Just when c3c "Jijijing" followed the route of s3c and once again exploded, the Toyota Group's boardroom in Japan was completely silent. In sharp contrast to this absolute silence, there were no less than three people sitting in the entire conference room.
Ten people!
These people have just received the latest news from the UK. They are aware of every development of C3C testing, and they know clearly that this time, Toyota will suffer another setback!
A staff member of the top-gear program group had already reached a private agreement with Toyota and received 20,000 pounds from Toyota as a reward. He used his position to report all the circumstances of the C3C test in the UK to Toyota as soon as possible. And Toyota’s
The board of directors was originally going to discuss the price reduction sales strategy, with less than ten major shareholders participating. However, because Dongchen happened to be undergoing testing in the UK, the board of directors temporarily stopped and summoned several SUV engineers to discuss the matter at any time.
Based on feedback from the UK, we assess the upcoming impact on the Toyota SUV market.
The Japanese often do things one step ahead of others. Even when they are passive, they try to maintain this advantage. At the very least, among the many car manufacturers in the world, only Toyota has made the most efforts on Dongchen.
The understanding is also the most profound.
Toyota President Fujio Zhang was the first to break the strange silence of these dozens of people. He laughed sarcastically, which seemed to be about enjoying the hardships, and said with a smile: "I think the characteristics currently displayed by Dongchen c3c are the ones that are most affected.
It should be Porsche, BMW and others who focus on speed. Speed has never been the main route promoted by Toyota. At present, it seems that the situation is not the worst for us."
The chief designer of Toyota SUV R&D said: "Mr. President, I am not worried about Dongchen's speed. Indeed, as you said, we at Toyota never pursue unnecessary speed in the Toyota series. We pay attention to cost-effectiveness, practicality, and comprehensiveness.
and complete after-sales service, and Lexus has never blindly pursued speed. We focus on luxury and technology. However, what I am most worried about is not the speed of this C3C, but Dongchen’s unique four-wheel drive transmission system."
After that, the chief designer added: "Except for Dongchen, we have the deepest understanding of their four-wheel drive system in the world. We have an S3C sample car in hand and have conducted a very detailed study of this four-wheel drive system.
Research, to be honest, it is too powerful and technologically advanced, and we cannot touch its core technology at all. If this four-wheel drive system is applied to an SUV, in Chinese terms, it will be like a fish in water, so.
What I'm worried about is not the speed of c3c, but its..."
The chief designer paused for a moment when he said this. Zhang Fujio frowned and asked, "Are you worried about the passing ability of C3C?"
"No..." the chief designer said with a look of shame: "What I'm worried about is its comprehensiveness..."
"Comprehensive..." Fujio Zhang also looked dejected.
Yes, comprehensive.
The least scary thing is comprehensiveness. The most scary thing is comprehensiveness.
There are too many so-called comprehensive models on the market, and they are not terrible because they have no focus. No focus means that they are not competitive in their specialized fields. This is why Land Rover, Jeep and the like can compete in the market.
The reason why SUVs dominate the off-road field is also the key to why the Cayenne has always been sought after. However, Dongchen's comprehensiveness is by no means mediocre comprehensive, but the damn top comprehensive.
It has now defeated the Cayenne in terms of speed. In other words, the C3C can dominate in terms of speed, but its passing ability must be unquestionable. After all, its four-wheel drive system is there, powerful enough to make
All four-wheel drive vehicle manufacturers around the world are put to shame, and Dongchen possesses new material technology with extremely high reliability, which means that it has an absolute advantage in at least three aspects: speed, passing ability and reliability.
If an SUV masters these three core advantages, then who else on the market can compete with it?
In the conference room, there was silence again.
A minute later, the president's assistant's computer connected to the projector received an email. The email was sent from his mobile phone. It contained four photos of the c3c from different directions, including front face, rear, side and full body photos.
These four photos were all taken with multi-megapixel mobile phones. Even when displayed on a huge projection screen, they were still clear enough. When everyone saw these four photos, the atmosphere in the conference room dropped to freezing point again.
Beautiful, domineering, and fierce are not words that can be described with a sense of modernity, but with a sense of the future...
Even designers are amazed by it. If this car really comes out, then high-end consumers will almost switch sides, right? Compared with it, the Cayenne, which has always been famous for its appearance, seems to be a product twenty years ago.
The difference between an AE86 and an Audi R8 is like the difference between a Santana and a Mercedes-Benz S series...
Zhang Fujio sighed and said: "I don't care about the rest of the test anymore. Dongchen's victory is inevitable. Let's study the issue of price reduction sales. We previously advocated reducing the profit point by more than 30%.
In order to maintain our market share, it seems that this proportion needs to be expanded again."
...
The c3c has completely humiliated four opponents on Jaguar's test track!
Acceleration and top speed are all dominated by c3c, but in terms of handling, these four cars are still no match.
After integrating air suspension and four-wheel drive power distribution, the central control computer has a better grasp of the car body. In the same curve, the BMW x5m, which has the best handling, reaches a cornering speed of 135 kilometers.
The tire is off the ground, which means that this speed is already its limit.
