The warmth and elegance in the bones
In my humble opinion, a convertible is not a sports car, and a convertible is not a sports car. A convertible is just a car whose roof can be opened. I think it’s just that people are used to this term, sports cars, what is running, and face cars are also running on the road. Maybe this so-called running refers to running fast, which is different from the power of civilian cars. The excess power of sports cars may be a necessary standard, and that standard should be called high-performance cars, or sports cars should be folk names for high-performance cars. It’s more mouthful than an unexpectedly high-performance car. So what I’m trying to say is, are you watching it seriously? I just want to buy a convertible car.
Most people’s feeling about the convertible is cool. Have you ever thought about the nature of the convertible? personally, I think it is beautiful, handsome, elegant, personable and disobedient.
I visited the house every day more than a decade ago, which is basically a must-do every day. Take a look at the parameters of various cars, compare which models you like, and think about which one you will buy in the future.
In this era when Douyin is an era when everyone must have APP on their mobile phones, I still have to make a confession to the home that I like and have been following for more than ten years.
For the first time, there may be some ambiguity in the logic and chronological order of the language, which we all forgive.
I learned styling design when I was at school, and what I have learned so far has been returned to the teacher as early as 20 years ago. I can’t draw anything with a pen in hand, only a little aesthetic left. It is said that before going to school in 1997, I bought two car magazines and learned a lot about car brands. Rural children have never seen any Ferrari or Bugatti. In 1997, even BMW Audi did not know, but I may have seen Mercedes-Benz while watching TV. From these two books, I also know that Toyota not only has a crown, and later Corolla, but also light crown and laurel, although they are all Toyota cars, but the car logo is different. Our domestic Corolla is also hung with Toyota logo, but in fact, she has her own car logo, which may be too complicated for manufacturers. It will cause brand confusion, and everyone will not recognize the car without hanging the Toyota mark, just as Ruizhi has an X mark abroad, but it was not introduced into China, and it was at this time that it planted the seeds of liking cars. At that time, I really wanted to be a practitioner in the automobile industry. I was also interested in living, but it was only an idea, and it was not put into action. It’s just hidden in the bottom of my heart. Look back and see if you can find these two books. If you find them, show them to everyone.
I also fell in love with the sports car at that time. I think the reason why the two-seater sports car looks good is that it will not be restricted by the cockpit. Because there are only two seats, there is plenty of space for the designer to play. Four seats need to be compromised considering the addition of two seats in the back row. When you get to the family car, you have to lengthen the body and coordinate the occupant space. It feels like an agricultural expert. Set up an experimental field on a piece of land that is not fertile or even barren. I have nothing but my ability.
I am already 43 years old. I have a dream of a convertible more than 20 years ago. I have been hiding at the bottom of my heart. My hometown is also a seaside town with a pleasant climate. Weihai, Shandong Province, dreamed of driving a small convertible car at that time. The taste is not too beautiful. In 2006, because I wanted to do a small business, I bought a Wuling prosperous, the cheapest model, 28000. This car can’t be found in even the house now, so find one online and take a look at it. This is the one with the front face, called Wuling Prosperity.
But it is said that Mercedes-Benz throttle is heavy, and did not change the model did not go to see, Audi 16 years at that time or CVT that sense of acceleration is really too weak, and parking forward gear in reverse, will stop for more than 2 seconds before there is a reaction, at that time 4S test drive is like this, also entangled with Audi’s flip screen, interior BMW can not compare with Audi at that time, Audi’s appearance is more than cool At that time, I also told BMW sales that your instrument felt like it was ten years ago. She said that although BMW is simple, there is all the information you need. Now I still don’t agree with her explanation, but I don’t agree with her. I think what she said is right, because after buying it, driving rarely looks at the meter and the big screen, driving is looking at the road, and the information on the meter is just a glance. Simple and clear will not interfere with the information you want to read too much. BMW gives you peace of mind to drive, which is also reflected in the 718 in 2020, when Porsche canceled the multi-purpose steering wheel without a button on it. Just let you hold the steering wheel and don’t do anything else.
