China is a big car producer, but it is not a big car brand country. In addition, there are also some countries that are both big countries of automobile brands and big countries of automobile production.
Total worldwide vehicle production in 2021 was 79.78 million units, up 2% year-on-year. The largest number of automobiles produced, the first is China, with a production volume of 26.08 million units. The second was 9.15 million units in the United States, the third was 7.84 million units in Japan, the fourth was 4.39 million units in India, and the fifth was South Korea with 3.46 million units. Sixth place was Germany with 3.42 million vehicles. Seventh was Mexico with 3.12 million units, Brazil with 2.24 million units, Spain with 2.09 million units in the ninth place, and Thailand with 1.68 million units in tenth place.
Just now I said the world's top ten car producers, let's take a look at who the world's top ten car brands are in 2021.
The first place is Toyota Motor 10.5 million units, the second place is Volkswagen 8.9 million units, the third place is Renault-Nissan Union 7.68 million units, the fourth place is Hyundai Motor Group 6.67 million units, the fifth place is General Motors Group 6 million units, the sixth rank is The Strandis 5.38 million units, the seventh rank is Honda 4.48 million units, the eighth rank is Ford 3.72 million units, the ninth place is Suzuki 2.76 million units, and the tenth place is BMW 2.52 million vehicles.
So if we compare the above 10 countries and 10 brands, we can find that the 10 countries I mentioned above can be divided into two categories, one is a big car producer but not a big car brand, and the other type of country is both a big car brand country and a big car producer.
Who is a big car producer, not a big car brand? The number one is definitely China, because China produces the most cars in the world, but there is no one in the world's top 10 car brands. The second place is India, which has the fourth largest annual automobile production in the world, but none of the 10 brands just mentioned is Indian. In addition, there are Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Thailand. These 6 countries are all big car producers, but they are not big car brands.
It can be found that these countries are all developing countries except Spain. These countries either have relatively low labor costs, or because the market size is relatively large, it can be digested internally, such as China and India, Brazil. Either the geographical location is superior, and the cars produced can be exported, such as Mexican cars exported to the United States and Canada. Thai cars can be exported to the entire ASEAN country.
Let's look at it in turn, which ones are both big countries of automobile brands and big producers of automobiles? In fact, the top ten Japanese car brands in the world account for 4, which are Toyota, Honda, and Suzuki. There is also Nissan in the Renault-Nissan Union. In second place is the United States, which includes three of the top 10 auto brands in the world. General Motors, Ford Motors. Strantis is composed of Peugeot Citroen and Fiat Chrysler, so Chrysler is an American brand. In third place is Germany, which contains two, one is Volkswagen and the second is BMW. In fourth place is France, and Renault in the Renault-Nissan Alliance is a French brand. The Peugeot Citroen in Strantis is a French brand. In fifth place is South Korea, and Hyundai Kia Motors is a Korean brand.
Although the number of cars produced in these countries is not at all the same as that of China. China is 26 million vehicles, and Thailand, which ranks tenth, has only 1.68 million vehicles, but if we take into account the local economic development level, population size, and market size. It can be found that although other countries produce a small number of products, they are also large automobile producers, such as South Korea. The territory is equivalent to a Chinese Province, with a population of only about 50 million, but the annual production of automobiles can reach 3.46 million. This is already a very powerful thing.
In fact, you can find that although China's automobile industry is now very powerful, the world's output is the first. Moreover, new energy vehicles are also the first in production and sales. both led the development of the automobile. Including 5G communications, including high-precision maps, including speech recognition, including new energy vehicle batteries, China is the world's leading. But until now, China has not had a top ten car brand in the world.
So sometimes we seem to look down on Suzuki Because it has withdrawn from the Chinese market, and sometimes we look down on Hyundai Kia, which sells badly in the Chinese market, but none of the Chinese car brands can sell more than Suzuki.
I can say that as long as China has not given birth to the world's top ten automobile brands, then China will always be an automobile processing plant in the eyes of people all over the world. We produce so many Teslas in China for export to Europe, but for European users, they always think they are buying American cars instead of Chinese cars.
Therefore, independent brands still need to refuel, and the development of Chinese auto brands still has a long way to go.