Pu Sang, the last Volkswagen, made a comeback: success and safety.

Pu Sang is a good car that lives in memory.

My friend spent a lot of money to buy a Pu Sang with a good color, and spent about 10,000 yuan to tidy it up as good as new. As a group of post-70 s and post-80 s car enthusiasts, this behavior is obviously buying feelings. Since it is a living creature with complete licenses, you must be careful not to bump into it in the street. I guess its life value will eventually go to the road of "collection".

This kind of vehicle just provides the condition of "feeling brave in the past". In order to savor the flavor of this living fossil of China automobile, I borrowed it unceremoniously.

From 1983 to 20 12, it took Pu Sang thirty years to brand his image in the hearts of ordinary people in China. Although I never thought it was good-looking, at least at a certain stage, such as 1990 to 2000, its square head and square brain image was more generous, more solid and superior than several other old rivals in the same period.

But seeing this car again in 2020, even if it is as bright as new, there will still be a cottage feeling that even the doors are not tightly closed. Probably because the window line is broken, or because the whole body is surrounded by 360-degree plastic, the rubbing strip is too rough, the body lines are all breakpoints, and there is no sense of fluency, but I swear it is really a good thing in the street.

For a car designed 40 years ago, you can only look at it through memory. If you cut off the previous memory and directly cut into today's aesthetics, it is basically a monster. However, some retro details are nostalgic: for example, the metal aqueducts on both sides of the roof are basically standard for off-road vehicles and vans in the last century; There is also a large glass lampshade, which is very real when knocked by hand; The square opening in the trunk is completely above it. This design will now be sprayed as inconvenient to get the goods, but at that time, every car did it in a proper way.

Children after 00 will be surprised by Pu Sang's exaggerated chassis height as long as they look from the side. Compared with today's Sven urban SUV, Pu Sang is a hard-core off-road. How strong is its passability? You can watch short films online.

In addition, the classic advertisement "You are not afraid to travel around the world if you own Santana" also highlights this point. For China's road conditions in the 1980s and 1990s, Pu Sang was competent in all aspects.

I don't know how many people sitting in Pu Sang can recall the sense of high class in the 1990s, but I didn't realize it. However, some iconic features still smell familiar, such as spacious interior space, towering driver's dashboard embedded in the air outlet of radio and air conditioner, and anti-skid pad with particularly obvious slope. These are all impressive places at that time.

Interior materials, on the other hand, didn't feel inferior at all for nine years, but today it can't stand it. The granularity of plastic panels everywhere is as big as the primary processed products of recycled plastics; The seams in many places are terrible; The steering wheel cannot be adjusted in four directions: up, down, front and back; And the exposed metal handbrake handle is completely the style of a van.

Santana is actually upgrading all the way, such as changing from an early tape drive to a later CD player, and even adding the function of MP3. The inclined plane of the dashboard in front of the co-pilot used to be a big horn hole, which was later filled in; Several lifting buttons for electric windows are attached to the thin door panel of the hand-operated window; High-mounted brake lights have been added to the rear window platform ... Unfortunately, cars are not like airplanes. Even after 30 years of tinkering, they can't compete with the backwardness of the overall design foundation. Pu Sang is really old.

Most of the maintenance items of my friend's car are related to driving, and various oil-water belts and rubber sleeves have been replaced to reduce vibration. Theoretically, the feeling of driving is basically close to the factory state.

This Pu Sang produced on 20 10 is the last version. Bosch EFI 1.8L engine, 5-speed manual gearbox, hydraulic clutch, ABS+EBD, which is not as bound as Santana in the early days. However, the gear feel is far less smooth than today's Volkswagen MQ series, and the first gear is a little left, not the square H gear.

However, the power is still surprising. You know, when I used to drive Santana in fourth gear, I found that its power could rub my opponent to the ground. Today, driving this antique Santana with 1.8L still exceeds expectations, and the front wheel with 195 width can still rattle when the accelerator is turned on, which is unambiguous.

McPherson on the front axle, the classic chassis A beam on the rear axle is not as good as the sky, but it is not as good as the earth. The training method adopts a safe way suitable for the road conditions of the motherland at the end of last century and the beginning of this century. Several tight continuous bends from left to right will sway badly, but it is quite comfortable after the rhythm slows down.

Santana is a typical example. Many people can't afford it if they like it, and they can't afford it if they can afford it. The emotional value of "never having" makes it more successful.

But by today's standards, Pu Sang, the worst independent brand car company in China, will laugh at it. It's really old, and it's completely behind its contemporaries. It's a joke to continue production with such a good appearance. It's better to bury it as a safety issue.

However, today's vision will not be so narrow and superficial. If you find a shiny live Pu Sang swimming in the street, its owner is probably still in the corner. He may be wearing a dress, carrying a full leather shoulder bag and driving his old collection car to Shanghai for a vintage car party.

Perhaps the most popular classic car culture in the future begins with the former national cars such as Pu Sang, Jetta, Fukang and Alto, which means that the car culture in China has become more and more popular.

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