On January 11, the Association announced the overall performance of the passenger car market in December 2021 and 2021, and today the Association released more detailed data. In December, retail sales in the passenger car market were 2.141 million units, down 7.7% year-on-year. Sales of sedans were 1.049 million units, SUV models were 959,000 units, MPVs were 97,000 units, and Microbus sales were 36,000 units.
Specifically, the top 15 models in the passenger car market (sedan, SUV, MPV) sales in December:
Specifically, the top fifteen models of the sedan are mainly joint venture brands, and Xuanyi, Langyi, Corolla, Camry, Accord and other models are shortlisted in the list. In terms of Chinese brands, BYD Qin, Geely Emgrand and Hongguang MINIEV were also strongly shortlisted.
In terms of SUV models, Haval H6 sales in December were 41,400 units, down 23.9% year-on-year, but still ranked first on the list. Tesla Model Y ranked second with 40,500 vehicles, in the SUV list can see the competition between Chinese brands and joint venture brands, the market with the highest attention from domestic consumers is still the compact SUV market.
Although the MPV list champion has always been Wuling Hongguang, the decline in market share and sales is reality, and sales volume is the best evidence. In December, Buick GL8, Alexand, Odyssey and Weiran all performed well.
Passenger car sales in 2021
In 2021, retail sales in the passenger car market were 20.486 million units, up 4.5% year-on-year. Specifically, the cumulative sales volume of sedans was 9.846 million units, an increase of 6.4% year-on-year, the sales volume of SUV market was 9.221 million units, an increase of 3% year-on-year; the sales volume of the MPV market was 1.079 million units, down 1% year-on-year; and the sales of Microbus were 340,000 units, an increase of 6.9% year-on-year.
Specifically, the top fifteen models in the passenger car market (sedan, SUV, MPV) sales in 2021:
In terms of cars, the 2021 car defended the championship position with a score of 513,200 cars, successfully defending the title. Langyi sold 432,000 units, down 3.8% year-on-year, and this year Langyi will usher in a mid-term restructuring, and it is foreseeable that the overall competitiveness of new cars will be further improved.
In the 11th-15th place in the car sales list, it is not easy for accord, BMW 5 series, bmw 3 series to be shortlisted, and it is also the embodiment of consumption upgrading.
In the SUV market, Haval H6 sold 364,000 units in the full year, down 3.2% year-on-year. The Dongfeng Honda CR-V is the best joint venture SUV on sale, followed by FAW Toyota RAV4 Rongfang. In terms of luxury brands, BMW X3, Audi Q5 and other models have strongly entered the top fifteen of the list.
In 2021, although the first model of MPV sales is Wuling Hongguang, but the decline of 11% year-on-year is a hidden worry, we may wish to boldly guess, Buick GL8 in 202X can surpass Wuling Hongguang? This topic may have been a bit out of reach five years ago, but in 2022 it may not be impossible to achieve. In 2021, the joint venture MPV market will welcome new models such as GAC Toyota Syna, Kia Kahua, and Beijing Hyundai Kustu, and the competition in the future home high-end MPV market will be more intense.
Performance of the new energy market
In December, sales in the new energy market were 475,000 units, up 128.8% year-on-year. In 2021, retail sales in the new energy market were 2.989 million units, an increase of 169.1% compared to the same period last year (1.111 million units). BYD also won the first place in the retail ranking of new energy manufacturers in December 2021, and the second place was Tesla China. In the whole year of 2021, the first place in the retail sales ranking of new energy manufacturers is STILL BYD, SAIC-GM-Wuling ranks second in the hot sales list with Hongguang MINIEV, and Tesla China ranks third.
It is worth noting that new energy vehicles contributed 9 percentage points to the year-on-year growth rate of passenger cars. The trend of new energy vehicles and traditional fuel vehicles forms a strong differentiation characteristic, realizes the partial substitution effect of new energy vehicles on the fuel vehicle market, proves the change in consumer demand through the user's market-oriented choice, and accelerates the pace of transformation to new energy in the automobile market.