2021 is not very friendly to car companies, the epidemic is repeated, the supply chain that is recovering has been hit again, affected by this, most car companies have declined in sales, but there are exceptions, Chery sales 961926, an increase of 31.7% year-on-year, the highest increase in the history of the brand.
Among them, Chery brand Tiggo series and Arrizo series have a good performance, the annual sales of 656846 vehicles, an increase of 46.3%, the main high-end Xingtu annual sales of 37155 vehicles, up 121% year-on-year, the main cost-effective Jietu sales of 154077 vehicles, also increased by 17.9%, the momentum is good.
However, 2021 has come to an end, and 2022 is the focus, and Chery has set a target of ensuring 1.5 million vehicles and striving for 2 million vehicles. In order to impact this goal, Chery Group's three major brands will launch a number of new models during the year.
At the Guangzhou Auto Show last year, Chery unveiled OMODA 5 at the booth, and the name of the new car has not yet been announced, and it is likely to be "Yuan Qi". OMODA 5 positioning coupe SUV, the biggest highlight is the use of new design elements, such as borderless grille, slender headlights, etc., and in terms of power, there may be 1.5T, 1.6T two choices.
Tiggo 8 family is the main sales model of the Chery brand, currently on sale are Tiggo 8 and Tiggo 8 PLUS two major car series, and this year, the family will add Tiggo 8Pro model, the new car will use a new front face design, huge grille, slender headlights, new fog lamp design, very recognizable, as for the power, it is estimated to be consistent with the first two models of the family.
Most of Chery's SUV models offer 1.6T power options, but the sedan side has been absent, and this year, the 1.6T Chery sedan is finally coming. It is understood that the new car positioning A+ class models, larger than the Arrizo 7, will form a direct competitive relationship with Geely Xingrui and Changan Ruicheng CC.
At the Guangzhou Auto Show last year, the Jietu booth also unveiled a new model X-1, which has been determined to be named Dasheng, and the new car design is more radical and avant-garde than the models on sale in Jietu, and the highlight is that it is built with a new Kunlun architecture, and will be equipped with Huawei's L3 level automatic driving assistance system, etc., and will also be equipped with Chery Kunpeng Power.
Compared with Dasheng, Jietu T-X is bigger, and once unveiled, it has aroused the attention of many netizens, and the new car is positioned as a hardcore SUV, and the appearance is composed of a large number of flat straight lines, which is a bit of a "Land Rover Defender" taste. More importantly, the new car will not have its own table, it is said that the use of non-loaded body, and equipped with a differential lock four-wheel drive system, will launch 1.6T, 2.0T two versions, is the real hard SUV.
In terms of Xingtu, the concept car Yaoguang, which was unveiled at the Shanghai Auto Show last year, will roll off the production line at the end of this year. The new car looks like a coupe SUV, close in size to the Range Rover Evoque L, and will have two options in terms of power, 2.0T+8AT/9AT, of which 8AT may come from Chery's own research and 9AT may come from ZF.
In addition to the above-mentioned new models, it is not excluded that Chery will make changes to the models on sale, when the product camp will be further improved, the competitiveness will be further improved, according to chery's current momentum, coupled with the gradual alleviation of chip shortages this year, it is not a big problem to achieve sales targets.