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Nearly halfway through November, car companies have released October sales figures. According to Henglian statistics, Volkswagen Passat still won the top spot in the B-tier market in October. Data show that SAIC-Volkswagen's new-generation Passat delivered 21408 vehicles in October, up nearly 43% from a year earlier, ranking first in class B car sales in April and maintaining a year-on-year growth of more than 25% in recent May.

It has to be said that Passat's gold-lettered signboard, which has been in the domestic market for 20 years, still has a strong appeal, even if the all-new Passat remains the same. If you look carefully, you can see that the Passat has been kept at more than 20,000 over the past four months.

In fact, since the launch of the new Accord, Volkswagen Passat has been left behind and occupied the dominant position by the Accord for many months in a row. Since the Accord suffered a "stall door", sales have obviously slipped, and now it remains below 20,000 units, but it is still the second class B model.

It is worth noting that since the release of Passat's test results in mid-October, the news of being rated as bad has been widely discussed, and many netizens have criticized it. After all, Passat in the frontal 25% offset collision, the A-pillar seriously raised upward, almost broken, and the main driving frame is obviously deformed, the airbag does not play a protective role at all, the overall performance is really disappointing. Volkswagen Passat was supposed to cool off as soon as the data from China Insurance Research were released, but until October, Passat's sales data remained at more than 20,000 units, up 43% from a year earlier.

For the domestic auto market, even though many models have exposed a lot of negative news, they still cannot escape the law of "true fragrance". For example, the price increase of Lexus, the stall of Accord and the bending of Passat's A-pillar still gain a lot of consumer support.

Of course, for real consumers, they will not pay too much attention to the test results of the China Insurance Research Institute, because it is actually a very professional view of the collision results, except for those in the industry and those who care about automobiles. Few consumers who are willing to buy can understand it.

In addition, as the first joint venture brand to enter the domestic market and the largest sales volume, Volkswagen has also given many consumers confidence that high sales is a good car, otherwise how could so many people buy it? Therefore, the belief power of the masses still exists.

At the same time, coupled with the terminal discount up to 25000, the body size is almost higher than the same class of models, so in the domestic market, a large, preferential, or Volkswagen, and how many consumers will not choose.

In fact, from the Passat anti-Accord, or Accord anti-surpass Passat is not surprising, after all, the two models are currently the best-selling B-class cars, the difference between the two is not big. As a Volkswagen "Gemini", Volkswagen Maiteng, which often ranks first in the B-class sedan market, has been replaced by the Accord. Since 2019, the market performance of Maiteng appears to be a little weak. Now, Passat has highlighted its spirit. When should Maiteng recover?

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