As of the evening of February 16, FAW Group, SAIC Group, GAC Group, Changan Automobile, Great Wall Motor, Geely Automobile, BYD, and Nissan, Volvo, Mazda and other automakers have released their respective January 2020 production and sales figures. From the data point of view, even if y affected by the Spring Festival, the epidemic, the overall production and sales data is not optimistic, but there are still flashpoints, such as FAW, SAIC, GAC and Chang'an Automobile and other brands of independent passenger car sales rebounded significantly, the increase was successfully positive. But at the same time, new energy vehicles in general downtrend still can not be ignored, BYD new energy, BAIC new energy and JAC new energy are continuing to decline. The specific situation is as follows:
One, SAIC: joint venture is still declining, independent brands gradually warming
A few days ago, SAIC released a January production and sales report. The data show that in January, the enterprise in January **** production of 419,000 cars, down 32.7% year-on-year; sold 400,000 cars, down 34.6% year-on-year. The decline in production and sales is not unfathomable as the actual working days in January were five days less than the same period in January 2019 due to the advancement of the 2020 Chinese New Year. However, according to data released by the Passenger Vehicle Association, production and sales in China's passenger car market slumped 29 percent and 21.5 percent year-on-year in January, with SAIC's sales performance lower than that of the market as a whole.
Image source: SAIC's production and sales announcement
Specifically, the joint venture SAIC-Volkswagen and SAIC-GM fell 40.5 percent and 30.5 percent, respectively, in January, but in terms of their next plan, 2020 will be the year of their respective products, and despite the unfavorable start, it is believed that under the next product offensive, or to gradually reverse the situation.
Shanghai Automobile General Motors (SAIC) Wuling reported sales of 78,000 units in January, down 51.1 percent year-on-year, making it the company with the biggest sales decline within SAIC. Despite the poor sales performance, SAIC-GM-Wuling has continued to dominate the screen by aiding the production of masks, and it is understood that the enterprise has recently obtained a medical device license and passed professional inspection, and the first batch of masks it aided in the production has already come off the line.
Compared to the joint venture, SAIC passenger car performance is excellent, January **** sold 60,000 new cars, the same period last year, in the Spring Festival in advance, the working day to reduce the background to achieve such results is not easy.
Second, GAC Group: GAC passenger cars increased 5.3% year-on-year
A few days ago, GAC Group released a January production and sales report. The data show that in January, GAC Group by the Chinese New Year, the impact of the epidemic, production and sales reached a decline of 24.3%, 15.9%, to 138,000 units, 176,000 units, the overall performance is slightly better than the overall market performance.
Image source: GAC Group's production and sales announcement
However, the group's joint-venture brands, including GAC Honda, GAC Toyota, and GAC Ficke, have all performed relatively weakly. In terms of specific data, GAC Fike sold only 0.2 million units in January, down 77.6 percent year-on-year; GAC Mitsubishi sold 0.8 million units, down 31.6 percent year-on-year; GAC Honda sold 62,000 units, down 16.1 percent year-on-year; and GAC Toyota sold 68,000 units, down 15.2 percent year-on-year. GAC Passenger Vehicles, on the other hand, was the only company under the group to maintain positive growth, with sales of 36,000 units in January, realizing a year-on-year increase of 5.3 percent.
Three, Chang'an Automobile: Chang'an Ford rebounded significantly, January sales rose 4.2% year-on-year
The evening of February 14, Chang'an Automobile official release January production and sales data. The data showed that in January 2020, Changan Automobile's production was 124,000 units, down 13.7% year-on-year; sales were 135,000 units, down 4.6% year-on-year, with the overall performance slightly better than the overall market performance.
Image source: Changan Automobile's production and sales announcement
Despite the challenges, the Changan lineup of Chinese-branded vehicles still delivered 104,000 units. Among them, 80,000 passenger cars were sold, up 1.8 percent against the trend. And Changan's second passenger brand, Auchan, also achieved excellent results in January, selling 19,000 units in a single month, up 48.4 percent year-on-year.
As for joint venture brands, this time Changan Ford's performance was remarkable. Thanks to the 2019 series of positive adjustments, Changan Ford began to show signs of rebound from last December, and realized sales of 15,000 new vehicles in January, up 4.2 percent from the same period last year. However, the performance of Mazda, another joint venture brand, remained less than stellar, with January sales of 0.9 million units, down 27.8 percent year-on-year.
Four, Great Wall Motor: January sales of 80,300 units, down 28.16 percent year-on-year
February 12, Great Wall Motor released a January production and sales snapshot. Overall, the whole line of brands have experienced a substantial decline, and only the export market has seen growth. Specific data show that Great Wall Motor's production and sales in January reached 77,000 units and 80,000 units respectively, down 31.8% and 28.2% year-on-year. In addition, Great Wall Motor exported 0.4 million vehicles in January, up 18.4 percent year-on-year.
