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The Passenger Association recently announced the ranking list of passenger car manufacturers in January. Affected by the Spring Festival and new coronavirus pneumonia, the sales of passenger cars nationwide in January brought a lot of reduction, among which, the sales volume of nearly 6 automobile enterprises in the top 15 declined by more than 20%.

According to the statistics of the Passenger Association, the sales volume of narrow passenger cars in China reached 1.721 million in January, down 20.4% year-on-year and 19.6% month-on-month. Among them, the sales volume of cars in January was 818,000, down 23.7% year-on-year and 19.7% month-on-month; MPV sales volume was 99,000, down 34.6% year-on-year and 25.2% month-on-month; SUV sales volume was 804,000, down 14.5% year-on-year and 18.8% month-on-month; while sales volume of new energy narrow passenger vehicles was 41,000, down 57.9% year-on-year and 68.4% month-on-month; Generally, there has been a sharp decline in varying degrees.

From the ranking of automobile enterprises, German brand Volkswagen is still in the forefront, but FAW-Volkswagen performance is obviously better than SAIC Volkswagen; Japanese brands except Dongfeng Nissan have risen to different degrees, performance is still better than the overall industry, and independent brands since January this year performance is different, among which two independent automobile enterprises Geely and Great Wall sales fell sharply.

FAW-Volkswagen and SAIC-Volkswagen of German brands performed differently in January this year. SAIC-Volkswagen's sales fell by 19.5% in January this year due to holidays and epidemic diseases, with cumulative sales of only 145,500 vehicles, among which the new Lavida with the highest sales volume fell by more than 20% year-on-year, while Passat did not enter the top 15 on the car list.

FAW-Volkswagen sold 187,000 vehicles in January this year, down 2.1% year-on-year, better than the overall market performance. Since 2019, with its songs, mountains and roads, small SUV shadow detection and road armor have been listed one after another, further exploring the domestic SUV market. In addition, the new brand Jetta and its FAW-Volkswagen Audi also brought sales support, among which Audi A6 and Q5 both rose sharply year-on-year.

General Motors and Hyundai Motor, which used to be in a big decline, further expanded their decline in January this year, with a decline of more than 30%. Although SAIC GM was overtaken by Geely in 2019, Geely also experienced a sharp decline from January this year, keeping SAIC GM in third place, but sales fell by 30.5%. In 2019, SAIC GM's Buick, Chevrolet and Cadillac brands maintained sales through market terminal price reduction, and all of them remained unchanged. Good market feedback.

SAIC GM Wuling is affected by the continuous shrinking market situation of MPV market, resulting in continuous decline in sales volume. In January this year, MPV market became the largest decline in sales volume among the three major model plates, so that MPV market still has a great impact in the cold winter of automobile market. It is worth mentioning that affected by the epidemic situation, SAIC GM Wuling still puts prevention and control in the first place and converts the production line into masks.

In addition, Korean brand Beijing Hyundai with "price war" in the domestic sales can still keep in the top 15 car companies, but in recent years sales and market share is declining day by day, January this year sales is down 40.1%, become one of the more severe decline in the ranking of this year's car companies.

Japanese brand aspect, January this year average insurance is better than the overall market, but also shows the situation of rising against the trend. Except Dongfeng Nissan and FAW Toyota, the rest of Guangzhou Automobile Honda, Dongfeng Honda and Guangzhou Automobile Toyota all rose to varying degrees. Dongfeng Nissan fell the most by 10.9%, while Dongfeng Honda rose the most by 21.9%, which was also the largest increase among all brands.

Although Dongfeng Honda achieved a substantial increase in sales volume by Civic and CR-V in January, it can be predicted that Dongfeng Honda, as the hardest hit area affected by the new coronavirus, will continue to delay production and shutdown, and sales volume in February cannot be optimistic; and other Japanese brands may not be able to withstand the impact of the epidemic and decline.

Independent brands in January this year there are four automobile enterprises on the list, among which Great Wall and Geely are affected by the market environment, sales decline seriously, from the two independent automobile brands released January sales data show, Geely, Great Wall January sales decline range is close to 30%, only Chang 'an Automobile maintained a certain range of rise. However, the growth of Chang 'an Automobile in January depends on some surprises, perhaps due to the sales growth of Chang' an CS75 PLUS, which helped its sales reach 75,200 units, up 2.9% year-on-year. In addition, the rising self-owned automobile enterprises also have SAIC passenger cars, January sales accumulated to 51,000 vehicles, a slight decline of 6.5%.

Chery Automobile, which continued to rise in sales at the end of 2019, did not appear in the sales list in January this year, but was occupied by luxury brand Beijing Benz. With monthly sales of 67,500 vehicles, it ranked 12th in the list, with a year-on-year growth of 18.8%. This is not easy to achieve contrarian growth under the current environment. Among them, Mercedes-Benz GLC and Mercedes-Benz E-Class occupy the first place in the list of high-end models respectively.

On the whole, due to the reduction of working days caused by the Spring Festival in January this year, the decline in sales volume is inevitable, but in this environment there was an unexpected outbreak, so it can be inferred that the sales volume in February this year will suffer a heavy drop, so that all big car enterprises in the face of the epidemic are unable to sell too much.

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