Finally, I chose the BMW to pick up the car for 3 kilometers. Now it has been 7 years, maybe I am lucky, there are only some minor problems with the car, the handle inside the door of the main driver begins to decompose, call 400, say let 4S handle, 4S say BMW uses degradable and environmentally friendly material, you say that if the whole car interior is made of biodegradable material, then 10 years later my car will not be degraded, this is ridiculous, the car built by your company will be handled by dealers, do they have this ability?
The clasp on the back panel of the main driving seat came loose in 2022. This is an example.
There is a damping when the trunk is lifted in 2022, so that the trunk can be opened slowly. This damping was broken this year and was replaced in a friend’s repair shop.
The engine mat was changed in 2022.
As for what people are talking about, such as burning engine oil and valve cover oil leakage, mine has not appeared for the time being. I have run 80,000 kilometers in seven years, but it may be that the mileage is less.
There are no other problems in the past seven years. I am very satisfied with the car. I really can’t find anything wrong with it.
One more word, to buy a car, you must test drive, parameters and body feeling it is not the same thing, buy a car do not just look at the parameters. God knows if he is the target engine output or the wheel output.
In April 23, I saw the house every day of the second-hand car, originally intended to buy Boxter, as long as 6 cylinders, 718 do not want, as a result, it seems that the good car condition is more than 35-40. I don’t really pursue its performance. I just think the convertible can bring two different moods. Opening and closing the canopy are really two feelings. When the sun shines into the whole cockpit when it is opened, it is the kind of unrestrained and suddenly enlightened mood. It was very pleasant to smoke and listen to the music when I turned it off.
Based on this starting point, too expensive is not necessary, and I am also a pragmatist, only pursue the most practical, cost-effective (poor). Porsche is good, but the post-maintenance is really troublesome, the middle engine, you usually want to take a look at your engine is not good, maintenance is relatively troublesome accessories are expensive, the car price is also high, has been paying attention to Qingdao Hengcheng Zhiyuan blue red inside 15 years of Boxster, the car condition is perfect, the interior is extremely clean, four months from 35 to 30, but also reflects the downturn of the car market from the side, but also contacted sales I struggle with whether or not to buy it every day, and after a comprehensive consideration, my financial ability is not enough for me to have her easily. With the previous experience of the old A6, I know there will be some invisible fees in the later stage, so take a look at the normal front and rear drive, cheaper ones.
To sum up my requirements, only Z4 and SLK meet. TT is the front drive and all-wheel drive does not meet the requirements, these three cars do not consider performance, only consider the appearance, TT is too cute, SLK body lines you say it is hard, she also has round place, you say she is round, she also has rigid lines, the same is the length of the front. Only Z4 looks more coordinated to me. This is the idea before buying a car. The first choice is 30I and 35I, but after a long time, I found that most of these two models are E86 six-speed gearboxes, and occasionally an E89 35I is as far away as Chongqing, and it is also general after the introduction of the car conditions merchants, and I still have some worries about N55. What I want most is 28I, but this model is too few, and there are several of them on the house. When you think about it, you don’t ask for power, so you’d better pick a car in better condition.
