The motorcycle circle has been in trouble recently - Honda suddenly released a new car priced at 8,800 yuan, with a 90% similarity to Suzuki UY125. Netizens directly joked: "This is writing the tribute" on their face!" The price was cut off by nearly one-third. Is Honda's operation a "dimensionality reduction strike" or "reducing its own posture"?
1. New car exposure: Even the screw hole position looks like a "replica". Judging from the actual car pictures that leaked, this new Honda car almost copied the classic design of Suzuki UY: the lines of the hawk-eye headlights, shield-shaped front faces, and even the side guards are all the same. After disassembly and comparison, some car friends found that even the rearview mirror installation holes are common to UY. Netizens jokingly said that "you can sell them as original parts by changing the standard." What's even more amazing is that Honda has pushed the price to 8,800 yuan for the first time, which is a full 2,200 yuan lower than UY's 11,000 yuan price, directly targeting the price range of domestic small pedals.
2. Honda’s “price war” logic: grab the market or clear inventory? In the past, Honda has been taking the mid-to-high-end route in the 125cc pedal market, but domestic motorcycle sales have declined this year, and even the magic car PCX160 has begun to reduce prices and promote promotions. The launch of this low-priced new car is obviously aimed at seizing market s
The motorcycle circle has been in trouble recently - Honda suddenly released a new car priced at 8,800 yuan, with a 90% similarity to Suzuki UY125. Netizens directly joked: "This is writing the tribute" on their face!" The price was cut off by nearly one-third. Is Honda's operation a "dimensionality reduction strike" or "reducing its own posture"?
1. New car exposure: Even the screw hole position looks like a "replica". Judging from the actual car pictures that leaked, this new Honda car almost copied the classic design of Suzuki UY: the lines of the hawk-eye headlights, shield-shaped front faces, and even the side guards are all the same. After disassembly and comparison, some car friends found that even the rearview mirror installation holes are common to UY. Netizens jokingly said that "you can sell them as original parts by changing the standard." What's even more amazing is that Honda has pushed the price to 8,800 yuan for the first time, which is a full 2,200 yuan lower than UY's 11,000 yuan price, directly targeting the price range of domestic small pedals.
2. Honda’s “price war” logic: grab the market or clear inventory? In the past, Honda has been taking the mid-to-high-end route in the 125cc pedal market, but domestic motorcycle sales have declined this year, and even the magic car PCX160 has begun to reduce prices and promote promotions. The launch of this low-priced new car is obviously aimed at seizing market share. Industry insiders analyzed that Honda may have adopted a strategy of simplifying configuration: for example, the engine continues to use the old technology, the plastic parts are switched to domestic supply chains, and even the shock absorbers, brakes and other components are downgraded to low-cost solutions. But do consumers buy it? The comment section is already a big deal: "Cheap is cheap, but this 'copying feeling' is too strong!"
3. The owner of Suzuki UY can no longer sit still: "The myth of value preservation" is about to collapse? With its solid and durable reputation, Suzuki UY has always maintained a strong value retention rate in the second-hand market. However, as soon as Honda's "flat replacement" was released, many UY owners began to worry: "Will you cut 2,000 more cars in the future?" Some dealers even revealed that the terminal price of UY in some regions has been secretly reduced by 500-800 yuan to deal with the competition. However, there are also rational voices pointing out that if the quality control of Honda's new car is unstable, it will highlight the reliability of UY: "It can imitate the appearance, but it can't imitate Suzuki's engine technology."
4. Industry secret war: Joint venture brands are forced to "invert" Honda's operation reflects the survival anxiety of joint venture brands. Wuyang Honda and Xindazhou Honda have been squeezed by domestic manufacturers such as Haojue and Qianjiang in recent years, and their market share has continued to shrink. A dealer who did not want to be named revealed: "Selling a car now is like bargaining in the vegetable market, and the profit is as thin as paper." What is more interesting is that the application chart of Honda's new car shows that it is produced by a domestic joint venture factory and is suspected to be a "special model" - this may explain why it can reduce costs, but it also makes people question: Is Honda overdrawing the brand premium?
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5. Consumers can find bargains or take pitfalls? The key is these three points. If you are struggling with whether to buy this "Honda version of UY", you might as well pay attention to three details: one is the engine performance, whether Honda's mature ESP technology is used, or the castrated version of power; the second is the riding texture, and the performance of cheap shock absorption on bad roads may be exposed; the third is the after-sales policy, whether low-priced cars are equipped with shrinking repair outlets. After all, buying a Honda at 8,800 yuan sounds like a pie, but if you get an abnormal noise and leak oil after driving for half a year, it would be really "save a small amount of money and lose a lot of money."
Honda "don't install" this time and directly threw the cost-effectiveness to the table. But motorcycles are not fast-moving consumer goods after all, and the appearance is just the first step, and durability and cycling experience are the kingly ways. Behind this "reproduction war" may be the turning point in the entire industry from "competing for brands" to "competing for bayonets". As for consumers? Let the bullets fly for a while - wait until the first batch of car owners are released before deciding whether it is "really fragrant" or "lightning protection". (over)
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