Chapter 352: Audi A1 + Captain America

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Thinking about it a little annoyed, he simply came to the windowsill of the office and looked down, this window was a glass window facing the road outside the factory.

Cars and cars on the road outside, now on the road in Nanyang, Huayang Power's models are gradually increasing, and they can almost account for about half of the models on the road.

You must know that Nanyang was originally a heavy industrial city, and there were many state-owned automobile factories in this city in the past, but later in the early stage of reform, because they did not adapt to the market, most of them basically went out of business.

With the deepening of reform and opening up, more and more people are running on the road, and they have become joint ventures such as Guangben Accord, GAC Toyota, or FAW Toyota and Volkswagen.

On the road, there is basically one domestic car for every twenty cars, which is good.

But now with the emergence of Huayang Power, there are many fewer Accord, Camry, and Audi that originally ran all over the street on the road, and they were replaced by models like Huayang Power's Yidong, Octavia, Jingrui, and Qoros.

Wait a minute! Audi! How did you forget that model?

Haha, it's really effortless, Jin Xiaoqiang couldn't help but pat his head, because the sales of hatchbacks in China have always been very general, and hatchbacks from abroad are generally in the name of steel cannons, so the price is very expensive, so the hatchbacks on the market, even after 2010, have always been dominated by domestic low-end cars.

So all of a sudden, I really didn't think that this little steel cannon from Audi came!

This little steel cannon from Audi. That is, the Audi A1 carefully launched by Audi in the future!

As a high-end brand owned by Volkswagen. The current Audi is no longer the Audi that was beaten by Mercedes-Benz and BMW in the luxury car market, and finally had to go away to open up the market.

After so many years of nourishment in the Celestial Empire, Audi has already returned to the high-end car market on the right track from the low-end cars in the original high-end cars, although it still can't compete with Mercedes-Benz and BMW in the international scope. But in the Celestial Empire market, it can be said that Audi is a dominant one.

And in recent years, with the great success of their Audi A4 and Audi Q7 models, they have also regained a lot of market share in Europe and the United States, and they also have the confidence to compete with BMW and Mercedes-Benz.

In fact, Audi has long been very dissatisfied with the scene of BMW's mini Cooper on the high-end small steel cannon model, and what is even more infuriating. BMW is now actually lowering its figure, while increasing the research and development of the 3 series, it has also begun to engage in the 1 series model, gradually eroding the low-end market share occupied by the public.

For so many years, everyone has not interfered with river water. But now BMW wants to cross the line, and Audi and Volkswagen can't swallow this breath.

So Audi also began to quietly start to develop high-end small steel gun models, which were initially named Audi A2 series, but later due to various reasons, this plan has not been very smooth, and finally died.

Later in 2007. Volkswagen gritted its teeth and made a heavy bet and handed over the factory in Brussels to Audi, with the aim of developing a model that could compete with BMW's mini.

Since they have reached out to our rice bowl, then we don't need to be polite to him!

So the new Audi A1 project was launched, and until 2010, the smallest model in the Audi family. The Audi A1 was officially unveiled at the Paris Motor Show that year, and it was announced that it had fired the first shot against the BMW mini.

In fact, anyone who has seen this car knows that this car is actually a freak hybrid with Audi's front row and Volkswagen Scirocco in the back.

And if you look at it from the side waistline, people will definitely think that this is a mini Cooper, after all, the mini has left a deep impression on the people of the world.

This car uses a 1.4TFSI engine similar to the Golf in terms of power, but it is just one more layered combustion than the TSI of the Golf.

The performance of this freak after its listing is actually not very good, and it has not been able to challenge the status of BMW Mini well in Europe and the United States, and there are very few sales in the Celestial Empire.

After all, the price of this car in the Celestial Empire is too high. …,

And now Jin Xiaoqiang wants to add a steel cannon model to his Huayang power, so he first thought of such a car, as for why he chose such a car, mainly because, although this car Audi did not succeed, but in terms of design, there is still a certain uniqueness.

Thinking of this, Jin Xiaoqiang also had a bottom in his heart, as soon as he looked up, more than two hours had passed, and Liu Mei didn't know when, so she retreated, it seemed that she saw that she had been pondering, and she was embarrassed to disturb herself, so she left first.

Now that Liu Mei is gone, Jin Xiaoqiang simply threw off his arms and started working, he has always been a vigorous and resolute person.

The rough sketch of the Audi A1 quickly jumped on the drawing board in front of him, in fact, he preferred the design of the rear half of this car compared to others, as for the front of the Audi family-like face, in Jin Xiaoqiang's opinion, it was a bit too much of a failure.

