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SAIC Audi has not yet released a model, but the company has accelerated its model development plan. After SAIC Audi officially announced that the first model under the brand will be Audi A7L, there have been documents exposed recently. The second model of the brand has been confirmed and will be mixed with Volkswagen Touang for production.

According to online auto market media reports, SAIC Audi C-class SUV technical transformation project has started, the new car will be put into production in June 2022, this is another SAIC Audi model after Audi A7L.

According to the known information, the Audi C-class SUV model plan will transform the existing process equipment in the production workshop on the basis of the existing workshop, auxiliary facilities and production process of Phase II of SAIC Volkswagen Ningbo Plant.

At the same time, this model will be mixed with Volkswagen Touang production line, planned annual production capacity of 75,000 vehicles, subsequent flexible adjustment of model output according to market demand, meaning that SAIC Audi C-class SUV size and Volkswagen Touang the same level, but the overall size may be larger.

According to previous media reports, SAIC Audi's second model may be Audi Q7 or Q8, but a suspected Audi C-class SUV real car map taken from the online car market is obviously wider and larger than the Audi Q7 behind, so it is speculated that the new car will be Audi's latest flagship model Q9.

The Audi Q9 model may be unfamiliar, but it was actually registered as a trademark by Audi as early as 2013. According to other foreign media, Audi Q9 concept car may be unveiled at the 2021 Shanghai Auto Show in April.

At the same time, the overseas media also exposed Audi Q9 road test spy photos, the new car with "shell" Volkswagen mid-term change to test, according to the photographer who took spy photos, this model of camouflage pattern is not the European Audi test car common pattern, but the pattern used by the Chinese test car, from the Peugeot on the front face of the model can be seen even "four-ring" Audi. To sum up, SAIC Audi C-class SUV will be Q9 is very likely.

As the current market becomes more popular for larger luxury SUV models, Audi Q8, which is positioned as a coupe, obviously cannot compete with the models of the other two German luxury car manufacturers, so launching a larger and more luxurious model than Q7 will also be Audi's demand.

In addition, in order to promote the progress of SAIC Audi, there are also media reports that Jia Mingdi, the general manager of SAIC Volkswagen Sales Company, will step down from the marketing and sales management of Volkswagen brand in the near future and will be transferred to the general manager of SAIC Audi to focus on the management of SAIC Audi.

In response to this report, SAIC Volkswagen did not give an official reply, but a number of media confirmed the authenticity of the news after confirming with two executives.

Jia Mingdi, who joined Shanghai Volkswagen in 1998, has made remarkable achievements during his second term of office, and SAIC Group has entrusted Jia Mingdi with such an important task as SAIC Audi, which can also be seen that SAIC Group attaches importance to SAIC Audi.

According to the data, the total sales volume of Audi brand in China in 2020 is 726,300 vehicles, which is significantly lower than BMW's 777,400 vehicles (up 7.4%) and Mercedes-Benz's 774,400 vehicles (up 11.7%) in China, although it has achieved a year-on-year growth of 5.4%.

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