15款怀才不遇的低调好车

伟大的气质

    它们不会登上汽车杂志的封面，也不会出现在“超级碗”大赛（Super Bowl）的广告里。即便是在经销商的门店里，它们也只是停在不起眼的地方，把展厅让给更新、更潮的车型。它们不会引起车迷的阵阵尖叫，也不至于让其他车主羡慕嫉妒恨，总之它们并不是汽车世界的宠儿，而是容易受到冷落的失意者。

    然而就价值而言，这些车型无与伦比。如果把价格、使用费用（包括折旧和保险）和转售价值计算在内，再乘以驾驶乐趣这个系数，你会发现它们都堪称王牌车型。

    首先做一下归纳：1、亚洲车打败了美国车。在《消费者报告》（Consumer Report）杂志评选出的各级别最佳价值车型中，有37款是亚洲车，只有5款是美国车，而且其中还有2款是全尺寸皮卡。2、并不是越大越好。中小型的轿车和SUV的价值很可能优于大型的豪华轿车及SUV，因为前者的采购价格更低，续航里程也更长。3、二线品牌的得分可能超过某些一线知名品牌。比如起亚（Kia）、斯巴鲁（Subaru）、马自达（Mazda）和大众（Volkswagen）四家在我们榜单上的车型合计要比通用（General Motors）、福特（Ford）、克莱斯勒（Chrysler）合计超出一倍还多。

    本榜单排名不分先后，上榜车型主要根据《消费者报告》、专业汽车网站Edmunds.com等媒体的分析，另外还结合了我本人的亲身体验。在此，谨为大家列出其中15款低调的高品质汽车。

They've got great personalities

    They don't get featured on the covers of car magazines or feted in Super Bowl commercials. At dealer lots, they get parked in the back while newer, glitzier models are showcased in the showroom. They won't get you many oohs and ahs from the car pool kids, or a thumbs-up from other drivers. Face it -- these are the wallflowers of the auto world.

    But when it comes to value, you can't beat these cars. After you consider purchase price, operating costs (including depreciation and insurance), and resale value -- and then multiply by the fun-to-drive factor -- they're all aces.

    A few generalizations: 1.) Asian makes beat domestic. Consumer Reports ranked 37 Asian cars among the best values in their class vs. just five American models -- two of them full-size pickups. 2.) Bigger is not better. Small and midsize cars and SUVs are much more likely to represent a good value than large and luxury sedans and SUVs because of lower purchase price and better mileage. 3.) Second-tier brands can outscore better-known ones. Kia, Subaru, Mazda, and Volkswagen combined placed more than twice as many cars on our list as General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler together.

    This list, in no particular order, is based on analysis by Consumer Reports, and others including Edmunds.com, and leavened by my own personal experience. Herewith, some low-profile vehicles that score high in value:

本田飞度

    无论怎么计算，本田飞度（Honda Fit）的价值都是顶尖中的顶尖。它尺寸不大，空间却不小。同时，它入门价格低，续航里程远，而且可靠性出色。这款小车在泰国、巴西、印度、英国、中国、菲律宾和日本都有生产，但不包括北美，这也解释了本田飞度为何在美国如此稀少。如果本田在美国也开始生产飞度，并像在其他市场上一样将其重命名为Jazz（爵士），那么它很可能会吸引大量的买家。

Honda Fit

    In any value calculation, the Fit ranks at the top of the top. A big car with a small package, it carries a low entry price, gets great gas mileage, and delivers excellent reliability. Honda builds them in Thailand, Brazil, India, England, China, the Philippines, and Japan -- but not in North America, which helps explain their scarcity here. If Honda built the Fit in the U.S. and renamed it the Jazz, as it has in other markets, it might start a stampede of buyers.