But the c3c Jijijing really lived up to its name as a Jijijing. It was 170 kilometers and passed smoothly.
In the camera lens, it can be clearly seen that the suspension system of the C3C changed when it entered the corner, and the body began to tilt in the opposite direction of the inertia, thereby increasing the stability of the C3C without having to wait until it exits the corner. Just when the car started to rush into the corner
When the car is completely out of the corner, the suspension has returned to normal.
This kind of control has already surpassed all SUVs and even all civilian cars, and is unmatched.
The program team returned to London to rest for one night. The next day was the highlight of the c3c test - the British tank test site.
The tank travels on crawler tracks, which not only has a large landing area, but also has a very detailed and even power distribution. Its tens of tons of dead weight make its grip on the ground unparalleled, coupled with powerful power. Its passing ability is incredible, and its ability to adapt to extreme road surfaces is also incredible.
Non-civilian vehicles are comparable, so the various extreme road conditions in the tank proving ground are simply a graveyard for civilian vehicles.
It has pits deep enough to submerge the front of a Hummer, steep slopes that a Range Rover cannot climb even if its cylinder is full, and muddy areas where the wheels will sink deep into it. Even an SUV like the Extreme is impossible.
They are qualified for the extreme environment here, and the top-gear program team is relatively pragmatic. They selected some road conditions in a huge venue that can barely be challenged by civilian vehicles to test these five vehicles.
Continuous hills and steep slopes.
The highest peak is a mound more than ten meters high and a valley bottom more than ten meters deep. The highest peak and the lowest valley are connected to form a peak line. Even ordinary light tanks cannot cope with this line, so the program team chose
In order to translate the peak line and avoid the highest peak and lowest valley, the test is only conducted in the buffer zone on one side of the peak line.
The Range Rover, which has great hopes placed on it, drove from a position thirty meters to the right of the peak line. The route was parallel to the peak line, with gentle peaks and gentle slopes. It passed smoothly.
The more comprehensive Touareg also passed smoothly, but its speed was much slower than that of the Range Rover.
If the Cayenne is the grandson of SUVs on the highway, then it is the grandson of SUVs on this kind of road. When climbing the first slope, the chassis was scratched and the grip was insufficient, so it barely drove for three minutes.
One of them, because the uphill angle was too large, he completely collapsed and had to take the road at the bottom of the valley to return to Sanba in embarrassment.
The BMW x5m is still miserable on this kind of road. You can hear the huge roar of the engine, and it feels like an elephant climbing a rock. Although it has enough strength, it just can't cope with it.
In the end, the x5m failed midway and, like the Cayenne, took the bottom road to return.
The last one to be tested was the C3C Extreme. The driving mode was mountain, the suspension was raised, the power output method was changed, the torque was amplified to the extreme by the gearbox, and the speed was decisively abandoned at this time. It was just a mode change.
The latest power distribution is completed, reducing the speed and increasing the torque.
c3c took the same route as the first four opponents. It was very smooth and the speed was three minutes faster than the Range Rover.
It took the Range Rover less than seven minutes to complete the entire distance. The c3c was three minutes faster than it, which means it was twice as fast!
But that’s a Range Rover!
Even Jeremy was hit hard!
He said to the camera with a frustrated face: "Although I admire Dongchen Motors very much, Land Rover, a British brand, has always been my pride. But today, I finally found that Land Rover has been surpassed too many by its opponents on the same route.
, the c3c only took half the time of Land Rover..." At this point, Jeremy became a little hysterical and shouted: "This is a Range Rover! The highest configuration Range Rover! Land Rover, for the sake of God, do something.
What, if this continues, what else are you going to do to attract consumers?! The off-road performance that you are most proud of has been completely defeated by others!"
James May on the side comforted: "Jeremy, now it's just that the c3c is taking the same route, which is a few minutes faster than the Range Rover. Our next step will be to move the route closer to the peak line. Perhaps, we will find a road that only the Range Rover can pass."
route, after all, Range Rover pursues off-road capability, not speed."
Jeremy curled his lips and said: "I hope so, but at present, it seems that the subsequent tests only need three vehicles: Range Rover, C3C and Touareg."
Immediately, the program team moved the route five meters closer to the peak line.
Although it is only a five-meter translation, the peaks on the route are higher and the valleys are deeper, so the difficulty naturally increases exponentially.
This time, the Touareg took the lead, and it was difficult for the Touareg, a car that has always been followed by soy sauce. This car is the only one among the five test cars that sells for less than one million yuan. Its acceleration is only higher than that of the Range Rover.
The top speed is only higher than the Range Rover, and the controllability is the lowest. Now it has to be compared with the top version of the Range Rover, which sells for nearly 3 million yuan, and the c3c, which has an unknown price but is coming with a fierce momentum. Think about it, it is also a standard foil.
Taste.
The road ahead for the Touareg is tortuous and painful. When you see it climbing a hill, with its four wheels spinning continuously, you can't help but feel pity. It's like a race between unknown rivals at a college sports meeting, between a tall, rich and handsome Cayenne and a rich second-hand man.
