Lingtuo and Ruiqi 6: Competing products that go against the grain
At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, two manufacturers who have been fighting for many years in the field of pickup trucks launched their respective national six heavy products; Jiangxi Isuzu launched the localized model of the ISUZU brand Lingtuo, and Zhengzhou Nissan launched the belated Ruiqi 6. These two products have made great improvements in terms of product strength, and each has broken through its previous market positioning and strives to cross borders. The difference is that Lingtuo belongs to the dimensionality reduction attack of ISUZU D-MAX products, while Ruiqi 6 is upgraded to fight monsters in the name of Dongfeng LOGO version diesel NAVARA.
Jiangxi Isuzu is actually not good at making face-saving projects or face-saving products. They belong to commercial vehicle manufacturers that are so traditional that they can no longer be traditional. Starting from the earliest Jiangxi Isuzu double-row cabs of its parent company, Jiangling Group, to expand JMC products, Jiangling Ford From Transit Commercial to the soon-to-be-launched ISUZU light truck products, from the design-production-promotion-sales modules, commercial vehicle thinking is deeply rooted in their entire system, which is very similar to the ISUZU brand’s style of focusing on making cars. So when they launched the ISUZU trademark with a VM2.5 engine, if you know this company very well, you can’t help but feel that this is an unprecedented thing.
The products with the ISUZU LOGO on Jiangxi Isuzu’s product line were originally only MU-X Ranger and D-MAX pickups; but due to the intensification of market competition in the past two years, D-MAX’s product sales have been declining repeatedly, and it has fallen from its peak. The nearly 10,000 units of the company have fallen to only half of the current number. This matter cannot but attract the attention of the Sino-Japanese joint venture. After all, D-MAX is the flagship product of the joint venture. It is impossible for the Japanese side to have no requirements for the sales volume of ISUZU trademark vehicles. , so the birth of Lingtuo is not without reason.
Before the launch of the 2019 major facelift D-MAX, there is no visual difference between Lingtuo and D-MAX. Under the same appearance, only the engine compartment is different. After the country implemented the National V emission standards, the original ISUZU 4JK1 engine withdrew from the market because the emission did not meet the standards, so only the D-MAX equipped with 4JJ1 remained in the market.
The high-quality and high-end D-MAX focuses on off-road and pan-outdoor markets, taking into account large companies and industry customers who need a corporate image; while the other pickup, Ramai, undertakes the commercial vehicle route that completes the traffic, and also silently shares the shared part between the two The cost of the product, the two are so peaceful that they are like railroad tracks – although they are very close, they will always be separated; because the product positioning and price range between the two are obviously different and there is a vacancy: D-MAX and D-MAX that can attack the personal market There is a big price difference among Ruimai, which was born purely for business-logistics, and the emergence of Lingtuo is to make up for this gap.
The VM2.5 engine equipped by Lingtuo is actually the engine configured for Landwind vehicles in the early years. Today, Landwind has already lost the lancet and the cloak full of holes. Naturally, I lost my appetite. The birth of Lingtuo was originally to reduce costs, so the VM2.5 in a group fell into the arms-otherwise, how could ISUZU, which is famous for its diesel engines, condescend to use other manufacturers’ power, let alone diesel power.
If we compare VM2.5 with ISUZU’s own 4JK1, we will find that the power data is constantly changing. The maximum torque of both the VM2.5 and 4JK1 of China IV is 320N.M, and the power of 4JK1 is even greater 5KW, and 4JK1 itself has a twin-turbo high-power version for the European market. The power can reach 120KW, and the torque can reach 420N.M. This is quite a good figure. You can see this configuration in Hong Kong. -MAX.
But even if 4JK1 complies with the National V emission standards, Lingtuo will not adopt it, because the product cost is here, and it simply cannot meet the requirements of lowering a price range as a whole. What Lingtuo needs is only one level higher than the magic modification 4JB1 originally loaded by Remax; and this demand VM is naturally easy to deal with, because 4JB1 is too old, older than most of the employees of Jiangxi Isuzu, so go beyond it It’s really nothing.
