At the end of 219, the domestic Mercedes-Benz A-class sedan entered the luxury brand compact car market with a wheelbase of 2789mm, and Xiao Zhi smelled the smell of gunpowder. It is estimated that the war of frantically lengthening the wheelbase will burn at this level. Sure enough, FAW-Volkswagen will build A3L based on the new Audi A3.
it is understood that the project code of Audi A3L is AU381/? CN_KL will be put into production in FAW-Volkswagen Qingdao Branch in the future, which is also the second Audi model that the factory undertakes to put into production.
Audi has a good reputation as a "lighting factory" in the world, and it is also the originator of "lengthening the wheelbase" in China. If Audi's convention is followed, how much will the A3L wheelbase be lengthened? Then Xiao Zhi will make an excuse today.
Like the conventional vehicle wheelbase lengthening, the engineer also made an article between the B-pillar and the C-pillar of A3L. Compared with the current A3 and the brand-new A3, the back door of A3L is obviously lengthened. At present, A3L doesn't have any visual strangeness due to lengthening. In addition, the car is also equipped with two-color five-spoke wheels.
as can be seen from the above table, the wheelbase of Audi A4L is increased by 83mm； compared with the standard axis A4; The wheelbase of Audi A6L is increased by 99mm compared with the standard axle A6. The wheelbase length or how much the wheelbase increases naturally depends on the vehicle positioning. As a medium-sized and large-sized car, the comfort brought by the large space (long axle) is naturally what A6L wants to pursue. As a medium-sized car, Audi A4L will naturally target younger people in the market. It has both space and sportiness (short axis). It can be inferred that the added wheelbase of A3L will not exceed 83mm.
Volkswagen is a compact car under MQB platform, including Q3, brand-new sagitar and A3. Compared with the old Q3, the wheelbase of the current Q3 has increased by 77mm；. Compared with the old sagitar wheelbase, the current sagitar wheelbase has increased by 8 mm. With reference to the wheelbase changes of Q3 and Sagitar, it can be judged that the increased wheelbase of A3L will also wander between 7mm and 8 mm..
there is a clear market positioning between Audi A3 and sagitar. after all, one is a luxury brand compact car and the other is a joint venture brand compact car. High cost performance (high configuration, large space and low price) is naturally the remarkable feature of sagitar compared with A3. It can be inferred that the wheelbase of Audi A3L will not keep pace with sagitar, but? A3L has a shorter wheelbase and less space. After all, the current naked car price of Audi A3 with a terminal discount of about 15, yuan will indeed shake the determination of a small number of sagitar 28TSI potential users to buy a car.
the wheelbase of the old sagitar is 2651mm, the wheelbase of A3 is 2629mm, and the wheelbase difference is 22mm. It is expected that A3L will keep the same wheelbase difference as the new sagitar. With reference to the current sagitar wheelbase of 2731mm, it can be inferred that the wheelbase of A3L will not exceed 279 mm..
to sum up, Xiao Zhi speculates that the wheelbase of A3L will increase by 8 mm. However, considering the market positioning of A3L, we should have certain mobility while giving consideration to space, and at the same time, we should prevent too much market overlap with Volkswagen Sagitar after future terminal discounts, which will shake consumers' confidence in buying cars. Xiao Zhi conservatively estimated that the wheelbase of A3L will be increased by 7mm, so as to have both space and sportiness.
The new Audi A3 uses the latest design language of the Audi family, and the corner design of the hexagonal grille and light group is sharper than that of the current model, and the sporty atmosphere of the whole vehicle is improved a lot compared with the current model. In addition, the new car is equipped with LED headlight group, which is composed of 3×5 LED strip pixels array, which can generate special light signals.
the most eye-catching design of the rear part is still a brand-new light group, which echoes the headlight group and has high recognition. The rear bumper is still equipped with an imitation opening design to enhance the sporty atmosphere of the vehicle, but the rear exhaust adopts a hidden design.
in the interior, the new car adopts the latest design language of Audi family, equipped with 12.3 LCD instrument and 1.1 central control screen. Audi's virtual cockpit also has a comprehensive display navigation function, providing three different views. Like Audi A6 and A8, the 1.1-inch central control screen has sound and tactile feedback in operation, and the operation convenience is not inferior to that of physical buttons.
in addition, in the official materials of Audi, it emphasized "Prue? The word "emotion". The suspension, steering, four-wheel drive system and ESC body stability system of the new A3 have been improved a lot, including adaptive damping variable suspension, progressive steering system and quattro? Drive timely four-wheel drive technology and upgraded driving mode and ESC mode.
power system: the new car will provide a 1.5T gasoline engine, a 1.5T+48V light mixing system, a 1.T three-cylinder engine and a 2.T diesel/gasoline engine, and the transmission system will match a 6MT or 7DCT gearbox. It is reported that the rear suspension will be equipped with torsion beam suspension for models below 15 horsepower, and other models will be equipped with rear multi-link suspension.
In the future, domestic A3 is expected to provide only 1.5T+48V light mixing system and 2.T gasoline version, and the rear suspension is equipped with multi-link independent suspension.
it is foreseeable that Audi A3L and domestic Mercedes-benz a-class sedan will redefine the space access threshold of luxury brand compact cars in the future. Different from the price range of 25,-3, yuan occupied by A-class sedan, the price range of 2,-25, yuan occupied by Audi A3 gives it a very high cost performance. In addition, at present, the terminal discount of Audi A3 is 75% off, and the price of bare car after discount is about 15, yuan. Xiao Zhi speculates that the price of A3L will not increase greatly in the future. If its wheelbase is increased by about 7mm, wouldn't it be nice to buy an A+ luxury brand car for 15, yuan?
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