturally aspirated engine has a maximum horsepower 173Ps. In contrast, weak chicken dynamic Volvo S60, really there is no row face at all.
but in fact such an operation, Volvo is not the only one, like Audi, BMW, also have high and low power in such a 2.0T engine strategy. Audi’s that last October the market, Audi sold 286,800 A4L35 TF SI aggressive country VI edition, 2.0T engine maximum horsepower it with only 150, and 1.4T quite popular. Data so weak, that someone dubbed as the turbo fan, to achieve “turbo decompression” a.
BMW just launched on the market in November, the BMW 320i, 2.0T engine maximum horsepower employed only 156, slightly better than the Audi’s so a little bit. And this seems to contrast, low-power Volvo S60 2.0T, did not seem so unbearable.
looked at the three operations, a lot of people will ask, how luxury brands are now beginning to push biased in favor of such a low-power 2.0T engine it? Of course, the reason is very complex, in addition affected by environmental regulations, and also to research and development costs, consumer attitudes and other factors. So many reasons today to pick the two main Colombian border to chat.
One is starting price of the vehicle down to reduce costs. Low-power engine to highlight the differences between versions, thereby driving down the price of the vehicle from which point I believe we can all understand. But when it comes to cost, then everyone a bit confused, larger displacement turbocharged engines should not cost more fishes it? Unit price from the engine point of view, is indeed the case. When considering the huge but with two engines, a new small-displacement engine to be developed, tested, installed, match on the new models of the cost, you will find that the cost of small-displacement engine equipped models is not low.
If that small cars can be sold, to earn back the cost of research and development, then it is naturally less costly, but unfortunately equipped with the power of small-displacement engine models not selling well. Like Audi A4L 1.4T engine version, and can only sell dozens a month, so flat down cost is very high. Harvesting and not directly proportional to pay, the manufacturers are reluctant to natural, common parts version rather low (e.g., a cylinder, grinding and the like), to reduce costs.
The second is the current media environment, the number of multi-cylinder, large displacement easier access to consumer recognition. Triplex, yet the prevalence of small-displacement engine, jitter, fault, preservation and other issues has not been a clear conclusion, therefore there are many riders still persist: the number of cylinders of that dignity, the displacement of both justice! When (major premise) prices are pretty, people are more willing to accept, after all, more than the number of cylinders, displacement of large power, even if it’s worse parameters.
Of course, the idea of which hold consumers, there are a lot of people are thinking about buying a low-power engine, painted by brush ECU high power, do more with less. But Jiang brother to remind you that, in fact, this is not feasible, because in addition to the brush outside the ECU will affect the vehicle warranty, but also because it may lead to shortened engine life of the vehicle.
After all, not all low-power engine manufacturers ReleaseWhen only the adjustment of the ECU, some manufacturers will replace the material crankshaft of the engine parts, like piston rod set to a low level, and into the exhaust duct, to adjust the spark plug accordingly. Indeed affect the whole body, to the modified version costs might as well buy a high power.