January 2020 car sales rankings: Xuan Yi won the crown Passat fell out of the top ten

Recently, the domestic passenger car market, the major automobile enterprises in January 2020 sales report card came out one after another, the Gaijin Automotive Research Institute according to the initial draft released by the Passenger Vehicle Association to organize the January 2020 passenger car sales rankings, and for the monthly passenger car sales of the overall market and the three major segments of the market for a brief analysis. (Note: The data in the article are narrowly defined as wholesale passenger car sales)

Overall:? Overall passenger car sales fell 21% year-on-year (production and sales query)

In January 2020, passenger car market sales achieved 1.597 million units, down 21% from the same period last year of 2.023 million units.SUVs fell less than sedans, with SUV market share of 48.5% in January, larger than the sedan market share of 46.6%, and the MPV market share fell to 4.9%.

January by the impact of the Chinese New Year factors, the working day is reduced, the passenger car market production and sales show a sharp decline in January passenger car production 1,392,000 units, down 29% compared with January 2019, 205,000 units less than the wholesale volume, manufacturers inventory further reduced. 45,000 new energy passenger car wholesale sales in January, a decline of 51.3% year-on-year, compared with last year's December, a decline of 67% The sales of new energy passenger cars in January were 45,000 units, down 51.3% year-on-year and 67% from last December. Among them, sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles were 10,000 units, down 38% year-on-year. Wholesale sales of pure electric vehicles were 35,000 units, down 52 percent year-on-year.

The impact of this epidemic on January is small, but under the dual impact of factory postponement and residential isolation control, the car market in February will be worse, the epidemic is more serious in Hubei Province is an important automobile production base in central China, passenger car production factories of nearly 20, the automobile production in Hubei Province in 2019 accounted for 8.9% of the production of domestic vehicles, will have a greater impact on the production of the Gaixin Automotive Research Institute expects production to fall by more than 30% in the first quarter of 2020, and overall passenger car sales to fall by 6.4% in 2020.

In January 2020, the auto dealer inventory warning index was 62.7%, up 6.3 percentage points from a year earlier and 6.5 percentage points from a year earlier, and the auto dealer inventory warning index has been higher than the warning line for 25 consecutive months.

From the overall TOP30 situation of passenger cars, the number of SUV models exceeded the number of sedan models in January, and only four cars in the SUV, Haval H6, Bo Yue, Qijun and RAV4, saw year-on-year sales declines, while 14 sedans, only the Bora and Suteng rose year-on-year, and MPVs, only the Buick GL8, and the Wuling Hongguang fell out of the TOP30.

Sedans: Passat fell out of the top 10 (production and sales query)

January 2020 sedan market sales realized 744,000 units, down 25.7% year-on-year, the decline rate expanded.

January's Hennessey wholesales 37,000 units, once again overtaking the Rangie and ranking 1,330 units above it. Both the Hennessey and the Rangie use the same sales method of old and new to lower the user's acquisition threshold, and both add pure electric versions to their power forms, making the competition between the two quite fierce.

The Corolla remained third, narrowing the gap to less than 1,000 units. The Corolla achieved good results despite the lack of incentives, and its hybrid version contributed to its sales, with the Corolla accounting for 46 percent of overall FAW Toyota sales in January. Corolla's sister model Leyline also entered the top ten in January, ranking sixth, after the new Leyline replacement went on sale in May 2019, sales remained above 20,000 units for seven consecutive months starting in July, relative to Corolla whose terminal has a small number of concessions, which also gives it some opportunities.

Autonomous cars in the Dihao and Rongwei i5 re-entered the top ten, Geely car in only Dihao and Boyue 2 sales more than 20,000 units. Chevrolet's Cruze also entered the top ten, listed less than a year ago, with excellent value, as well as terminal larger discounts, achieved relatively good results. The Passat fell from sixth place in December 2019 to thirteenth in January 2020, down 4.1 percent year-on-year, or in some way related to the exposure of the CPS.

SUV: Touareg falls out of the top 20 (production and sales query)

SUV market sales in January 2020 achieved 774,000 units, down 13.3% year-on-year.

January SUV list compared to last December, six new entries, relative to December new Hao Ying, VS5, Tango, Colorado, Haval F7, Hananda, Baojun 510, Audi Q5, Hyundai ix35, Baojun RS-3, Chang'an CS55, Auchan X7 fell out of the list.

The Haval H6, while securing the January sales title with 26,414 units, fell as much as 41.3 percent year-on-year. In December last year, a new Haval H6?GT version was launched, but the launch of the add-on model still struggled to hide its sharp decline. As a sales bearer for Great Wall Motors, it was a direct drag on Great Wall Motor's sales, with Great Wall falling 33.3 percent year-on-year in January.

Boyue also improved its ranking in January from last December, ranking second in January, with its dual-vehicle strategy and the Boyue Pro, which was launched in September 2019, contributing to the Boyue family's sales improvement. The independent brand's GS4 also made it into the top 10. As a once popular model, the GS4 began to decline in sales as more and more competitors came to the market, and with the launch of the all-new GS4 in November last year, sales began to rebound, with a 133% year-on-year increase in January. The GS4, which is based on a new platform, has been comprehensively upgraded.

Besides the Passat, the Tuguan, which also performed poorly in the CPSR test, fell out of the Top 20, and SAIC Volkswagen's sales plummeted,?with wholesale volume of just 113,000 units in January, a 40.5 percent year-on-year plunge.

MPV:? Buick GL8 over Wuling Hongguang to get the first (production and sales query)

January 2020 MPV market sales realized 79,000 units, down 38.2% year-on-year, the decline increased.

Buick GL8 year-on-year growth of 68% to the first place, Odyssey year-on-year increase of 26%, which is mainly dependent on the growth of sales of hybrid models, so far Odyssey's fuel car is still only the national five emission standards, for the Buick GL8's fuel car, but also a growth opportunity.

Wuling Hongguang declined 70 percent year-on-year, falling to second place in the rankings. In addition to the Wuling Hongguang, SAIC-GM-Wuling's Baojun 730 as well as the Baojun 360 showed year-on-year declines of 79 percent and 92 percent, respectively. With the market share of low-end MPVs constantly decreasing, SAIC-GM-Wuling formally released the new Baojun brand in April last year and activated the Diamond Label, and the subsequent MPVs imported were RM-5, which was the first MPV to be introduced into China. 5.

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