The front face of Audi, which has always been calm and heavy, looks a bit nondescript to accompany the front of such a hatchback.

So he decided to make a certain rectification of the front of the car, the upper part of the front part of the car still maintains a rounded design, and later Audi's famous fierce eye lights have also been retained, but in the lower part of the grille part, he used the modern Phase One positive trapezoidal large-mouth grille, instead of the original Audi inverted trapezoidal, and he also strengthened the angular design of this integral grille to make it look more distinct.

And in the original fog lights, he also added two fang-like designs, so that the front face of the whole car looks more lively and smart.

Fierce eye lights add to the car's domineering, while fanged fog lamps and a small grille design. It can increase the agility of this car. Make it look more spiritual.

In addition, the original car is similar to the butt of the Sciroc, and the whole car is put together, which looks a lot more harmonious, at least in appearance, it looks much more pleasing to the eye than the original Audi, and it is far from the nondescript feeling that the original car looks like.

Once the shape is solved, all that remains is the engine.

And in terms of engines. IN FACT, JIN XIAOQIANG ALREADY HAS A VERY GOOD BELLY CASE, WHAT HE CHOSE FOR THIS CAR IS, LATER AT THE 2012 AUTO SHOW, FORD LAUNCHED THE EXTRAORDINARY 1.0ECOBOOST ENGINE!

When it comes to the 1.0 three-cylinder engine, I'm afraid many people will immediately think of Ricky QQ, or BYDF0 such as A00 level small car, no matter how violent you treat the throttle, foot floor oil, such an engine feedback to you is still soft power, want to speed up? No way at all!

But the later 1.0 three-cylinder, which was finely tuned by Ford's engineers. The ECOBOOST engine, if you treat him like that, he will give you something that will never be the way it is.

The feedback from this zero-point three-cylinder engine can be described as bursting. When you think about it from his weak physique, it is easy to think of the famous American comic book hero, Captain America!

The start is relatively average, at 2500 rpm, you can reach a power output of 100 horsepower. The peak power of 4500 rpm can reach 180 horsepower and 240 Nm of torque, which is no less than the performance of ordinary naturally aspirated engines, 2.4 or 2.5L displacement engines.

When Ford announced the data of this engine, Jin Xiaoqiang only felt. It's this guy, it's just a freak, and among the many small-displacement engines, this guy is completely the superhuman performance of the human race.

You know, that year, Volkswagen had just announced the 1.2TSI engine, but Volkswagen's 1.2TSI data, in front of this engine, can only be a slap in the face.

Volkswagen announced a series of magic machines, what 1.4TSI, what 1.2TSI is not even worthy of this engine shoes!

However, this engine is not without flaws, first of all, as far as the turbo is concerned, everyone knows that the turbocharger of the engine has a turbo hysteresis effect.

Generally, when the car has just started, at low speed, or in the case of idling, the engine speed is insufficient, so the displacement is not enough, so that the turbine can not intervene in the work of the engine and provide power to the engine.

This engine is a three-cylinder model with a displacement of 1.0 displacement, which is inherently small, so it is difficult to reduce the turbo lag effect even with a lightweight turbo with a smaller mass. …,

Originally, after Jin Xiaoqiang conquered a supercharged artifact like TVS, such a turbo hysteresis effect, in his opinion, was no longer a problem at all.

However, an artifact like TVS is used in such a small-displacement engine, which is really a bit of a waste in Jin Xiaoqiang's opinion.

Fortunately, the original Ford engineers have solved this problem, and they equipped this engine with dual independent camshaft variable valve timing technology, which can completely solve this problem.

In other words, the variable valve technology is transferred to the camshaft responsible for the intake and exhaust valves, and the intake and exhaust air is precisely controlled to control the amount of intake and exhaust air to control the pressure of the driving turbine.

The vibration and noise problems caused by the three-cylinder engine were also eliminated by the bold and innovative flywheel and belt front-facing method.

IN FACT, AS EARLY AS 2011, FORD ANNOUNCED THE TECHNOLOGY OF THIS 1.0 THREE-CYLINDER ECOBOOST, BUT THE DATA AT THAT TIME WAS ONLY A PEAK OF 100 HORSEPOWER AND 125 HORSEPOWER, WHICH WAS SLIGHTLY BEHIND THE TSI OF VOLKSWAGEN.

However, later Ford's engineers tuned the engine to improve, and by the time it was taken out in 2012, the maximum output of this engine had risen to a maximum of 180 horsepower, and the torque had also increased to a maximum of 240 Nm!

A 1.0 displacement engine can reach more than 2.0 power data, such an engine, it is really exciting to think about! (To be continued.) )