Later, in the house, I saw a 12-year-old Z4 vegan car E89jue 20i in Nanjing. The lady had just delivered it to the dealer for less than a week, 100000 kilometers. I was tired of looking at it every day, and I didn’t think much about it. I bought the car after running a few kilometers on the road. I thought at that time that there were more or less minor problems with the car in this year. I definitely needed to come back and change the accessories. I found it after I bought it. It is really a lady’s first-hand car, there should be a basement parking, the waterproof tape at the connection of each section of the convertible does not have any signs of aging, the rubber cover of the chassis of the lift does not even have any folds, all functions are normal, and the computer reads the unexplained barrier code. the interior is also perfect, in line with the idiom how to say, right, found the treasure. The abnormal noise is only heard by the convertible mechanism on the bumpy road, and the chassis passing through the pit is only a sound, and there has never been a second sound. This also changed my understanding of the second-hand car brought to me by the old A6’s daily car repair. It turns out that it is really free to get a good car. Here we give a lot of likes to Nanjing Baicheng. The surname of the salesman is very special and his surname is Qiu. Some people can read it. Only the sound of the convertible mechanism is the only drawback of the hard-top convertible, the structure is too complex, and there is no hard connection, so you must have this awareness before buying a car. But when the hard-top convertible is closed, the shape coordination of the car body is also incomparable to the soft roof.
It’s just that the N20 of the first generation was louder. When I came back, I opened it to the 4S store and asked them to see where it needed to be changed or repaired. I checked around and told me that there was no need to repair, so I couldn’t do it. It seemed to be that the car was in perfect condition, or else 4S could not make money without making money.
Engine sound louder 4S says normal, is the sound of high-pressure fuel injection, but the N20 is more than twice as loud as the N20 of the five series, and it is the sound of that kind of tractor. I don’t agree with people saying that BMW is the sound of a tractor. Now I understand that they are talking about the N20 of the first generation. How to distinguish the first generation of N20 from the second generation? the first generation of bypass valve is controlled by vacuum machinery, that is, PWG on the Internet. The second generation is motor control called EWG. The idle engine shows 600 rpm, the computer test is 700 rpm, and the fifth series is 800 rpm. But the new car certainly doesn’t sound so loud, otherwise I don’t believe anyone will buy it. I asked several houses and said it was no problem, then I couldn’t get it ready. I just drove it like this. I only changed the oil and gearbox oil, as well as the gearbox oil pan. The total consumption is 2380. Nothing else was touched. Oh yes, and a pair of wipers.
After the car came back, I found that she had her own hard drive and could take the song test with a U drive. I bought the five series in 16 years, and only 528 seemed to have my own hard disk. Before I bought her, my first choice was Boxter, and Z4 was the second choice. When the car came back, I found that this choice was too perfect. Why do you say that? because I bought her at the end of April. My brother bought a 2014 Boxster 3.4 in May. Too noisy, although the performance of Porsche is much better, he used to do car wash cards, because the chassis is too low to get in, too much inconvenience.
The Z4 of the whole network is higher than the Boxter kilometer of the whole network, the reason is that Z4 is too suitable for daily driving and commuting. The air filter element of Minamata Shijie has to open the trunk and fold a lot of things to change, and the price is more than twice as high. Fortunately, I found a manufacturer to produce filter elements, Porsche’s two air filter elements only cost me less than 200. Normally, Taobao seems to be about 600. It may be even higher if it is ordered by the garage.
The appearance is more and more like, do not like her headlamp before buying, the back of the lamp is extended backward and pick up, feel not as good-looking as the E85 lamp, come back to see a few days used to, feel that this lamp is more elegant than E85. Every time I park the car, I can’t help but turn around and see her side again. TT is cute and cute like a 10-year-old. SLK is like a 17-year-old boy, somewhere between maturity and youth. Z4 is like a 25-year-old woman. I can’t find a word for her except for her richness and elegance.
There are too many things to share with you. To say a few points that I often pay attention to, the air conditioner of this car is too cold, and the condition of the compressor is really at its peak. I have not bragged about why the air conditioner of this car is so cold. It may also be that the space is small and the power of the compressor is high. I don’t really look at the power. Compared with Boxster, she has a cruise. You don’t have to step on it all the time when walking on the highway. But compared with Boxter, there are many differences. There are instant water temperature, tire pressure, oil temperature, oil pressure, gravity and so on.