So this is Lingtuo, a model with ISUZU’s LOGO and a VM core to go to the market; it is what we call a “face” model; its market range is mainly between D-MAX and Ruimai Customer groups, after all, although the ISUZU trademark is weak in the Chinese passenger car market, it is a well-known brand in the commercial vehicle market, so although it has changed the hearts of others, there are still many people flocking to it. Jiangxi Isuzu is responsible for the sales of the entire product line.
This is why Jiangxi Isuzu has just made a “face-worthy” product in a field that it is not good at.
The situation of Zhengzhou Nissan’s Ruiqi 6 is exactly the opposite; Ruiqi 6 uses the Dongfeng standard, but the core is indeed the resources of the Nissan Navara pickup, and the stamping parts of the whole vehicle are shared with the Navara pickup. The line was born on an assembly line, and the engine loaded is the M9T of Dongfeng Qingfa—and the M9T is the Dongfeng version of the YS23DDT diesel engine that Dongfeng Qingfa introduced to China from Renault.
Nissan NAVARA Navara pickups are equipped with three types of power in the global market: QR25 gasoline engine, Renault YS23DDT diesel engine and Nissan YD25 high-power version diesel engine. The global distribution of these three engines in Nissan is different. In Asia Pacific, it is mainly Nissan’s YD25, in Europe, it is mainly YS23DDT, in Central America and Latin America, there are both, and in China, there is only QR25.
Although the QR25 self-priming gasoline engine is not bad in the same type of products, it can even be said to be a very good product; but it is indeed the weakest engine in NAVARA’s global product series, only because of the particularity of the Chinese market. This is contrary to the trend of Nissan’s global market; however, the Renault YS23DDT diesel engine with relatively the best performance is not launched in China because of domestic unfriendliness to diesel engines and the distribution of interests within the group. Consumers are dissatisfied. Although the sales volume of NAVARA Navara proves that its strategy in the Chinese market is correct, the market demand for diesel engines has never stopped.
Nissan isn’t as flexible with this product as the more dull-looking Isuzu.
But the advantage of self-owned brands lies in the flexibility of products; this is difficult for joint venture brands, so when we look at Ruiqi 6, we will find that it has actually become a Chinese version of diesel NAVARA Pull; from the core power system to the stamped cover parts of the whole vehicle, the most important features are all on the product line. If there is a difference, it is that in the choice of AT, the Rich 6 will be equipped with ZF’s 8-speed transmission Boxes and different interiors, while the original diesel version of NAVARA Navara uses a 7-speed gearbox from JATCO.
ZF’s 8-speed has become the standard configuration of high-end models of domestic independent brands. The advantage of everyone using it is that the assembly volume is large, and after-sales maintenance will be more worry-free. As for the interior, the consistent style of self-owned brands is to use all the new things that can be used, but it’s hard to say whether you like the style. Anyway, Nissan’s pickup style, Isuzu’s pickup style, and even Toyota’s Mitsubishi’s Mazda’s, look. There are many people who are not pleasing to the eye, and this completely personal thing cannot be generalized.
But when it comes to the core of the Rich 6, it does achieve the essence of most diesel NAVARA Navarra; it seems that there is a little bit of Dongfeng that Nissan does not do, and this may be the reason why the Rich 6 saw these two In 2010, NAVARA Navara was weak in power but could be sold in the individual user market, and the diesel version has always been a product that many people are striving for. vast market.
In terms of product power itself, the routes of Ruiqi 6 and Lingtuo are reversed, and it can also be said that they are doing “inside” engineering; this can be clearly seen from the comparison of the power systems of the two, VM2.5 and M9T However, in terms of LOGO, Isuzu Isuzu is obviously stronger than Dongfeng, and the brand itself means product strength, which is the shrewdness of Suzutuo. It is said that there is a considerable overlap between the two, so this is our subject: “Ruiqi 6 Vs Lingtuo: which one do you need for the lining or the face?”
