Can domestic cars rival or even surpass joint venture cars? Not necessarily. We are still far behind in many ways.

In recent years, domestic self-owned brand cars have developed rapidly, and many self-owned brand cars have made great progress in shape design, manufacturing technology, quality control and vehicle type adjustment. Especially in automotive electronic configuration, we will spare no expense, even if it is a cheap car with tens of thousands of dollars, we will also give you a tall atmosphere. So many people in China began to cheer: domestic cars can rival or even surpass joint venture cars, and we no longer have to pay for joint venture cars. If you use Geely's body, Chery's engine and BYD's chassis, you will definitely hit the joint venture car companies. Some people even say that without such cooperation, you can wrestle with joint venture car companies. The domestic car stands up!

So is this really the case? Here, I'm not trying to boost other people's ambitions and undermine my own prestige, but to look at the comparison between domestic cars and joint venture cars rationally from the perspective of objective reality. It should be said that the gap is still very large, and this gap can not be made up in a short time. Even though we are comparable to joint venture car companies in hardware, there is still a clear gap in experience and technology between domestic independent brands and joint venture car companies.

Why do you say that? There is an English proverb: Three generations can make a noble. It means that the formation of nobility is not achieved overnight, but through the continuous efforts of several generations, the class of children and grandchildren will be gradually improved, so that children and grandchildren will exude aristocratic temperament from the inside out, and eventually they will be able to enter the ranks of nobles, rather than through short-term training and training. It's like mixing a poor man with a rich man. No matter how he dresses up, he can't hide his poverty. Mixing an ignorant local tyrant with a group of senior intellectuals, no matter how knowledgeable he pretends to be, will expose his ignorance as soon as he opens his mouth.

The same is true of domestic independent brand cars. Although they have worked hard and made some progress in recent years, they are still far behind or even incomparable compared with the truly powerful joint venture car companies.

I believe that the fanatical domestic powder is definitely not satisfactory, so I might as well use some facts to demonstrate it.

First, let's look at the design of domestic cars. At present, many independent brand car companies hire designers from well-known foreign car companies as their chief designers with high salaries to improve the design level of cars. But look carefully, almost all domestic cars have the shadow of foreign models to some extent, and there are very few models with their own unique design style. Not to mention those car companies that specialize in plagiarism. It should be said that domestic cars are still in the stage of imitation and plagiarism, and there is still a certain distance from the real design.

Let's take a look at the manufacturing process and quality control of domestic cars. It should be said that with the improvement of China's overall machinery manufacturing level, the manufacturing process level and quality control of independent brand car companies have also made great progress, and the four major processes of automobile manufacturing are not lost to joint venture car companies in hardware. However, there is still a certain gap between domestic and joint ventures in dealing with some details. For example, the stamping of car body steel plate, almost all the molds used are imported; In the anti-rust treatment of the car body, even if the same steel plate is used, the joint venture car company is obviously more corrosion-resistant; In terms of the assembly technology of the car body, Volkswagen put forward the "two-millimeter project" decades ago, that is, the length of the assembled car body is no more than two millimeters from the design size. How many car companies can do this now? There is also the sound insulation and NVH treatment of the car. The joint venture car is obviously superior to the domestic car. And so on, it should be said that joint venture car companies have more experience in building cars and handle the details more perfectly.

As for the adjustment level of cars, the gap in this respect is even greater. Now there is a famous saying on the Internet: The efforts of three generations should not cost you ten years of hard study. Those century-old car companies have hundreds of years of experience in building cars and accumulated a lot of car calibration data, so they can tune out almost perfect cars. The birth and development of domestic cars is only ten years. Whether it is car-building experience or data accumulation, how can it be compared with a century-old car company? Therefore, even if the domestic car and the joint venture car are almost the same in hardware, the difference in use and adjustment is still very obvious. We often criticize Volkswagen's dual clutch gearbox for its poor performance and high failure rate. But compared with all other car companies' dual-clutch gearboxes, Volkswagen's dual-clutch gearboxes have the best performance and the most reliable quality. The dual-clutch gearboxes of some domestic cars can never be described as "garbage". There is also Aisin's automatic gearbox, which is available in many domestic cars, but it is far from Toyota in terms of shift smoothness and fuel consumption level of the whole vehicle.

Finally, talk about auto parts. Many people may not know that, in fact, the high technology in automobiles is not in the hands of automobile enterprises, but in the hands of auto parts suppliers, such as Bosch, ZF, Continental, Aisin Seiki, and Denso Japan. Many car companies are actually just a simple assembly plant, that is, manufacturing a car shell, and other components are bought in buy buy, such as engine, gearbox, chassis and various electronic equipment. Let's take the engine as an example. In the early years, Mitsubishi engine supported many domestic car companies, and now the engines used by many car companies are modified on the basis of this engine. Even though some car companies now claim to independently develop engines, most of them are reverse imitations, and few of them can really independently develop engines, and many parts depend on suppliers. Advanced engines of joint venture car companies abound, and the performance of domestic engines is exhausted in all aspects.

There are also automobile gearboxes, especially automatic gearboxes, which rely almost entirely on Aisin, ZF and Gatco. But they are all controlled by foreign big car companies, and naturally they won't sell you the best things, so all we get are second-rate or even third-rate products. Almost all electronic control systems are made by Bosch and Denso. Without these two companies, domestic car companies are almost wiped out, and they are really "stuck" enterprises, just like the chip industry. Chassis technology is more complicated. It can be said that none of the domestic car companies have the technology of independent research and development of chassis, but they are all imitation or reverse joint venture car companies. There is another important point. Because our automobile development level is low, these auto parts suppliers are unwilling to provide us with the most advanced technology, and at the same time we are unable to bargain with them, so many times we have to accept the fact that the quality is low and the price is high.

Therefore, we should stop imagining that domestic cars can completely rival and surpass joint venture cars. It's impossible. At least in the foreseeable years, this transcendence is unrealistic. Let's take a very common model for example. The previous generation Volkswagen Jetta, I can say responsibly that none of the domestic models below100000 yuan can surpass it in driving quality. Don't forget that it is the product of the last century, which shows how big our gap is. Why is everyone willing to choose Volkswagen as a taxi? This is because they are strong and durable. Some people say that domestic cars also take taxis and can travel tens of millions of kilometers. However, after hundreds of thousands of kilometers, the difference in driving texture and failure rate of cars is extremely obvious.

Some people will say that Lao Hou is unpatriotic and is kneeling for the joint venture car companies. In fact, Lao Hou is a very patriotic person with a strong feeling of home and country. But patriotism does not mean blind self-confidence or even arrogance, but we should face up to the gap, find ways to narrow it, and strive to catch up. Realistically speaking, domestic cars are still in the stage of catching up and imitating, and they are still picking up people's wisdom instead of independent innovation. A large number of electronic configurations are piled up on domestic cars to highlight the sense of technology and sophistication of cars, but anyone who knows a little about cars knows that these electronic configurations are actually the least valuable. But it really affects the mechanical quality and safety performance of the car, and we have to work hard to make progress.

But let's not underestimate ourselves. "There is still a long way to go in Xiu Yuan, and I will search for it." On the long road, domestic car companies have been working hard and achieved relatively excellent results. Especially in the field of new energy, the overtaking effect in corners is quite obvious, and it is indeed better than joint venture vehicles in some aspects. It should be said that domestic cars still have a very obvious cost-effective advantage for cars below100000 yuan and SUV models ranging from10000 to150000 yuan. Going up, it is basically the world of joint venture cars. I believe that in the near future, self-owned brand cars will definitely do better and completely surpass joint venture cars.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.