Image source: Great Wall Motor's production and sales announcement
Specifically, the Haval brand sold 59,000 units in January, down 31.8 percent year-on-year. As Great Wall Motor's premium brand, the WEY brand sold 0.6 million units in January, a 37.1 percent decline from 10,000 units in the same month last year. And as Great Wall Motor's new-energy vehicle brand, sales of the Ola R1 and iQ models totaled 0.1 million units in January, down 65.7 percent from a year earlier.
Fifth, Geely: January sales fell 29 percent year-on-year, but market share increased again
On Feb. 13, Geely announced its January 2020 sales data. The data showed that Geely's January sales reached 112,000 units, down about 29 percent from the same period last year, and about 14 percent from December last year, and it has accomplished 8 percent of Geely's 2020 sales target of 1.41 million units.
Photo credit: Geely Automobile
Specifically, Geely Automobile SUVs, sedans, MPVs and other full categories of vehicles have a stable performance, of which?SUV products in January*** sales of 69,000 units, accounting for 62% of the total sales in the month, while the Boyue, Dihao, Dihao GS, Colorful 4 vehicles still maintain monthly sales of 10,000 units of the market performance; sedan, sedan products in January*** sales of 42,000 units, accounting for 62% of total sales in the month; sedan products in January*** sales of 42,000 units, accounting for 62% of total sales; sedan products in December last year. month *** sales of 42,000 units, accounting for 37% of total sales in the month; Geely new energy and electrification, on the other hand, *** sales of 0.5 million units; in addition, the foreign exports of 0.2 million units, down 67.7% compared to the same period last year.
Leader, its January cumulative sales of 0.9 million new vehicles, so far, Link products on the market two years cumulative sales of 257,000 units.
Six, BYD: new energy passenger car sales fell 74.9% year-on-year
The evening of February 10, BYD officially announced the latest sales results, the data show that BYD January sales *** counted 25,000 units, compared with 44,000 units a year earlier, down 42.7% year-on-year.
Image source: BYD production and sales announcement
Specifically, BYD performed better in the fuel vehicle segment in January, with sales of 18,000 units, up 18.3 percent year-on-year from 15,000 units last year; of which, sedan and SUV sales were 0.4 million and 12,000 units, up 3.6 percent and 108.1 percent year-on-year, respectively.
While sales of new energy vehicles declined significantly, directly affecting BYD's January total. The data showed that BYD's new energy vehicle sales in January amounted to 0.7 million units, down 75.1 percent year-on-year from last year's 29,000 units; among them, in the passenger car segment, sales of pure electric vehicles amounted to 0.5 million units, down 68.3 percent year-on-year, while sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles amounted to 0.2 million units, down 84.1 percent year-on-year.
Seven, BAIC New Energy: January sales fell 55.5% year-on-year
By the Spring Festival, the epidemic, the car market as a whole down, and new energy vehicles, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the overall sales of new energy vehicles passenger cars in January 39,000 units, down 54.5% year-on-year.
Image source: BAIC Blue Valley production and sales announcement
Which, according to the January 2020 production and sales announcement recently released by BAIC Blue Valley, BAIC New Energy's production in January was 0.2 million units, an increase of 1,028.2% year-on-year, but terminal sales of only 0.2 million units, compared with the same period last year, a decline of 55.5%, the market performance is slightly lower than the overall performance of new energy vehicles market.
However, the market performance is slightly lower than the overall market performance of new energy vehicles.
Eight, JAC: January sedan sales rose 26.8% against the trend
February 13 evening, JAC released January production and sales snapshot. The data show that its production in January was 38,000 units, down 31.1% year-on-year; sales of 37,000 units, down 30.2% year-on-year. Among them, sales of pure electric passenger cars amounted to just 0.2 million units, down 64.1 percent year-on-year.
Image source: JAC Production and Sales Announcement
On the passenger car front, the overall segment*** realized sales of 13,000 units, down 40.5 percent year-on-year. Among them, the sales of SUVs declined most significantly, with January sales of 0.4 million units, down 70.4% year-on-year; MPVs sold 0.4 million units in January, down 21.1% year-on-year; and sedans sold 0.5 million units in January, up 26.8% year-on-year.
Nine, FAW Group: January sales of 352,000 new cars, up 18.2 percent year-on-year
From the FAW Group official was informed that the overall sales of FAW Group in January this year was 353,000 units, up 18.2 percent year-on-year.
