My Trumpchi GM8 has traveled 20,000 kilometers. It’s time to tell me how I feel about it.

During the National Day holiday, I took my family on a trip to Guangxi in the GM8 I bought two years ago. Before setting off, I took a look at its accumulated mileage. It was 19,000 kilometers. If this trip is included, it would have exceeded 20,000 kilometers.

When the GM8 traveled more than 8,000 kilometers, I was thinking about writing a 10,000-kilometer usage report for it, but due to successive business trips, I forgot about it. When it traveled 14,000 kilometers, I also thought about writing a 15,000-kilometer usage report for it, but I forgot about it again.

This time, because I participated in a car owner event organized by Trumpchi some time ago, I took this 20,000-kilometer usage report as homework, and built a "Trumpchi GM8? Twenty Thousand Miles" that day. "Kilometer usage experience" document.

Okay, I finally didn’t forget it now.

The reason why I am so forgetful is probably not because I am old, but because Trumpchi GM8 is not a vehicle that I use frequently. It took more than two years to travel more than 20,000 kilometers. I guess everyone knows what happened. I also have a small car that has traveled 60,000 kilometers when it was three years old.

I previously wrote a car pick-up assignment for GM8, in which I mentioned that I bought GM8 to facilitate family travel. Such usage scenarios destined Trumpchi GM8 to be the "overlord" of the garage. But also because of this positioning, most of the 20,000 kilometers it traveled were filled with laughter and laughter. It can be said that every mile it traveled has a memory point for my family.

For example, on a boring weekend, we will drive more than an hour from Foshan to Lianhua Mountain in Guangzhou, just to eat the roast chicken and reservoir fish there;

For example, we often drive for hours on the highway to Xiqiao Mountain just to have Cantonese-style morning tea at the foot of the mountain. The tolls and gas expenses for the round trip are actually worth half the price of tea;

The most important task of GM8 is to take us back to our hometown, especially my mother who has to go back to burn incense and worship Buddha on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year;

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▲Many people think that a five-seater car is enough for a family of five, but in my experience, families with children still need to have their own car. Heaven and earth, it only needs a third row of seats, otherwise, even a five-seater car as big as the BMW X5 will not be enough.

I am sitting in front of the computer typing at this moment. When I think back to the past two years at GM8, the corners of my mouth can’t help but curl up slightly. This should be the physiological reaction of my body secreting a large amount of endorphins. What? Don’t you know what endorphins are? You can search it on Google, and I can only tell you that it has an alias called "happiness hormone".

Yes, for me and my family, Trumpchi GM8 feels like home.

In that car delivery report, I mentioned two reasons for purchasing the Trumpchi GM8: First, my family has a relatively large population and there is a rigid demand for a seven-seater car; second, I want Let’s see if independent brands have the ability to build a high-end model. In 2018, there were not many models among independent brands that exceeded 200,000 yuan, and Trumpchi GM8 was considered a relatively representative one.

▲To this day, the sales of Trumpchi GM8 are still very hot, with the average monthly sales volume being about 3,000 units, which is not easy for a model with a main sales volume of more than 200,000 units.

The former reason made me want to buy a large seven-seater MPV, and the latter reason made me choose Trumpchi GM8 among many MPVs. You know, what it beat was not the MPVs of Maxus and JAC, but the Buick GL8 and Honda Odyssey. At that time, my mother gave me a budget of 250,000. At this price, I could buy the mid-to-high-end versions of the GM8, as well as the more entry-level versions of the GL8 and Odyssey.

Of course, no one’s money comes from the wind, and editors like me are even more incapable of using their own money to promote the development of the automobile industry, even if it is what I have worked so hard to write. This manuscript only earned me a few hundred royalties. The fundamental reason that prompted me to buy the GM8 is that I think it is a high-end model.

This kind of self-confidence allows me to hold my head high even if I meet the "price increase king" on a narrow road.

This high-end comes from two aspects. First, it can make passers-by feel that it is an expensive car.

