Recently, major car companies announced their January 2022 sales report cards. As expected, last year's competitive landscape continued to the present, and the outstanding performance was still those few, and the gap between the head and the second and third lines continued to widen.
Taking independent brands as an example, the three giants of Geely, Changan and Great Wall are still stable, and their respective sales in January were 146,400 vehicles, 158,000 vehicles and 111,800 vehicles respectively, which can be described as a good start.
It was followed by BYD, SAIC Passenger Cars and Chery Automobile, with sales of 95,200 units, 86,000 units and 67,500 units, respectively. What needs attention is BYD, which is likely to break through 100,000+ by means of the east wind of new energy.
The independent car companies that rank further behind are either less than 50,000 vehicles per month, or dare not announce January sales, all in all, they have been far behind by the head and the second line.
This reminds me of the prediction of Chinese auto brands by Zhu Huarong, president of Changan Automobile, three years ago. In three or five years, it is not news that enterprises will shut down and turn around, and there will be more enterprises that will shut down and transfer in the next three years, and eventually Chinese car companies will "only have five or six left".
At that time, this sentence caused a hot discussion on the Internet, some people said that this is alarmist, is the trafficking anxiety, in 2017, the volume of China's car market was as high as 28.88 million, it is impossible to let only five or six families share the cake.
But unexpectedly, Zhu's words were really slowly becoming a reality!
Let's look back on what independent brands have become the past in recent years, or have been lying in the ICU unconscious.
Zotye and its damai, Hanteng, Junma, Mahayana, Hanlong; Baiqi Phantom Speed, Bisu Automobile, Lifan, Changan Suzuki in Chongqing; as well as other local car companies Cheetah, Qoros, Brilliance, Borgward, Huatai, etc.; plus those who have seen the light and died of the new forces of PPT car-making, what future, Sailin, Byton, Bo County, Yangtze River...
A lot of times we keep asking the question, does China really need so many car companies?
Looking at the developed countries or regions of the world's automobile industry, it is far from being as controversial as our country.
In the United States, which used to have only the big three Ford, GM and Chrysler, now there is only one Tesla; although there are nine major automobile companies in Japan, Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Mazda, Honda, Suzuki, Isuzu, Daihatsu and Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru), but the good performance is only two fields and one production; there are few famous car manufacturers in the entire European continent, Volkswagen, Daimler, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, PSA, Fiat and Renault; South Korea is Hyundai Kia Group.
The development of the market economy, from the initial controversy of a hundred schools of thought to the merger and reorganization in the later period, this is the inevitable result of market choice, and smart consumers have made their own choices with real money and silver.
There is no way, due to backward production capacity, productivity can not catch up with the mainstream level, product quality and strength can not be in line with the first-class car companies, backward car companies have always faced the problem of "stopping production and losing money, not stopping production and losing money". What awaits them is naturally the fate of being eliminated by the market or being eaten by big fish.
【Conclusion】From the perspective of the above content, as I was worried at the beginning, seeing the sales data of car companies in January is a bit ominous, and there are really only five or six domestic products left in the future. In some cases, it also verified the prediction of a netizen, which is actually a signal released by January sales: there are only five or six domestic car companies left in the future, or they will come true in one word. What are your views and opinions on this? Welcome to leave a message at the end of the article.