【Smart Car Pie News】On January 28, the Association released the analysis of the annual trend of the MPV market in 2021, and the wholesale sales of MPV in December last year were 113,000 units, down 20.8% year-on-year and 4.7% month-on-month; the cumulative sales volume for the whole year was 1.055 million units, an increase of 0.1% year-on-year. The penetration rate of MPVs in the narrow passenger car market was 5%, down 0.3% from the same period last year.
Monthly wholesale sales of MPV in 2021
From a monthly point of view, after entering the fourth quarter, due to the continuous improvement of the supply of the industrial chain, the chip supply has improved, and the sales volume of the MPV market in October was 114,000 units, becoming the highest sales point of the whole year, and the trend was slowed down in November and December due to the impact of the epidemic; the average monthly sales of the whole year were 88,000 vehicles, compared with last year, only 136 vehicles / month. From the perspective of car companies, the cumulative sales of the top 10 MPV companies were 936,000 units, an increase of 3.6% year-on-year, of which SAIC Motor Group accounted for 55.8% of the market share, GAC Group accounted for 15%, and Dongfeng Group accounted for 9.4%.
In addition, the sales of the top 10 product brands in the domestic MPV were 803,000 units, an increase of 11.5% year-on-year, and the sales of the remaining 39 MPV products were only 252,000 units, down 24.4% year-on-year, showing a "top-heavy" situation. From a city perspective, high-end MPVs account for more than 50% of sales in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu.