Volkswagen should be the most popular car brand in China, Volkswagen is the earliest joint venture car to enter the country, and the first model is Santana, Santana was assembled by hand when it first entered the country, the price at that time was as high as 180,000 yuan, but it was still popular, and the people who could afford Santana at that time were also rich.
And now Santana has become a civilian model, the price is only 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, I don't know if Santana is about to stop production, now is the era of new energy development, car companies are also implementing a double points policy, every time a Santana is sold, it is necessary to use 0.42 points to deduct negative points for fuel vehicles, so that Santana needs to consume 60,000 double points every year, and Volkswagen will have to pay a fine of 2,000 yuan for each Santana produced, so Volkswagen Santana is not far from stopping production.
In addition to santana, another Volkswagen model has also been affected, it is the Passat, after Santana, Passat will also be "discontinued", the German Volkswagen official website to remove the Passat! I believe that many friends are no strangers to the Passat, which is the evergreen tree of Volkswagen and the best-selling one in the B-class car.
In the earliest days, the Passat was generally a small boss's car, and many government units also used the Passat, so the Passat became the dream of many consumers, because the Passat represented a sense of seniority and pride, even if the Passat had a broken A-pillar incident, it did not affect its sales in the slightest, which shows the status of the Passat in the hearts of domestic consumers.
Why are Passat's sales so high? In fact, this is related to the brand influence, in the Volkswagen model, the Passat should be the most popular car, early occupied the domestic market, and the Passat design is very atmospheric, and has ample space advantages.
In addition, the new Passat has changed the previous business atmosphere, the new car has become more young, sporty, very in line with the aesthetic concept of modern young people, in addition, the Passat is equipped with 1.4T, 2.0T two kinds of turbocharged engines, while the 1.4T Passat is only priced at about 140,000, for consumers, with the price of A-class cars to buy a B-class car is not fragrant? So sales of passats are still high.
However, recently saw the news of the passat suspension of production on the Internet, according to Spanish media reports, Volkswagen closed the online customization channel of the B-class car Passat on the Official Website in Germany, and the Passat family only has one model left, considering that Europe has the habit of "car customization", foreign media predict that the Volkswagen Passat may completely stop production in the future.
Although Volkswagen has not officially confirmed the suspension of the Passat, this generation of Passat has passed nearly 7 years since the transformation in 2015, the product cycle is about to end, the replacement of Volkswagen is delayed, the possibility of discontinuation is very high, in addition, Volkswagen announced that it will release the "final version" of the Passat in the North American market, and will stop selling in North America in the near future, which indicates that the Passat may really stop production.
All in all, the Passat is loved by domestic consumers, sales are also very high, Passat should not stop selling in the country in a short period of time, after all, Passat is the evergreen tree of Volkswagen models in China, Volkswagen does not want to give up this cake, after all, in the field of B-class cars, Passat, Maiten is a competitor of Accord and Camry, if Volkswagen stops selling Passat in China, then Volkswagen will lose the initiative of the B-class car market, so the domestic short-term will not be affected.