C63 joke

It's been nine months since I picked up my black manual gear 86. Because I often run intercity expressways, the mileage is close to10.5 million kilometers, and the comprehensive fuel consumption per 100 kilometers is 7.82 liters. In this14,000 km, there are various road conditions such as closed mountain roads, small race tracks, bumpy unpaved roads, extreme congestion, daily commuting, cross-provincial roads, and cross-sea ferries. More importantly, out of curiosity about the original factory settings (mainly because there is no money to modify), this 86 is still in the original factory state except for the original engine oil, and even the four "energy-saving tires" that have no advantages except wear resistance have not been replaced.

I've been running the original factory 86 for so long, and I already know it very well. In addition to my long-term experience in various road conditions, I also experienced an emotional crisis with 86 because I opened the S 2000 (AP2), which is much better in all directions. It's almost time to share my experience. Let me talk about why I chose 86, a brand-new car with no historical heritage except its name.

I don't know how many 86 car owners chose this car because of AE86' s feelings, but when I was in primary school, I seemed to be watching digital Tyrannosaurus rex, incredible games and spinning top, and I didn't think much about D, so my impression of JDM was limited to beautiful sports cars such as RX-7, MR2 and S2000. Naturally, I won't be brainwashed by the aura of the protagonist of that ugly panda box tofu truck and choose 86.

Emotion is not the reason why I chose 86. 200 horsepower, the same 7500 rpm fuel cut speed as Mazda 3 ten years ago (fortunately, it's still 5 1 higher than Encheng). I don't know if I can meet the acceleration of 7 seconds 0 1, which is not the reason why I chose 86 in performance.

I have always been a person who looks at the appearance (headlights) first. I like E46 M3 just like her tearful headlights. There is also an 86 car. To be honest, apart from the sleek side face that FR Coupe itself should have, I have no feeling about its front and rear light sets. Even now, I still feel that the front face has become ugly after the mid-1986 change.

In a word, from appearance to emotion to performance, 86 has never tempted me. With a budget of 300,000 to 400,000, I will definitely choose a used car. On dreams, E46m3 on feelings, CT9Evo9 on the mandatory grille, 987 Cayman/Boxster. In addition, there are 1M, C63, E60 M5, WRX, EVO X, which are a bunch of awesome cars, and no one in the performance car industry can rank 86.

Then why did you buy it?

Run a question first. In fact, many good friends know that I have always been a BMW fan. However, when I grew up, I discovered that I didn't like the blue sky and white clouds of BMW, but the cars E36/46/92 M3, E39/60 5, E63 6 and E85 Z4. It's just that these cars happen to have the BMW logo. The current 1 series, 3 series and 5 series are still BMW, but I really can't appreciate it. Aesthetics is subjective, but objectively speaking, it is not only cars, animation works and music movies. In fact, our aesthetic evaluation of things is based on the coordinate system of age.

In this regard, someone on the internet said it very well: the difference in our evaluation of works is actually a purely age issue, which has nothing to do with the level of the works themselves. Because:

1. Most of the popular culture when I was born is antique and not worth mentioning.

2./kloc-the popular culture born between 0/0 and 30 years old is mostly unrepeatable classics.

Most of the pop culture I was born after 30 years old is stupid, superficial and naive.

Classics can reappear, but years can't come back. Our aesthetics largely depends on what we learned when we were young, as simple as that.

Used cars are really good things to satisfy the dreams of the poor. Let's say that E85 Z4 was poisoned by magazines when I was in primary school. It's not worth mentioning. Now the second-hand price of 3.0 high-end version of Si has dropped to several hundred thousand. Compared with the price of 600,000 to 700,000 that people only dared to look at from a distance before, this is quite within reach. 15 years have passed, and the child who spent 10 yuan bought a car magazine is almost standing. It turns out that Z4' s handwriting at work is still very nice.

However, the saddest thing in the world is probably that in the past ten years, I was suddenly so close to my dream that my dream car was within reach, but I was forced by the policy to change to a new car. My first car was IS200, which was produced in 2003 and met the Euro III emission standard. In China, if we only look at the age of the car and don't look at the actual emissions, it is likely to be only the second country or even the first country (cars that were licensed before 2006 are only the second country at most).

At the beginning of 20 17, the news suddenly said that Shenzhen might cancel the replacement index of the first and second cars before the end of the year. As can be seen from the auction price of Shenzhen license plate, the average transaction price of 17 and 12 has soared to 95,000, surpassing Shanghai. In this way, it is urgent to replace the Guangdong B license plate of IS200 with a new car. Don't say that I listen to the wind as rain. After all, on the eve of Shenzhen's licensing restrictions, the official Weibo shouted that "Shenzhen is about to limit licensing" is a rumor. Who will forget such a lesson?

In this way, we can only buy a new car. I just wanted to choose 320iM and ATS-L in a compact sports car. A product has balanced strength and rich optional configurations, but the tight driving sense of the classic 3 Series has long faded, and the feeling of 184 horsepower is almost meaningless; One has strong power and tough control, but the front face of the instrument is too old-fashioned, using a foot brake, and the only configuration that can be bought is a halogen lamp. Although both cars are a little too busy in the street, at least they are both rear-drive and luxury brands, which can satisfy my vanity. After all, I'm driving a Toyota Honda now, and I'm embarrassed to put my keys on the table when I eat.

