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According to media reports, Buick's new flagship MPV Century CENTURY will be officially launched on November 3. As the flagship MPV of Buick brand, the new car is based on the new large-scale luxury MPV architecture, focusing on the higher-end luxury MPV market segment.

In terms of appearance, the new car adopts a new brand logo and design concept, and offers two models: the ordinary version and the Avia version. Specifically, the new car and last year's Buick GL8 flagship concept car remains highly similar, using Buick's new PURE Design pure design concept, the front face part of the use of a large area of the grille almost occupy the entire front face, with "7" shape on both sides of the headlight group, a great sense of recognition and luxury. The new car has smooth lines on the side of the body, using a suspended roof shape and equipped with electric sliding doors to further enhance the luxury of the vehicle. In terms of body size, the length, width and height of the new car are 5230/1980/1867mm and the wheelbase is 3130mm. In the rear part, the overall design of the new car is relatively simple, using through-type taillight group.

In the interior part, the new car is equipped with a popular suspended integrated curved screen, the central armrest area of the second row of seats uses an 8-inch intelligent control screen, and the hardware matches a 8155 Qualcomm chip. In terms of seat layout, the new car will launch four-seater and six-seater models in the early stage, followed by cheaper seven-seater models, in which the second and third rows of the new car share long longitudinal electric slides, and the second row is also equipped with electric horizontal slide design.

In terms of power, the new car will be equipped with 2.0T+48V light mixing system, maximum power 169kW, maximum speed 195km/h. The transmission system is expected to match the 9-speed automatic transmission.

Overall, the new car as a new high-end medium and large MPV, whether the exterior design or interior layout has a good performance, as for the price is not expected to be cheap.

The new Buick GL8 family under the SAIC GM Buick brand officially launched on August 19, with a total of 20 models in three series of GL8 Avia, GL8 ES Lu Zun and GL8 onshore business class, with a price range of 232900 yuan to 533900 yuan. After its launch, Buick Century CENTURY will work with GL8 Avenir Avia, GL8 Luzun ES and GL8 Land Business Class to create a more perfect MPV product line. At the same time, the new car will further expand Buick's market layout in MPV segments.

According to the data of the Federation of passengers, the overall sales of the domestic MPV market in 2021 fell by 1.0% to 1.079 million vehicles compared with the same period last year. However, Buick GL8 is still the dominant MPV market for a long time. Buick GL8 sales of 161300 vehicles in 2021, ranking first in MPV sales, followed by Chuanqi M8 and Wuling Capgemini, with sales of 66000 and 63000 respectively.

After entering 2022, the domestic MPV market as a whole shows a new trend, and the sales volume of Buick GL8 has also changed slightly. After the launch of a number of models, such as Lantu Dreamer, Teng Teng D9, FAW Toyota GRANVIA and Hongqi brand-new MPV, the share of Buick GL8 in the domestic MPV market has been gradually subdivided. According to data from the Federation of passengers, the overall sales of the domestic MPV market from January to September in 2022 was 688000, down 15.1% from the same period last year, of which MPV sales in September were 89000, up 6.4% from the same period last year and 3.8% from the previous month. From January to September, Buick GL8 cumulative sales fell 20.9% year-on-year to 97399 vehicles, accounting for only 14.2% of the domestic MPV market share, while ranking second behind Wuling Hongguang (126309 vehicles). The main thing is that Buick GL8 has also been overtaken by different models in terms of this year's month, such as only 10138 vehicles in July and 13799 vehicles in Wuling Hongguang.

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