The actual driving power is enough, coupled with the low center of gravity of the car, the car is also small, easy to drive, change the line because the wheel distance is very short, the rear wheel follow too fast, the direction after a dozen buttocks to follow, extremely fun.
The sound of the four-cylinder engine is really bad, and it is only when it is pulled to more than 4000 revolutions that it sounds good. One more word. BMW is basically a high-speed engine, we had better often increase the speed, often low speed is not a good thing. The red line area of the engine indicates whether the engine is turning high or low. If you look at the red area of speed, you can know whether your engine is turning high or low. But it doesn’t matter. The important thing is that she can be convertible. It’s just that when I backed up, my 20-year-old driver was not used to it, because her rearview mirror was in the center of the car, and her seat was a little in front of the rear wheel, so she basically sat on the rear wheel, so there was no image when she backed up. I was more repulsive to too many electronic devices of the car. When I learned to drive, the coach did not allow me to turn around, but only let me look at the rearview mirror, so I got into the habit of using the rearview image. In addition, the low-equipped ones do not wear this, so they are even more unfamiliar with it. Although I don’t feel the distance between my rear buttocks at all, I get into the habit of looking around the parking area in advance for rocks or obstacles, so it’s basically the same for me. Because the 20I is the minimum, the hub is not so gaudy, only five spokes, but instead, the hub is my favorite, with a concave center and great tension from the side.
When I used to drive noodles and then changed to the five-series, I felt that the steering of the five-series was already very accurate, and the response of the throttle was also with my feet, and I could easily move my butt under my feet, but Z4, who had been driving for several months, found that the throttle of the five-series was also slow and the direction was blurred. Although Z4 is not a pure sports car, it is still so accurate compared with the five-series that 20-year old drivers have to hold the steering wheel in both hands to drive. It’s easy not to run in a straight line with one hand. And the seat position is too back, the centrifugal force will be greater when turning the corner. In the case of the same rapid change around the island for 80 kilometers, I feel that the centrifugal force is even greater than that of the five series. I feel that the position is too far back. If you sit on the trunk, the centrifugal force there is the biggest position of the car. Just drive slowly. So this car is not a car in pursuit of power, 225 tire width has nothing to do with performance, under the shade to open the convertible, light a small cigarette is the most comfortable.
There are a lot of advantages, or it may be that mine is properly maintained, and the former car owner used it carefully, and the disadvantage is that the engine is loud, especially when driving back to the neighborhood in the dead of night, there are walls or other reflectors next to it. You are embarrassed to say hello to acquaintances, and there are no other shortcomings. as for people who say that the line of sight is not good, what storage space is small, there is no place to put things, I don’t think it’s really like it. Originally you bought what car you do not have your own count, you buy a two-seat talk space, buy a MPV to talk about power control, this is not a paradox. I feel that at my age, I can still buy a two-seater car, and can not find her shortcomings, this can be regarded as true love.
The original car of her angel eye was yellow. I replaced her with a white one, as if it was about 200. I bought it on Baoshang. I wanted to buy that kind of lamp with a decoder. The introduction said that the lamp without a decoder would report a failure, and I had never tried to report it or not. Anyway, I bought it with a decoder. The yellow one doesn’t look energetic, so it’s replaced by a white immediate spirit guy.
Just talk about the exterior and interior decoration, not the performance, only compare Z4, for the adjective of elegance, E85 does not seem to have fully evolved, elegant with a little bit of elegance, E86E89 is just a completely evolutionary body, the later generation does not say, evolution is useless, completely mutated. E8689 has no taste of sports at all, even if it looks like this, what is displayed in front of us is only elegance. But after the change, the lines are radical, and the air intake in front and the lines on the side are all expressing to us. I am very athletic. So they want to define whether it’s a convertible or a sports car.
In terms of interior layout, it is certain that the new car is more suitable for the current aesthetic taste of the public. After so many years of technological progress, the big screen has many functions and larger size, so it is necessary to mention the homogenization mentioned above. All cars are big screens. This is the problem of the benevolent and the wise.
