The selection is divided into five categories, namely, world car of the year, world luxury car, world performance car, world city car and world car design of the year, among which world car of the year is the highest honor. Next, let's see who they are.
World Fengyun Automobile of the Year
In the end, the top honors of the annual World Fengyun Automobile Award were Kyat Ryder and Japanese Mazda. Mazda? CX-30. Among them, Qiyate LyRyder has not been introduced into the domestic market, but Mazda and Mazda 3, the biggest winners of this series, have been updated and listed in China, and another CX-30 also has the opportunity to appear in the domestic market.
The first is the new Mazda 3, which went on sale last September. At first glance, it doesn't change much, but many details have been adjusted to make the whole car look more luxurious and sporty. The new matrix air intake grille has a wider shape and chrome-plated decoration runs through the whole front face. If compared with the previous generation, you will find that the new car is obviously more stretched.
The new Mazda 3 has a body size of 4662/ 1797/ 1445mm and a wheelbase of 2726 mm Compared with the previous generation, the length has increased by 193mm and the wheelbase has increased by 26 mm.
The whole interior is also a simple design style. Chrome-plated decoration, leather stitching and the center console above have three layers of horizontal visual effects, and there is no extra decoration in the whole interior. According to Mazda's official statement, this can make you better immersed in driving.
Unfortunately, it is not equipped with the domestic SkyActiv-X engine, but in fact, the main reason for entering the annual car is from this engine. It is reported that the highest thermal efficiency of this engine has reached 43%, and it is also the first engine close to the 45% mark in the history of gasoline engine development. The ultra-thin mixed gas combustion with the mass ratio of fuel to air (or gas containing waste gas) of 30-40 can be realized. Compared with the general gasoline engine whose theoretical air-fuel ratio is 14.7, this engine can burn more than twice the lean mixture, thus improving the thermal efficiency, and the CO2 emitted by the engine is reduced by about 30% compared with the current engine.
World luxury car, world city car
Mercedes-Benz EQC, Porsche 9 1 1 and Porsche Taycan were finally shortlisted for the global luxury cars. It should be noted here that luxury car brands mostly come from Europe and used to be the measure of "car of the year" selection. But they are obsessed with internal combustion engines, and now they have to put two new energy vehicles into the luxury car category. Three models on the list are currently on sale in China.
The final finalists of the world city car are: Kia Soul? EV, MINI-E, Volkswagen T-Cross. At present, only Volkswagen T-Cross is officially put on the market. Similar to the luxury car selection, two seats in the top three selected models were given to new energy vehicles.
It is worth mentioning that in the previous European annual car selection, Tesla Model? 3 impressively in the column. From Tesla's list, coupled with the previous "emission gate" incidents of many car companies, we can see that Europe has reached a certain node in the pursuit of the ultimate gasoline and diesel engines, and then they will strive for industrial transformation and keep up with the times. Move closer to electrification.
Not long ago, Musk issued a document saying that the world's fourth super factory built in Berlin, Germany, is still under construction even in the case of epidemic, which shows the determination of Europe to transform electrification.
World performance car
The final finalists for the world performance car are: Porsche 7 18? Spyder/Cayman？ GT4, Porsche 9 1 1, Porsche Taycan. In this group, Porsche beat other competing models overwhelmingly, sweeping the top three. At present, all three models are sold in China.
Porsche's selection of the best performance car actually stems from the paranoia of global evaluation standards. Because the overseas automobile market (Europe, North America) started earlier, they have more say in judging standards. In the field of performance vehicles, emerging new energy vehicles are actually faster and stronger everywhere, but why not choose them?
The reason is that the automobile power that first formulated the evaluation standard thinks that the evaluation of a car comes from the "three big parts" of the car, and the importance of the "three big parts" of the engine, chassis, gearbox and performance car goes without saying.
World design model of the year
The finalists of the annual world automobile design are Mazda 3, Peugeot 208 and Porsche Taycan. From the above list, it is not difficult to find that Mazda 3 from Japan and Tycan from Germany can be said to be the biggest winners in this selection.
However, other car brands, such as BMW, Cadillac, Toyota and Land Rover, did not appear on the list, which was quite unexpected. In addition, the top three five-series models have 15 seats, of which new energy vehicles occupy 6 seats, nearly half. It can be seen that the global market is very optimistic about the prospect of new energy vehicles, which is considered to be one of the development trends of future vehicles.
At this point, a question arises.
Why is there no domestic car on the list?
"If you fall behind, you will be beaten."
193 1 year, Stalin said this sentence for the first time in a speech about the task of economic workers. Then the outbreak of World War II made China people deeply realize the truth of this sentence. In fact, this sentence applies not only to the strength of various countries, but also to the supremacy of automobile brands in various countries.
In the history of automobile development in the past hundred years, overseas markets have occupied a dominant position, so they have the ability and right to formulate "rules". As mentioned above, this standard is called "three big parts", the engine, chassis and gearbox of a car. Today, judging a car in this way is still considered as "truth" by most people.
However, times have changed. Although China automobile market started late, after years of rapid development, it has become the largest single automobile market in the world, and its own brands have also made rapid progress during this period. Today's domestic cars are far from this.
In fact, it can be seen from the annual car selection of the world that domestic cars are still not recognized by the world. Why?
Because the old automobile market represented by Europe and North America has dominated the rules for many years with its right to speak in the field of internal combustion engines. However, in recent years, due to the "new four modernizations" concept of electrification, intelligence, networking and sharing, the field of electric vehicles has been vigorously developed. But this part of the field is a bit strange to the old car giants.
Some people grab the "rice bowl" and grab the right to speak. It is naturally necessary to be nervous. However, the head enterprises with profound qualifications do not want to agree with the viewpoint of "latecomers" in an attempt to compete with them, and technologies such as small-displacement turbocharging and ultra-high compression ratio engines have come into battle.
However, under the pressure of increasingly strict emission standards and the "emission gate" incident, we have to agree with the development direction of marching into new energy sources. As a result, Mercedes-Benz launched EQ series, and Audi launched e-tron, BMW I series, Volkswagen I.D and other projects. ..
In this way, the rules originally made by them were completely broken. The engine performance that fuel vehicles pay attention to is not difficult to complete in electric vehicles; The gearbox performance of the original fuel vehicle can be completely ignored when it comes to electric vehicles without gears; Finally, the chassis. Now it is obviously more important to achieve L-level intelligence and driver assistance system in the car, and modular production is to reduce and then reduce the chassis differences of the same brand and platform models.
The traditional "three big things" seem to be unimportant, but "three electric systems, intelligence and cruising range" are the three issues that people are most concerned about at present.
Giant car companies that have long been used to being "leaders" naturally do not want to see the right to speak that has dominated for more than 100 years. Now they are handing over. They hope to keep their position after their transition period. So I chose to turn a blind eye to the products produced by the world's largest single automobile market and the world's largest new energy market.
However, China is already the largest automobile market in the world. With the top-down industrial chain layout of the automobile industry and the established development idea of "new four modernizations" in line with the future trend, domestic cars have the ability to re-formulate the "rules".
As the saying goes: "Laugh at the sky and go out. Are we Artemisia people? " I believe that in the near future, what we are discussing is not why domestic cars can't be listed, but how can overseas brands be listed?
This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.