I have mentioned before that because my sister is a tourist, the GM8 at home has to take on some business reception work from time to time. Among them, there is a government department that needs to rent seven seats from my sister on a regular basis. The commercial vehicle went to the countryside to do research.

Due to various reasons, this department has special requirements for vehicles - the price cannot exceed 200,000, which immediately excludes the Buick GL8, which is most commonly used in business receptions. Before we bought the GM8, my sister had been giving them the Maxus G10. The reason was nothing else. At that time, China Car Rental had only one commercial vehicle with a price of less than 200,000 yuan. In fact, there were very few models with less than 200,000 yuan in the entire business MPV market.

After buying the GM8, in order to save the car rental fee, my sister directly arranged to give the GM8 to them, but things did not go well. They refused on the grounds that the car did not look like it cost 200,000 yuan. The following cars. We were a little speechless at that time and didn't know whether to cry or laugh. We should cry because we had to continue to pay more for car rentals, but we should laugh because we didn't buy the wrong car.

Later, after my sister explained everything, they were willing to use our GM8, and since then, our GM8 has become their designated car every time they go to the countryside for research. This is of course what we expected. After all, the comfort of Trumpchi GM8 is not comparable to that of Maxus G10.

There are many people who "misunderstand" my GM8.

Every time I meet acquaintances when I go back to my hometown, they will ask: "What kind of car is this and how much does it cost?" Behind this sentence, there is usually another sentence - "It shouldn't be cheap, right?" "In the past, when I drove my car back, they would just ask me knowingly: "Oh, are you back?" Now, the arrival of GM8 gives me an extra sense of vanity every time I go back to my hometown.

I am not a vain person, and GM8 cannot prove that I am rich and that I live better than others. However, even if you buy a piece of clothing for the purpose of "keeping warm", if someone later says that the clothes you bought are good-looking, you will feel happy. This may be the added value of the product - the benefits you didn't expect to get when you bought it, but you get it when you use it.

Products that can generate added value are all good products! Just like you go to the Ritz-Carlton to enjoy afternoon tea, stay at the Bulgari Hotel for one night, and carry a Hermès bag, you can not only eat well, sleep well, and carry well, but also prove that you are famous. (Hey, no, it seems that I may not be able to eat well and sleep well...)

This kind of recognition from others can actually help me build confidence.

Before I decided to buy the GM8, many people advised me to be more pragmatic: "Buy a product that is unmistakable, such as Honda's Odyssey. Although it is not as luxurious and quality-conscious as the GM8, the peripherals There are many car owners, and there will definitely be no problem with the quality. If you spend 200,000 yuan on a self-owned brand car, it’s like signing a betting agreement. You won’t regret it later, so why bother?”

Although due to the persistence of car reviewers, I still firmly believe that my choice is not wrong, but to be honest, when entering the password at the POS machine, my hands will still shake, and I will still confirm with my mother again and again: "I enter the password. Huh? Once you pay, you can’t return the car.”

Facts have proved that I did not make the wrong decision, and the best proof of this is not other people’s approval, but what GM8 has brought to us. Comfortable, this is another aspect that reflects its high-end quality. After all, the beautiful appearance is only for others to see. We sitting in the car can only enjoy its comfort.

The most practical way to determine whether a car is comfortable or not is to see if you are willing to stay in it for more than ten hours.

As mentioned above, during the National Day holiday not long ago, a group of seven of us set out from Xiajiao to Jincheng River in Hechi, Guangxi. The total length of this journey is 700 kilometers. We would have to go there if there was no traffic jam. 7 and a half hours, but the highway congestion abruptly extended this time to 12 hours - from 3 o'clock in the afternoon to 3 o'clock in the morning.

Being on the road for 12 hours is quite bearable for the younger generation like us, but for the elderly like my mother, it may be a bit too much. Even if it is as smooth as a high-speed train or an airplane, it is probably not an easy task for an elderly person to sit on it for seven or eight hours straight. After all, when we are stuck in traffic jams, we not only have to stop and go, but we also encounter uneven and bumpy road conditions.