Judging from the comparison of the power systems of Lingtuo and Rich 6, M9T is at least one generation ahead of VM2.5; this is the core difference between the two. The maximum torque still reaches 380N.M. This data is the same standard as the 4JJ1 of the ISUZU 3.0T of the previous National IV version, and the M9T can reach the peak torque at 1500rpm and continue to 2750rpm. This data is more than 4JJ1 Yes, it can be said that it is very good among similar products.
The torque of the M9T is above 300 NM in the range of about 1200-3600rpm, which also makes the speed-up and mid-way re-acceleration ability of the Rich 6 very good.
Of course, it is objectively said that 4JJ1 is already a relatively old product, and the tuning is very conservative, but the potential of 4JJ1 will surprise you at any time after its seal is lifted; the torque of my own National IV 4JJ1 is put at 530N .M, the off-road vehicle with the ability to start and re-accelerate in the middle is also invincible. The meaning of saying this can actually prove from another aspect that the power feeling brought to you by the M9T, which can reach 380N.M at 1500rpm, is also quite surging.
What’s interesting is that the power of the same engine is generally higher than that of low emissions when the emission level is higher; the 4JJ1 of the National IV is only 380N.M, and the National V is 430N.M; the National V of the VM2.5 is 95KW320N.M, When it comes to China VI, it rises to 110KW360N.M. This data is only 10KW smaller than Jiangxi Isuzu’s popular Huadan RZ4E, but the torque is the same.
Therefore, although the VM2.5 machine is not the peak of the times, at least it has not been left far behind in terms of technical data. The small gap actually proves its competitiveness—the most important thing is its successful pull The core is to lower the price of Lingtuo and fill the gap between D-MAX and Ruimai.
In 2017, the brand new ISUZU MU-X was launched. In addition to being consistent with the Thai version in appearance, the most important change is to completely change the interior according to the Chinese market—a fully softened interior, which is for the Chinese specially developed for taste. Subsequently, the D-MAX, which underwent a major facelift in 2019, also changed this set of interiors to meet the needs of individual user groups; and the new Lingtuo also changed this set of interiors when it was launched, naturally for its own use at home and business. The competitiveness of the two lines of the market; therefore, the visible gap between the current Lingtuo and D-MAX, except for the “artificial” difference of continuing to use the appearance of the old D-MAX, even the interior is completely the same of.
The interior of Lingtuo makes it have an asymmetrical advantage in comparison with the Rich 6; compared with the two, the interior level of the Rich 6 is obviously one level worse, and the texture in the photos is stronger than the reality What’s interesting is that if you want to connect to the carplay of Rich 6, you still need to download a program, which is different from the system from Lingtuo’s mux, and the 360 system of Rich 6 is not as good in terms of video resolution and The effect is a notch lower than that of Ling Tuo.
In terms of driving experience, the driving feeling of both manual transmissions is average, and the clarity of the gears, the smoothness of shifting, and the feel of shifting are not outstanding, but considering that the Rich 6 is currently only an engineering prototype. , this situation will change after the actual mass production.
In terms of automatic transmission, Lingtuo adopts the French PPS 6-speed transmission. Because the Aisin gearbox of ISUZU MU-XD-MAX will undoubtedly cost more, so it will not be used, otherwise it will violate the principle of Lingtuo to explore the market. The automatic transmission of Rich 6 is ZF 8-speed, which is widely used in China. Although Rich 6 has not been installed on the market, but from the application of other domestic products, ZF with more gears is better in terms of power matching and economy. It has its own advantages. For example, the Great Wall H9 pickup truck series has significantly reduced fuel consumption and improved power response rate. This should be a product worth looking forward to.
After Ruiqi 6 is equipped with ZF8 speed, its customer group will also explore the home off-road pan-outdoor market from the previous heavy commercial-logistics, which is similar to D-MAX Lingtuo’s extension from the main home off-road pan-outdoor market to commercial use -The purpose of the logistics market is the same, but the two have adopted completely different routines and arrived at the same lane.
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