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The latest sales list of medium-sized cars has been released! According to the December TOP 15 sales list of Automotive Industry concern, 12 models sold more than 10,000 vehicles in December 2022, of which Honda Accord won the top spot with 26714 medium sedans, while Toyota Camry and SAIC Volkswagen Passat ranked second and third with 26510 and 20158 respectively.

Accord, Camry and Teana are known as the "Japanese top three", and the three models have long accounted for a large share of the medium-sized car market, but judging from the December list, the three patterns have changed. Accord and Camry are about the same in sales in December, ranking first and second on the TOP 15 list, respectively. The competition is fierce, and the competition between the two will be even fiercer when a new generation of Accord and Camry are scheduled to be launched this year.

However, Teana, which is also a "Japanese swordsman", has fallen out of the top 10, with sales of only 7931 vehicles in December, ranking 14th on the list. The reason why Teana fell out of the top 10 may be related to the launch of the medium-term modified model of the model. Teana, which is currently on sale, is a model that has just completed a mid-term change not long ago. On September 30, 2022, the medium-term change of Dongfeng Nissan, Teana, was officially launched, with a total of five new models with a price range of 17.98-239800 yuan. As a replacement model, the appearance of the new car adopts a new design style, which is more fashionable as a whole, while the power still carries 2.0T and 2.0L engines, which are matched by CVT gearboxes. Among them, 2.0L maximum power 156 horsepower, peak torque 197N m, 2.0T maximum power 243 horsepower, peak torque 371N m.

According to new car traffic insurance data, sales of Teana were 12200 in October, 8641 in November and 12100 in December. the cumulative sales of Teana fell 9.24% year-on-year to 147300 in 2022, continuing to lag behind the Camry and Accord. By contrast, Camry sales rose 18.74 per cent year-on-year to 223200 vehicles; Accord sales rose 12.37 per cent to 223000 vehicles. It should be noted that the current Camry and Accord models are on the market in the mid-term in 2021, it is clear that Teana modified products are a step behind in the iteration.

In addition, SAIC-Volkswagen Passat and FAW-Volkswagen Maiteng ranked third and fourth respectively in December sales, with Passat ahead of Maiteng with 20158 vehicles. The main reason is that SAIC Volkswagen revised and updated Passat in September 2022, and the product has been improved.

The brightest seller on the list is BYD Seal. Seals, a new model in BYD's ocean series, went on sale on July 29th, positioning a medium-sized pure electric sedan with a subsidised price range of 21.28-289800 yuan. According to the data, seal sales were 1726 in August, 9473 in September, 11267 in October, 15356 in November and 15378 in December, a trend that will make seals another popular model owned by BYD.

Tesla Model 3 also entered the top 10, ranking eighth with 12539 vehicles. Although Tesla has been promoting price cuts since the fourth quarter of 2022, the Model 3 and Model Y models have been mediocre after a short period of success. New car traffic insurance data show that 316500 Model Y vehicles were delivered in 2022, down 43.79 per cent to 29300 in December from a year earlier, while Model 3 delivered 125200 vehicles in the whole year, up 23.82 per cent to 12444 in December.

In the BBA luxury brand camp, BMW has always outperformed Mercedes-Benz and Audi. In the segment of medium-sized cars, BMW 3-Series, Mercedes-Benz C-Class and Audi A4L all sold more than 10,000 vehicles in December, of which BMW 3-Series sales were 12393, lagging behind Mercedes-Benz C-Class 16239 but ahead of Audi A4L's 10804.

According to previous statistics from Automotive Industry concern, cumulative sales of the BMW 3-Series fell 3.9 per cent year-on-year to 163700 vehicles in 2022; Mercedes-Benz C-Class rose 10.7 per cent to 144400 vehicles; and Audi A4L rose 17.8 per cent to 143400 vehicles. Although the BMW 3-Series was revamped in 2022, the overall change is small, the product power has not been improved, but the price is much higher than the old model, which may be one of the reasons for the decline in sales. The difference in annual sales between Mercedes-Benz C-Class and Audi A4L is only 1000, and the competition is fierce.

According to the latest data from the Federation of passengers, retail sales in the domestic narrow passenger car market were 2.169 million in December 2022, an increase of 3.0% over the same period last year and 31.4% from the previous month. The reason for the growth is the release of the "new ten" epidemic control, the 50% reduction in purchase tax and the countdown to the withdrawal of new energy vehicles. Overall, in the segment of medium-sized cars, sales also rebounded in December, with a total of 12 models of more than 10,000 models, of which more than 20,000 models accounted for three.

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