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Coincides with the "Golden Nine Silver Ten" traditional sales season, so that the market in September continued the trend of growth in previous months. Retail sales of passenger cars reached 1.91 million units in September, up 7.3 per cent from a year earlier and the highest growth rate of about 8 per cent for three consecutive months in nearly two years, according to the Federation of passengers.

Although September still maintained the trend of growth, and retail sales increased by 12.1% compared with August, this is not high compared with the average month-on-month growth rate of 15% over the past years. In terms of sales in the three major passenger car segments, car sales in September were 929000, up 8.2 per cent year-on-year, 876000 SUV sales, 11.9 per cent year-on-year growth of 106000 MPVs, and 6.3 per cent year-on-year growth. The three major areas will see collective growth again in 2020. It is worth noting that the data on the list are the terminal retail sales counted by the Federation of passengers.

In the best-selling list in the car field, only two independent models are on the list, which shows that the joint venture brand still occupies the dominant position in the domestic passenger car market. Under the brand advantage, the joint venture brand car has also adopted the price-for-volume strategy to achieve substantial growth. Specifically, the ranking of the top three models has remained unchanged for six months, but the sales of the three are distinct.

Among them, Nissan Xuanyi is still in the lead, winning the first place of the month again, with sales of 57548 vehicles in September, up 51.2% from a year earlier, becoming the only model in the month that exceeded 50, 000 vehicles. Has replaced Volkswagen Lang Yi to continue to take the lead, thanks to the Xuanyi model "new and old models" in the same way of sales, achieved better market performance.

Followed by Volkswagen New Lang Yi and Toyota Corolla are in the position of 48000 and 37000 vehicles, in addition to the new Lang Yi to maintain a slight downward trend, Toyota Corolla also achieved a large increase of 41.3% in September, but there is still a big gap to surpass the former.

Among the top 10 cars, in addition to Xuanyi and Carola, Lei Ling, Accord and Civic ranked 7th, 8th and 10th respectively. It means that the Japanese system still holds half of the seats.

Compared with the previous, only the Audi A6 made the list in September. According to the data, Audi A6 sold a total of 18813 vehicles in September, up 37.2% from a year earlier, ranking first among luxury cars.

Compared with the car industry, independent brands still maintain a strong dominant position in the SUV market in September. There are 4 independent models in the top 10 list, of which two independent models occupy the top 10 rankings. However, compared with previous months, the joint venture brand as a whole showed a trend of anti-excess in September.

Among them, Honda CR-V in that month with an absolute advantage, and for the first time surpassed Changan CS75, which has been the second best-selling SUV model in China this year. Since the launch of the Changan CS75PLUS model, the CS75 car series has continued to grow at a high rate, but it obviously lags behind the 43.7% growth rate of the Honda CR-V in September, with a difference of about 2000 vehicles. Among them, Roewe RX5 and Geely Boyue also fell to fifth and seventh place from fourth and fifth place in August, with Geely Boyue sales falling 9.7 per cent to 17513 vehicles in September compared with the same month last year.

At the same time, with the continuous improvement of entry-level models of the joint venture brand SUV, stimulating the steady growth of demand, the market share of the joint venture brand has increased significantly. Honda and Toyota RAV4 both soared year-on-year, with Toyota RAV4 rising to sixth place.

The luxury market of Mercedes-Benz GLC and Audi Q5 still squeeze into the list with monthly sales of 15884 and 15536, continuing to confirm the rapid growth of the luxury car market.

MPV market, even if the overall market scale is not large, but also become the next focus of many brand manufacturers layout areas. Wuling Hongguang's market halo remains the same, with September sales reaching 24000 vehicles, continuing to maintain the first place in MPV sales. After just completing the product update, Buick GL8 sold 20300 vehicles in September, an increase of 31.2% over the same period last year. Buick GL8 is still the leader in joint venture household and business MPV.

Thanks to the upgrading of Ericsson and the expansion of discounts, it has successfully surpassed the Odyssey of the same class, achieving nearly 5000 sales with a year-on-year increase of 116%. Secondly, independent MPV models except BYD Song MAX and Baojun brands, the rest of the independent brands basically show a growth trend.

At present, Volkswagen's market sales are not strong, and its follow-up market performance remains to be seen. SAIC Volkswagen Weiran positioning medium and large MPV, the price is 28.68-399800 yuan, the new car is based on Volkswagen MQB platform, equipped with 2.0T low / high power engine, matched with a 7-speed DSG double clutch gearbox.

From the overall market performance, September market growth performance is more coincided with the "Golden Nine Silver Ten" traditional sales season, to a certain extent, helped to increase this month's sales. In this environment, the head brand and products remain strong, with the recovery of the car market has also entered a rapid growth channel, so there has been a surge in sales. On the other hand, weak brands and products are further suppressed, and the concentration of the market continues to improve. But as the end of the year approaches, automakers will hit their annual targets in a variety of ways and may continue to boost market performance.

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