I didn’t wash the car and didn’t pack my things. I’m sorry, I have to get off work tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
I believe many people know the exhibition team, and I agree with him that 99% of what they say is of a high level, which leads to many people who do not understand. If they do not understand, they will not understand, and if they do not understand, they will come out to debate. For example, he said that Audi is not a luxury brand, and whether it is fighting for traffic or not, Mercedes-Benz did not drive, I do not know fuel consumption, for example, 520, 2T low power rear drive, more than a transmission shaft. There was a lot of power loss during the transmission distance from the front to the back, but when I was cruising for 80 kilometers, the fuel consumption was 5.6 Murray 5.8. If I change to Audi’s entry A6, it is also 80 cruising, and the fuel consumption should be about the same, but the transmission distance can be much closer. Of course, fuel consumption is not the only one, car weight, engine thermal efficiency, gearbox have an impact. But the fuel consumption of the rear drive is similar to that of the front drive can tell us a little bit. I am not a professional and I take it for granted.
I only disagree with the exhibition team, that is, he said that buying vegetable cars does not talk about performance. I think what he is actually trying to say is that buying vegetable cars does not talk about track performance, and the track is an abnormal driving place. I wish that thing could drive without wearing a pair of underwear to lose weight. So there is no need for real family cars to bid on the track, just like BBA has produced supercars. It is not that they do not know how many of these things cannot be sold. Even if they sell less, they have to invest personnel and funds to do it. Why, in order to enhance the brand image, an enterprise should not listen to what he says. It depends on what he does. This is what big enterprises do. It is done and put here to prove that we have the ability to do this thing. As for whether or not to buy people do not care, you see Pheaton sales are poor, you see why he did not stop production, so digress again, all driving will eventually return to daily driving, of course, there will always be some voices in the world that do not follow the mainstream, such as Niu Malun.
But the family car still needs to talk about performance, in fact, the performance is not what we think is only power, torque, horsepower. This is a big concept, including all the output power of your car under the same fuel consumption, fuel economy, acceleration, cornering ability, cross-country ability, failure rate, propulsion ratio, etc., but there are so many models of cars that no one can understand and write down the parameters, so there is no way to talk about it. I asked, but you don’t know, so you can’t talk. Another one is called the GT exhibition team, and the name also says that he is not playing with daily scooters. We have to learn to accept other people’s different views, but only different views can make us progress, just like Copernicus who was burned to death.
Finally, I have a lesson. When buying a used car, you must buy a zero-transfer car, because the first car owner often cherishes his car very much. After reselling it, the new car owner will definitely tinker with something more or less (because the concept of understanding the car is different, they will make some minor adjustments to the vehicle) and the first car owner will mostly go to a 4S store for general maintenance. Those who have sold two or three lots of cars have basically gone to a small shop for maintenance and replacement if they are dissatisfied with the previous car owner. Especially sports cars are hard-hit areas, and very few people buy them without touching anything like me. Therefore, if you are sure which car is in 100% good condition but has passed a few times, consider it as appropriate. Otherwise, don’t touch any sports cars that have been transferred once. There is no extreme situation here, but only a high-probability event. Let’s understand and see.
Another point is that buying a used car is too much of a look at your face. There is an old saying in China that a blessed person does not occupy a land without a blessing. That is to say, if you are lucky, there will be various reasons why you cannot buy something that is not suitable for you. This belongs to the category of metaphysics.
Secondly, there is no need to compare which one is better for the BBA to choose. In fact, things are very homogeneous nowadays, and they are not profound. Everyone is thinking about it. I will match what functions you have. I will match what you have. Not bad, or not too bad. Few people can tell if it is a BMW or a Mercedes-Benz with their eyes closed. It was many years ago that car companies are not only studying consumers, but also their competitors, so don’t study which car is better, but not better. Only choose the one you think looks the most correct.
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