BMW, Audi cancelled the 12-cylinder engine. Will Mercedes follow up?
The 12-cylinder engine is a feeling in the eyes of many people. This feeling comes from industrial standards. The quality of a car is judged by the number of engine cylinders and the displacement. Only a luxury car can afford 12 cylinders. The engine, the small family car is not installed. Then the future of the 12-cylinder engine disappeared. Who can prop up the new standard for luxury cars?
Turbocharging has become a trend
Many people scoff at turbocharging, but if you go to the used car market, a V8 turbocharged car must be better sold than a V12 self-priming car. Because the person who actually buys a car, it still looks fuel consumption. Someone said , Can you afford such an expensive car? Do you still care about this fuel consumption? The answer is that the rich are concerned about the fuel consumption. The poor only hope that their fuel consumption will not exceed 8L, and that the rich want their fuel consumption not to exceed 18L.
Due to the rapid development of engine technology, the advantages of the V12 engine have almost disappeared. The V8 turbocharger can completely replace the V12, and even the V6 supercharger can be used. Take the Audi R8 as an example, it canceled the V8 model and changed it to the V62.9T engine. , Power is much higher than the previous V8.
By 2025, most countries in Europe will bid farewell to the traditional powertrain. Plug-in hybrid power will be the mainstream market. This time, the V12 will restrict the installation space of the motor, reduce the engine, and leave the site for the motor. Imperative.
In addition, the motor torque itself is much larger than the internal combustion engine, so the installation of a motor, can greatly increase the acceleration of the vehicle, and the weight of the motor and battery assembly is not light, reducing the weight of the internal combustion engine is also imperative Now.
The new rich do not care about V12
For V12, most of them are unable to afford a car. The post-70s, 80s, and 90s, which entered the middle age of the old people in the last century, are still in a backward industrialized era. After 10 00, these mobile Internet aboriginals may not have the fancy data on these papers. They care more about the technical content and human-computer interaction of a car. Maybe a car can't keep him in the car. 4. When eating chicken, pesticides will not be stuck, which is more important than the 12 cylinder.
And these seemingly young little kids will be the main force of the luxury car market. Luxury car brands will naturally move R&D costs closer to these future consumers.
After all, the national government has its own policy and there is not much demand for large displacement. Nowadays, there are many vehicle brands. These so-called luxury brands are also in line with market demand, and they have two or three hundred thousand of them each. The low version can be seen that they are all descending their own identity and grabbing customers in the mid-range car. It can be seen that they all know how to adapt to the trend of the market and the times. ~ And so, although they do not have a 12-cylinder, their big name is still !
