The BYD L3 is a 4-door sedan from Byd, built from 2010 to 2015, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: 1.5 L BYD473QE I4.
The background
The BYD L3 (or BYD F5 and BYD New F3 in Latin America) is a compact car manufactured by BYD Co., Ltd., a Chinese automobile manufacturer based in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. Like the G3, BYD L3 is similar to the Toyota Corolla E120. A torsion beam is used as the rear suspension, MacPherson struts are installed in front, and the brakes on all wheels are disc.
The engineering
Power comes from 1.5 L BYD473QE I4; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1210 kg. It shifts through a 5-speed manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Dual clutch / DCT / Continuously Variable Transmission / CVT. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2615 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Nissan Leaf, the Jeep Grand Cherokee, the Lexus LFA — show what else the money bought that year. Its Byd stablemates include the BYD 8TT and the BYD Atto 2.