Before departure, we persuaded my old Buddha to travel to a place closer to home, but she insisted, and I can’t say more about the reason. She said she couldn’t bear it anymore, so she went to the service area to do some activities. Get enough rest before leaving. Unable to resist her, we had no choice but to comply with her wishes. Of course, another major foundation gained from her is my trust in the comfort of GM8.

As a result, GM8 did not disappoint my expectations. In these 12 hours, we went to the service area no more than 3 times, and we did not rest in the service area these 3 times. We went to the toilet, refueled and set off immediately. My mother fell asleep so deeply in the car that on the second day after arriving, she didn’t even catch up on her sleep, but just yelled at us to take her to play.

These two airline seats are really not covered, they have a hypnotic effect.

The purpose of talking about this is not only to prove that the comfort of GM8 is good, but also to prove one point: after two years and 20,000 kilometers, the comfort of Trumpchi GM8 is still the same as that of a new car. There was no discount at all - there was no constant noise because of age; there was no constant vibration because of increased mileage...

Before I bought the GM8, someone told me: "It is a self-owned brand. Regardless of whether the new car is in good condition, you will regret it after a year or two. "But it turns out that the quality of independent brands can still be trusted - I have two cars in my family, and when it comes to the problem of high-mileage attenuation, Chuan Qi GM8 solves the problem better than another joint venture car (for now).

▲Due to limited capabilities, I didn’t give the GM8 the best treatment. If I didn’t use the car, it would be parked in an open-air parking space exposed to the sun and rain, but even so, its quality is still quite good.

Of course, my GM8 also loses his temper sometimes.

For example, a rubber sleeve fell off its electric door. This rubber sleeve is used to hold the door close button. If it falls off, even if the door is closed, the system will not know and will still continue to remind you. You didn't close the door;

For example, its turn signal, whether it is the left turn signal or the right turn signal, has poor contact. If you accidentally hit a pothole, it will malfunction and remind you to check the lights;

For example, its cup holders will often come loose, especially the center cup holder in the second row, even if You put it away, but with a slight vibration, it bounced open;

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▲The cup holder above has very weak damping and cannot lock the cup holder." Unbridled and free”. It's not scary to have problems with your car. What's scary is that the manufacturer doesn't provide service! In terms of after-sales service, Trumpchi is considered the "leader" among car companies.

▲On the way to a car owner event, a car owner got stuck in his car. In a remote place like Qianhai, Yangjiang, he used Trumpchi’s car owner APP to call for free rescue, and it only took half a day. hours of time.

Actually, these are all small problems. After all, no one is perfect and no one has enough money. But even if it is a small problem, it is something that manufacturers need to pay attention to. After all, for many car owners, no matter how small the problem is, It will take them time to go to the 4S store to deal with it. Just like my current GM8, there is still a small problem waiting to be solved.

Oh, I forgot to mention a very important thing - does Trumpchi GM8 consume fuel? It really depends on how you drive it. Based on my usage habits, the fuel consumption of GM8 is really not high.

As mentioned above, my car is usually used for traveling, which means that the road conditions are mostly suburban or highway. The long-term comprehensive fuel consumption is as shown in the figure below. Calculated, it only costs about 50 cents per kilometer (it should be noted that I added 95-octane gasoline, while GM8 only requires 92-octane gasoline).

If you drive a GM8 to and from get off work, the fuel consumption must be very high. I have tested it and it is about 12L/100km.

Of course, although the value is large, it does not seem to be very high for a car weighing 2.1 tons. If you want a 7-seater MPV and also need to commute to and from get off work, Trumpchi also has an M6, which you can consider.

It not only takes care of your face, but also takes care of your dignity. I think you no longer need to ask whether independent brands have the ability to make a high-end model. Just be more confident and buy it. .

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This article comes from the author of Autohome Chejiahao and does not represent the views and positions of Autohome.