In 2021, the domestic luxury car market continues to strengthen, and the demand for imported car markets will also pick up. According to the data released in the relevant market research report, the sales models of imported passenger cars are still mainly cars and SUVs. According to the data given by China's imported automobile market database, a brief inventory of the top ten sales of imported passenger car brands (January to October) is taken to see which brand is most popular in China.
The tenth most important imported passenger car brand sales list is Volkswagen, with cumulative sales of 14,810 units in the first 10 months of this year. German Volkswagen can be said to have witnessed the development of the modern automobile industry and shaped one automobile legend after another. Popular models include the Beetle, Weilan and Touareg. Due to the shortage of chips, volkswagen group's production and sales, revenue, operating margin and other indicators in the third quarter of 2021 have declined; Volvo ranked ninth on the list, with sales of 19,764 vehicles. The brand was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in the 1920s, and popular models include the Volvo V60 and Volvo XC90.
Toyota ranked eighth in the sales list of imported passenger car brands, with cumulative sales of 21,118 units. In the early days of the company, the company mainly manufactured textile machinery, and the founder, Kiichiro Toyoda, set up an automobile department in the 1930s, thus beginning the history of Toyota Motor Company's automobile manufacturing. The most popular models of imported Toyota are Wilfa, Alpha, and Toyota SUPRA; the seventh place is MINI, with cumulative sales of 26,468 units. The brand was created in the UK, and each generation of MINI is breaking the established model in the field of small cars, with the most popular model being the MINI CLUBMAN.
At number six on the list is Land Rover, with imported passenger car sales reaching 34,936 units. The brand was first founded in the United Kingdom, and now belongs to the Indian Tata Automobile Group, and the hot models include Range Rover and Defender; the fifth place in the sales list of imported passenger car brands is Audi, with cumulative sales of 68,687 units this year. Audi is a famous luxury car brand in Germany, and since the company was originally formed by the merger of 4 companies, each ring is the symbol of one of the companies. Popular imported models include the Audi A5 Coupe and the Audi A4 Avant.
The fourth most imported passenger car brand in terms of sales was Porsche, with sales of 73,821 units. It is a well-known luxury car brand in Germany, and the brand name "Porsche" is actually the surname of the founder Ferdinand Porsche. Popular models include the Panamera, 911, 718; in third place on the list is BMW, with imported car sales reaching 141897. BMW's full Chinese name is Bavaria Engine Manufacturing Plant AG, which is headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The hot imported models are BMW 4 Series Double Door, BMW 3 Series GT, and BMW 7 Series.
Mercedes-Benz ranks second on the list, with imported passenger car sales of 150156 units, and is a world-famous German luxury car brand. In addition to high-end luxury cars, Mercedes-Benz is also the world's most famous manufacturer of buses and heavy-duty trucks. The hot imported models are Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe, Mercedes-Benz CLS, Mercedes-Benz G-Class; the first place in the sales list of imported passenger car brands is Lexus, with cumulative sales of 189471 units in ten months this year. It is a luxury car brand of the Toyota Group, which was born in the 1980s and first launched in the North American market, because Lexus's pronunciation of the English word "Luxury" is similar, which is easily reminiscent of luxury cars. In the past two years, toyota has been studying Lexus' domestic plans in China. Popular models include Lexus CT, Lexus UX, Lexus LM and so on.