Source of this article: Times Finance Author: Liao Wei
Recently, according to media reports, Toyota Japan's official website announced that after the 19th of this month, the new Land Cruiser users will wait for about 4 years before delivery. However, Toyota also stressed that "the above forecast may change according to future production conditions as of January 19, 2022."
"Probably because the supply chain is under pressure, under the epidemic, it is difficult to maintain a normal supply of chips and some parts, and from time to time there will be shortages, and it is difficult for manufacturers themselves to ensure production." However, the specific reasons are not very clear, after all, we are only channel agents. For the record pick-up cycle of Cruze, Li Chen (pseudonym), a domestic land Cruze first-class agent, told Times Finance on January 22.
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It is understood that under the impact of Omicron, the originally fragile automobile supply chain has been hit hard. Toyota Motor motor corporation announced that it will suspend production of 11 production lines at eight domestic plants, including the Motomachi plant in Aichi Prefecture, in February this year due to the shortage of parts and chips. Toyota expects domestic and overseas new vehicle production to be about 150,000 units less than its production plan in February, and global production will be around 700,000 units.
Among them, the new generation of Land Cruiser was officially released in June 2021, and the interior appearance has changed significantly from the older models. According to public information, the new Cruze uses a large floating screen with a size of 12 inches, and the overall scientific and technological atmosphere is stronger. In terms of powertrain, the new car is equipped with a new 3.5-liter V6 twin-turbo engine, matched with a 10-speed automatic transmission, and accelerates from zero to 100 kilometers in just 6.7 seconds.
At present, the new Cruze is not listed globally, and is only sold in a few regions such as Japan and the Middle East, and may be introduced into China in the future in the form of parallel imports. Recently, some netizens broke the news that a number of new Cool Road Ze cars have appeared in Tianjin Port.
"The new generation of Land Cruiser has already arrived in Hong Kong (Tianjin Port), with almost 2,000 new cars." On January 22, a trader in Tianjin who did import car business told Times Finance that "there are too many people consulting, we have now received orders for hundreds of cars, and we can deliver cars around May Day this year."
"Although the car has arrived in Hong Kong now, it is still undergoing China VI emission testing, and we are not sure when it will pass." However, if the situation is optimistic, the car can be delivered in March, and it may not be until the middle of the year at the latest. Li Chen revealed, "There are not so many cars than two thousand, and now the automobile supply chain is under pressure, and it is difficult for the manufacturers themselves to ensure normal production.
According to the quotation of Li Chen and others, the low-end price of the new generation land cruise is about 1.05 million yuan, and the high-end model can reach about 1.6 million yuan. "This car is very hot, and now it is only a pre-price, and when it is really listed, we estimate that the price will still rise." However, as long as the deposit (50,000 or 100,000 yuan) is locked up now, it will not be affected by the subsequent price fluctuation."
According to industry analysts, Toyota's official announcement of up to 4 years of waiting time may further boost its domestic price, and the price of new domestic cars in the future may exceed 2 million yuan. According to information recently released by Toyota, the price range of the new Land Cruiser in the Japanese market is 5.1 million to 8 million yen, which is about 284,000 to 445,000 yuan. In other words, its maximum selling price is more than one million yuan lower than the domestic market quotation.
"This also includes shipping, tariffs and other costs." For the price difference between the new Coolozer in the two markets, Li Chen said, "We are only a domestic channel agent, we do not care about other upstream things, we do not understand, comprehensive conditions, the domestic pre-sale price is almost this range."
Land Cruiser's long car lifting cycle, as well as domestic quotations of more than one million yuan, have also aroused heated discussion in the industry. Some industry insiders have analyzed that this may be good for domestic off-road brands such as Great Wall Tank, after all, the comprehensive strength of tank products is not bad, and the current market heat is constantly rising.
Tanks 500 | Photo by Times Finance
It is reported that in order to fill the market gap left by Prado and Cruze, Great Wall Motors previously unveiled the Tank 500 during the Guangzhou Auto Show, priced at 335,000-395,000 yuan, and the car won the attention of many consumers with the 3.0T V6+9AT gearbox power combination, hardcore appearance and off-road performance of the whole series.
The data shows that during the Guangzhou Auto Show, only 20 minutes after the opening of the pre-sale channel, the order volume of the car reached 13,000, and exceeded 20,000 after an hour, of which the national limited 500 tank 500 Black Samurai edition was sold out in 20 minutes. Judging from the pre-sale performance, the tank 500 is a phenomenon.
However, at present, the tank 500 has not been officially listed, for the future delivery time, on January 24, Times Finance learned from the tank experience center, "Tank 500 is a new factory, if all goes well, basically three or four months, two or three months can be."
In addition, the current tank 300's pick-up cycle has also been shortened. On January 23, a person from a great wall tank experience store told Times Finance, "The current pick-up cycle takes almost three or four months. According to times finance and economics previously understood, the Tan 300 car cycle up to half a year, for the change, the aforementioned experience store person explained, "due to the implementation of the real-name system, all orders are real, there will be no previous scalpers occupying a large number of places."
"At present, there are models with a long pick-up cycle, not because the factory production capacity cannot keep up, mainly because the chips and other parts are often not supplied, which also directly affects the production capacity and delivery cycle." A mainstream independent brand insider previously told Times Finance.