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According to the latest retail sales statistics of the Federation of passengers, the domestic narrow passenger car market sold 20.146 million vehicles in 2021, an increase of 4.4% over the same period last year. Of this total, car sales were 9.846 million, down 6.4 per cent from the same period last year. 1.079 million MPVs and 9.221 million SUVs were down 1.0 per cent from the same period last year, an increase of 3.0 per cent.

Judging from the car list, Nissan Xuanyi has no doubt to win the annual car sales, and it is also the highest-selling model in the domestic passenger car market, with cumulative sales of 512000 vehicles for the whole year. From the performance of Xuanyi this year, although it was surpassed by Hongguang MINI for one or two months in the second half of the year, it could not shake its position as the top seller. Of course, unlike other models, Xuanyi uses new and old sales together.

In second place were Lang Yi and Hongguang MINI, with cumulative sales of 432000 and 395000 respectively in 2021. It is worth mentioning that in December 2021, Hongguang MINI once again overtook Xuan Yi to become the top seller in the car market and passenger car market. In that month, Hongguang MINI sold 50561 vehicles, while Xuan Yi sold 50492 vehicles, which was the second time that Hongguang MINI overtook Xuan Yi this year.

From the overall list, it is mainly joint venture models, especially Japanese cars. In addition to Xuanyi, which ranked first, Toyota Corolla ranked fourth with 330000 vehicles, while Toyota Leiling ranked eighth with 228000 vehicles, and Camry, ninth, beat Honda Accord to become the top B-class car sales in 2021, with annual sales of 217000 vehicles. Accord's performance was slightly lower than last year, with cumulative sales falling 8.2 per cent to 198000 vehicles from a year earlier.

In terms of luxury models, both the BMW 3-Series and the BMW 5-Series entered the top 15 list, with the BMW 3-Series up 12.1% year-on-year to 170000 and the BMW 5-Series up 8.3% to 172000. In the first-tier luxury brand market, Mercedes-Benz and Audi models have declined to varying degrees because of the epidemic and spare parts supply, while BMW models have performed relatively strongly, with growth in the BMW 3-Series, BMW 5-Series and BMW X3.

In terms of own-brand models, with the exception of Hongguang MINI, Geely Dihao sold 209000 vehicles for the whole year, down 9.7% from the same period last year, while BYD Qin sold 189000 vehicles, up 226.8% from the same period last year. This is the first time BYD Qin has squeezed into the annual list, with most of its sales coming from Qin PLUS DM-i and Qin PLUS EV. If only fuel cars are counted, BYD Qin actually sold only 2421 vehicles.

Let's take a look at the SUV car model list, compared with the car model list, there is a significant increase in the number of autonomous models. Harvard H6 once again won the top spot in SUV sales, and there is no doubt that it relies on three generations of in-house sales, with a total sales of 353000 vehicles in 2021, leading Changan CS75, Honda CR-V and other models. Of course, judging from the monthly performance, the Harvard H6 is not plain sailing in 2021 and has been overtaken by other models for many months. In February 2021, Changan CS75 leader Harvard H6; Honda CR-V also won the SUV sales championship in April 2021; in September 2021, Harvard H6 lost to Tesla Model Y.

Although Harvard H6 once again became the top seller of SUV, sales fell 3.2% year-on-year, while Changan CS75, although only the runner-up, increased 4.8% to 275000 vehicles. In addition to the above two domestic models, BYD Song, Geely Boyue and Changan CS55 domestic SUV all appeared on the list, of which BYD Song increased by 12.7% year-on-year, Changan CS55 increased by 26.7%, and Geely Boyue fell 9.0%. It is worth mentioning that BYD Song is also the sum of sales of fuel vehicles, plug-in hybrids and pure electric vehicles, with a total sales of 202000 vehicles for the whole year, including 97000 for Song, 74000 for Song PLUS DM-i and 23000 for Song PLUS EV. In terms of other popular models, the Haver sold 99000 dogs last year, 85000 tanks and 83000 Changan UNI-T.

In terms of joint venture models, the stronger performance is still concentrated in Japanese brands. Among the best-selling SUV models, six are from Japanese brands, of which Honda has four shortlisted models. With the exception of Honda CR-V, which ranks third, Honda XR-V, which ranks sixth, has annual sales of 191000 vehicles, compared with 168000 vehicles for Color Chi and 162000 vehicles for Haoying, which ranked ninth and 10th, respectively. In addition, Toyota's RAV4 rose 17.3 per cent year-on-year to 203000 vehicles, while Nissan Xiaoke rose 2.2 per cent to 161000 vehicles. According to statistics, there are 25 SUV models with sales of more than 100000 vehicles in 2021, of which Nissan Qijun has the biggest decline, with a cumulative sales of 102000 vehicles, compared with 170000 in 2020, 213000 in 2019 and 205000 in 2018, the lowest in recent years.

In terms of luxury brands, only the BMW X3 and Audi Q5L were shortlisted, with the BMW X3 up 11.6 per cent year-on-year to 150000 and Audi Q5L down 6.2 per cent to 140000. In addition, competitor Mercedes-Benz GLCs sold 136000 vehicles for the year, down 17.7% from a year earlier.

In addition to the above models, Tesla's second domestic model, Model Y, was also one of the dark horses of the year, and was the only electric car on the SUV list, with a total sales of 170000 vehicles in 2021 and more than 40, 000 in December, setting a new monthly sales record again.

Compared with the small share of the MPV market, from the monthly sales list is also a lot of interesting points. According to the annual list, there are more than 100, 000 Wuling Hongguang and Buick GL8 models, 252000 and 161000 respectively, but Wuling Hongguang fell by 11.0%.

Among the high-profile models in the market, Beijing Hyundai Cousteau sold a total of 5485 vehicles in the five months on the market, while Kia Jiahua did not perform satisfactorily, selling only 2260 vehicles in the five months on the market. The most closely watched Guangzhou Automobile Toyota Sina sold 932 vehicles in December 2021. I don't know how it will perform in the future. Honda's Odyssey sales fell to 1493 in December, the lowest level in recent months, possibly related to the mid-term launch.

According to the automobile market share announced by the China Automobile Association, the market share of Chinese brand passenger cars will increase from 38.42% in 2020 to 44.43% in 2021, while both German and Japanese systems have declined in varying degrees, with a market share of 20.6%. While the American market share increased to 10.2%, on the one hand, the growth of Ford / Lincoln sales, on the other hand, the growth of Tesla sales. Both Jeep and GM were less optimistic during the year.

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