In this way, it is hardly 320 ATSL. Until one day, I clicked on a video of an engineer's test drive to change the model 86. I followed this guy in tg bar for a long time before, and then I added WeChat, majoring in vehicle engineering at Loughborough University in the UK, and playing E92 335 in the UK. After returning to China, I received 1M, and now ZF is a subjective evaluation EPS adjustment engineer. In fact, the video itself is very rough, it should be taken with a mobile phone, and the driving explanation in the car is also dubbed later, but the content is particularly in place. I forgot whether it was taken at the track in tianmashan or at Boda Automobile Park. In a word, Zhang Gong spoke highly of the handling of 86 cars. I don't know why the video is off the shelf now. I only remember Zhang Gong's sentence, which probably means: 86 car owners must find a chance to drive 86 times on the track. This car can exercise your driving skills, and it is a mentor and friend to take you to the track.

It was this sentence that suddenly woke me up and gave me a new angle of thinking. Many people who like performance cars, including me, want their cars to have the best performance. Like the M3, M5, EVO and C63 mentioned above, they are all high-performance cars with 300-400 horsepower or even 500 horsepower. It is true that driving them around the street has a carefree and fearless feeling. For example, if you fantasize about driving an EVO, you must bring your own aura of street fighter, be confident and teach yourself to be a man at any time. But think again, where does this pride come from? This kind of arrogance is not from your own heart, you are just attached to the performance and gas field of the car you are driving. To put it bluntly, this is Smith. Leave this car, you are an ordinary person, and everyone is silent. Indeed, if you drive E46 M3 and EVO to the party in a local car, there will definitely be many people who want to know you. But this is only because your car is awesome, not because your people are awesome.

And 86 is really slow, noisy and bumpy. Although it has the shape of a sports car, even the 2.0T cars and SUVs on the street can't run, and the horsepower is just the level of GTi ten years ago. But it has manual gear, LSD, compact transmission ratio arrangement, extremely fast throttle response, very convenient heel-to-toe pedal arrangement, agile body dynamics and front steering response brought by ultra-low center of gravity ... Finally, it has rich explosive-level replacement parts support. No matter lap speed or drift, 86 can faithfully accompany you to hone your skills.

After all, the 86 is just a lightweight naturally aspirated FR sports car with extremely ordinary performance and very old-fashioned design. The happiness that 86 brings you lies not in how awesome you are when you drive it, nor in the advanced technology it boasts, nor in the feelings that this car wants to blow. The happiness of driving 86 lies in every quick and smooth shift, every steady heel before turning, every quick execution of steering input by the body, and every accurate backlash when the rear wheel slips. The happiness of driving 86 is the pleasure from the heart after constantly testing your driving skills. Just like dopamine secreted after exercise, although tired, it is happy, lasting and full.

But don't get me wrong, it's not that I can't eat grapes and say it's sour (in fact, it's still a little bit). I dream of owning M3, M5, EVO and C63 cars, but the poor 200 horsepower of 86 can't even touch the side of a performance car in my heart. I just want to say, don't let you stop at the performance of the car, but constantly improve your driving skills so that your ability can give full play to the full performance of this car, instead of staying at the level where the original car is more fierce than people and only drags on the road.

Speaking of cars being fiercer than people, I remember a very interesting experience. Last year, I went to see racing day, and the owner of GT-R was in his twenties. Sitting on the God of War at a young age is really a winner in life, and the process of driving into the track from the outfield is also very awesome. However, when people's skills were thoroughly tested when they came to the small track of Kinkana, the performance aura of GT-R was completely separated from the driver's technology, and these GT-R owners were all beaten back to their original shape. GT-R's super-running killer performance infinitely magnifies the consequences of drivers' various wrong operations.

Without the common sense of slow entry and quick exit, no matter how strong the four-wheel drive is, it can't save the thrust into the corner; Without the basic skills of simply judging the bending center, the power of breaking 100 in 2.7 seconds cannot be exerted. In addition to the small straight road that has just started, GT-R's more than 500 horsepower can be very powerful in all directions, and cornering will also be very powerful. There are all kinds of pushing piles in the bend, and some of them can't even turn around the bend, so they have to pour one. There was even a GT-R that smashed the front lip. It's really puzzling that these god of war, who used to be full of gas fields, can be awe-inspiring in your rearview mirror on the street, but they are driven in such a mess on the track. Therefore, although cars are fiercer than people, it is not a sin, but if the strength gap between cars and people is too big, it will always give people a feeling of wasting things and make jokes.

Again, if your driving skills are not enough, the stronger the performance of the car you drive, the more serious the consequences-all kinds of videos of rushing and crashing on the Internet are searched a lot. To give an extreme example: if ordinary people are given a QQ and a La Ferrari to run the track, it is very likely that Rafa will jump over the wall at the first corner, but the QQ with turtle speed can run safely.

Therefore, in line with the concept of never too old to learn, in order to exercise my driving skills (mainly because I can't afford the M3), I gave up the temptation of luxury brands (which really requires perseverance) and chose this manual transmission Toyota. So, what kind of experience is it to change from automatic V8 to manual weak chicken four cylinders? If you are interested in reading on, I will talk about it in the next article.