The modern BMW felt tired and withdrew from the competition at the beginning. The muscular Land Rover and the talented athlete C3C took the lead one after another. The Touareg, who was born in Hong Kong, saw no hope of victory. He was unwilling to quit directly. In order to prove himself, he had no choice but to grit his teeth.
Persevere to the death.
The Touareg drove nearly 70% of the distance, which took more than half an hour. Finally, halfway up the next steep slope, the Touareg could no longer find grip. The driver tried for a long time, and kept banging on the accelerator.
A large amount of exhaust gas came out of the exhaust pipe. White smoke from burning engine oil also came out of the hood. After trying for nearly ten minutes, the person in charge of the program team said: "Let the Touareg come back, don't waste time."
Everyone sighed for a while and tried hard to prove their Touareg. In the end, what they got in exchange was "Don't waste your time." The scene of Bai Fumei ruthlessly rejecting her mother-in-law reappeared.
The Touareg returned dejected, and everyone was preparing for the next Land Rover to appear. However, Charlie Hammond on the side turned his face to the camera, scratched his chin and said to himself: "I suddenly feel a little sad.
, maybe we shouldn’t have included this Touareg among the five cars tested in the first place. Maybe we should replace it with a Mercedes-Benz G65, which might be more reasonable.”
James May, who was on the side, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Don't care about the Touareg, just focus on the performance of the Range Rover."
The Range Rover set off.
This absolutely muscular SUV roared towards the first steep slope, with a heroic ambition to die generously. After all, Range Rover focuses on off-roading. For this latest route, passing is not a problem. The only thing is
The problem is, it takes too long.
Twenty-five minutes.
Fortunately, Range Rover finally came over.
Jeremy put his hands on his hips and said with a confused expression: "I don't know what to say. Although I think the Range Rover's performance is already very good, looking at the C3c that hasn't started yet, I suddenly feel very pessimistic.
..”
c3c sets off.
Perhaps judging from its appearance, it is more like a city car driving fast on the highway. It seems to have the same high-end, rich and handsome positioning as the Cayenne. Even if it is placed on a rough asphalt road, it feels like it is falling.
Despite his identity, he rushed towards his own journey without hesitation.
The powerful torque output and powerful four-wheel drive system make it more flexible and outstanding than the Range Rover. It does not take much effort to go uphill, and wheel spin rarely occurs. The grip is always in place, every time
When it was about to go uphill, everyone thought that the most harmonious picture would be if the car couldn't climb up, but he was destined to surprise people. He climbed up every slope very easily.
The entire route took less than fifteen minutes.
Jeremy was extremely frustrated and said: "If we move the line another five meters towards the peak line, I'm worried that the Range Rover will not be able to handle it at all. At present, the Range Rover is inferior to the C3C in all aspects, even with its powerful
The off-road ability is also much worse than that of the C3C. Can he still be able to handle it in the next test?"
The answer is no.
Moving another five meters, this route was closer to the peak line. The Range Rover only climbed the first two slopes. At the 18th minute, he gave up completely in front of the third slope. He also tried hard and climbed several times in a row.
Minutes of wheels spinning cruelly revealed a reality: facing this kind of road surface, no matter what the Range Rover did, it was just in vain.
However, Jeremy is still secretly looking forward to it. He hopes that the c3c will not go further than the Range Rover. In that case, the Range Rover can still regain some dignity in terms of its ability to adapt to extreme road conditions.
But the C3C was created to shame other SUVs.
It effortlessly arrived in front of the steep slope where the Range Rover was defeated. Immediately, the horsepower was turned on and the car suddenly rushed. After the front wheels grabbed the steep slope, the four-wheel drive system distributed more power to the rear wheels, and the rear wheels pushed the car body
After 80% of climbing the hill, the front wheels received more power distribution, and then the whole vehicle rushed up.
After going up the hill, the c3c's power distribution system was extremely accurate. The power of the four wheels was almost even for a moment. The central control system continuously gave the four wheels different power configurations based on the actual stress of the car. He rushed up
The slope, which puts the Range Rover to shame, wasn't over yet, as he covered the rest of the distance in one go.
The whole thing took seventeen and a half minutes.
In other words, on the same route, it took the Range Rover only 18 minutes to cover two slopes, less than a quarter of the entire route, while the C3c covered 100% of the route in less time.
What else to play?
Jeremy said with a frustrated face: "It's like four primary school students running a race. The age gap between these four primary school students ranges from 6 to 12 years old, so their results are also different, but when they join
What's the point of this competition when you're an Olympic champion?"
Everyone in the top-gear program group was extremely depressed. Zhang Wenhao could also understand this feeling. It was like the Chinese media inviting table tennis teams from other countries to China to play a friendly match with the Chinese table tennis team, but unexpectedly they were
The foreign opponents were completely defeated, but this was originally the host's strength!
Jeremy walked up to Zhang Wenhao, pursed his lips for a long time, and said: "Zhang, I don't know when Dongchen will be able to put the product on the overseas market, but if c3c is launched, can you sell it to me first?
One car?"^-^^-^
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