August 2017 Domestic Car Market Sales Analysis: B-Class Cars Drop List

In August 2017, the sales volume of the sedan market increased slightly year-on-year, but the cumulative sales in the first eight months of this year decreased. According to data compiled by Gasgoo Automotive Research Institute, in August, the domestic car market rose by 2.4 percentage points year-on-year, and 939,102 new cars were sold. Sales volume in the passenger car market dropped by 1.5 percentage points year-on-year to 50.7%.

The US Department surpasses its own brands to enter the top three

According to the distribution department, the top three brands have changed, with the US Department of brand cars ranking the top three with a slight advantage over self-owned brand cars, and German, Japanese, American, and independent brands all showing year-on-year increases. Among them, the US Department of Branded Cars increased steadily. In August, sales increased 4.8% year-on-year and achieved sales of 171,310 units. The sales of German-branded cars continued to be leading. In August sales reached 320,668 units, up 6.8% year-on-year, contributing 34.1% to the car market. Sales. The brand cars of the Korean and French brands continued to decline, and their declines narrowed. Among them, the sales of the legal brand in August reached 15,531, down 47.6% year-on-year. The Korean brand achieved 57,606 sales in August, a year-on-year decrease of 27.6. %.

The sales volume of Japanese brand cars increased by 9.2% year-on-year, narrowing the increase. In August sales reached 202,290 units, ranking second. The self-owned brand car retreated to fourth place with sales of 165,485 units, an increase of 5.9% over the same period of last year.

A-class car decline narrowed market share

From the perspective of market segments, the market share of A-Class sedan accounted for 64.2%, and the sales volume in August decreased narrowly to 1.9% year-on-year. A total of 602,967 new cars were sold, and the situation improved. The A0 class sedan increased by 11.1% year-on-year, achieving sales of 101,503 units; the market share of B-class and C-class sedan continued to increase, but the increase narrowed significantly. August sales were 166,865 units and 44,524 units respectively, of which class B cars were the same It increased by 5.3 percentage points, a slight increase from the previous quarter, and the C-class vehicles increased by 14.2% year-on-year, a slight decrease from the previous quarter.

Dongfeng Nissan Changan Ford attacked the top five

In August of this year, the top ten car sales companies were FAW-Volkswagen, SAIC-GM, SAIC-Volkswagen, Dongfeng Nissan, Changan Ford, Geely Automobile, Beijing Hyundai, FAW Toyota, Guangzhou Automobile Honda and GAC Toyota. Dongfeng Nissan reversed its return to fourth place, and Geely Automobile withdrew from the top five. In the top three, as long as sales of SAIC Volkswagen cars decreased by 4.7% year-on-year, the decline has narrowed. The FAW Volkswagen sedan has opened up a gap with other car companies, selling 162,112 new cars, up 13.8% from the same period last year. Sales of SAIC-GM cars increased slightly year-on-year. In August, sales volume reached 117,135 units, up 3.4% from the same period last year. In the list of top ten cars sold by the company, Chang'an Ford doubled sales from the previous month, an increase of 8.0% year-on-year, and sold 54,175 new cars, jumping to the top five.

The top five sedan list was occupied by joint venture brands, and the year-on-year increase in sales of Geely auto sedan of its own brand further expanded to 65.8%. In August, it achieved sales of 48037 vehicles. In addition, the number of Beijing Hyundai cars in the top ten companies has fallen by a large margin. In August, the sales volume reached 38,634 vehicles, which fell by 22.9% year-on-year, and the decline narrowed.

Compact sedan tops the top ten list

From the perspective of vehicle models, the top ten sales in the car market in August were fully occupied by compact cars, followed by brand new Hideo, Sylphy, Jetta, LaVida, Sagitar, Forex, Corolla, Polaris, New Santana and Emgrand EC7. The brand new Yinglang took a small lead, with sales of 36,418 units in August, an increase of 10.9% year-on-year, becoming the monthly champion of the domestic car market.

Sylphy sales kept pace with the new Yinglang, becoming the second runner-up in the domestic car market with 35,565 units, up 26.9% year-on-year. The Volkswagen compact sedans took third, fourth and fifth positions, and the sales volume was in inverse proportion to the guidance price.

In the top ten cars, the Volkswagen brand still occupies half, and the Japanese brand Corolla fell from the previous month's runner-up to the seventh of this month. In August, a total of 25,693 new cars were sold, a year-on-year increase narrowed to 10.2%.

In August, there was only one self-owned sedan Emgrand EC7 (16,752) in the top ten list, but there was still a certain gap with the joint venture brand, which was 23.9% higher than the same period of last year. The B-Class car slipped to 15 people.