Specifically, FAW Pentium's official data shows that 13,900 units were sold as of January 22, up 60.4 percent year-on-year. According to the plan, Pentium 2020 will accelerate the layout of the two major product lines, S and E series, following the completion of sales of 114,000 units in 2019, in 2020 will challenge the annual sales of 200,000 units of the target; Red Flag brand in the past month to achieve sales of 13,000 new vehicles, an increase of 142.7 percent year-on-year, to achieve 6 percent of its 200,000 units of annual sales target.
The joint venture brands as a whole produced 200,000 new cars and sold 261,000 new ones. Among them, FAW-Volkswagen produced 140,000 new cars and sold 185,000 new cars, while FAW-Toyota produced 60,000 new cars and sold 76,000 new cars.
In addition, FAW Group, which resumed work and production on Feb. 10, said it will try to increase production capacity in the first quarter to minimize the impact of the epidemic, according to Gaixin.
Ten, Volvo: China market fell 16.2% year-on-year
February 4, Volvo Cars announced its global new car sales in January. The data showed that in the past 1 month, Volvo sold 46,000 new cars globally***, down about 9.7 percent year-on-year. Despite the drop in January sales, Volvo Cars remains confident of achieving growth for full-year 2020 sales.
In China, Volvo Cars' monthly sales fell 16.2% year-on-year to 10,000 units. 2019 saw new car sales in China fall again, but Volvo Cars' sales still bucked the market trend. Unexpectedly, the 2020 auto market began with a war "epidemic".
In order to reduce the pressure of the epidemic on dealers, Volvo Cars announced that it would relax its performance appraisal and not set a sales target for February, becoming the first company to provide subsidies for dealers. In addition, Volvo Cars will also provide over 10 million yuan in personnel subsidies directly to dealership staff to minimize the impact of the epidemic on dealer personnel income. At the same time, Volvo Cars also provides door-to-door maintenance and repair services for car owners, and extends the enjoyment of extended warranty rights until April 30, 2020 for eligible car owners.
Eleven, Nissan: luxury brand Infiniti rose 4.3% against the trend
Recently, Nissan officially released January sales in China. Statistics show that, under the influence of the Spring Festival holiday and the new Crown pneumonia epidemic, Nissan sold 118,000 new cars in January **** this year, a year-on-year decline of 11.8%.
Sales of Dongfeng Nissan, Dongfeng Qichen, Dongfeng Motor Co. and Zhengzhou Nissan all began to decline to varying degrees in the face of the cold reality after rebounding for four consecutive months.
Specifically, the passenger car business segment of Dongfeng Motor Co. (including Dongfeng Nissan and Dongfeng Qichen) posted sales of 101,000 units in January, down 10.9 percent from a year earlier. Among them, Dongfeng Nissan's sales (Nissan-branded models including imported models) were 92,000 units, down 8.1 percent year-on-year, while Dongfeng Qichen achieved only 0.9 million units, down 32.1 percent year-on-year due to a weaker market base and a deeper adjustment of its strategy.
Dongfeng Infiniti, its luxury brand, sold 0.3 million units in January, up 4.3 percent year-on-year. Infiniti's domestic models currently on sale include the luxury mid-size sedan Q50L and the new luxury mid-size SUV QX50, both of which also account for nearly 90 percent of the brand's sales in China. Though the single-vehicle sales base is still small, the market's performance is gradually warming up, which is a good signal for Infiniti.
Twelve, Mazda: FAW Mazda January sales rose 7.5% year-on-year
February 5, Mazda (China) released the January 2020 Mazda brand sales results in the Chinese market (retail). The data showed that in the past month, Mazda*** sold 21,000 new vehicles, down 8.2 percent year-on-year. Among them, the two major joint ventures, FAW Mazda and Changan Mazda, realized sales of 0.8 million and 13,000 units respectively, up 7.5 percent and -15.2 percent year-on-year.
On the next planning point of view, Changan Mazda will make a new model CX-30, as Changan Mazda's new heavyweight model in 2020, the listing is expected to boost the overall sales of Changan Mazda.
Thirteen, Azalea: overall delivery of 1598 units? Average daily delivery increased 22% year-on-year
February 10, 2020, Azalea officially announced the January delivery data. Affected by the Spring Festival holiday and the new Crown pneumonia epidemic, the overall delivery of Azalea Automobile in January was 1,598 units, down 11.5% year-on-year, and down nearly half of the ringgit. Among them, 1,493 units of ?ES6 were delivered and 105 units of ?ES8 were delivered. Up to now, Azera has delivered 33,511 units.
For January's sales performance, Azalea said that due to the impact of holidays and epidemics, there were five fewer days in January this year compared with the same period last year. With that, Azera's average daily deliveries in January were nearly 100 units, up 22 percent from 82 units in the same period last year. It was also revealed that as of Jan. 31, 2020, Azalea has opened 83 stores nationwide, including 22 Azalea Centers and 61 Azalea Spaces, and its sales network has covered 59 cities across the country.
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