The top 25 best-selling models in China in 2022
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The top 25 best-selling models in China in 2022
- The Chinese passenger car market reached 23,563,287 units in 2022, compared to 21,481,537 units in 2021 and 20,177,731 in 2020. This market has resumed its growth after the bad years of 2018 and 2019. Even if the Volkswagen group still remains the sales leader on the Chinese market in 2022, it is losing market share each year to Chinese carmakers (including BYD) its share having fallen to 13% in 2022 against 14% in 2021, 17% in 2020 and 19% in 2019.
- The best-selling model on the Chinese market in 2022 remains as in 2021 the WulingHongguang Mini EV which is a small battery electric A-segment car and which has managed to revive a marginal A-segment in China, a market mainly of C and D segments cars.
- The battery electric Tesla Model Y takes second place in 2022, resulting in two BEVs leading sales in China last year, which doesn't seem surprising given that BEVs accounted for more than 20% of the market in 2022.
- The BYD Song DM takes third place, due to strong growth over the previous year. This model is one of the plug-in hybrid models marketed by the Chinese brand BYD. Classic models such as the Volkswagen Lavida are losing ground, as demand is shifting more and more to battery electric or plug-in hybrid models and less and less to thermal models. And Chinese carmakers have a advantage on foreign carmakers in terms of battery electric motorization (except perhaps in the case of Tesla).
Seat will stop the production of cars from 2030
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Seat will stop the production of cars from 2030
- Founded in 1950, the Spanish car brand Seat first assembled Fiat brand cars under license, for the domestic Spanish market and then for the domestic market and export. In 1986, the Seat brand was bought by Volkswagen, which made it its Spanish subsidiary. From this date, the Seat brand is integrated into the Volkswagen group alongside the Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and Porsche brands. It is then in terms of price at the level of the Czech firm Skoda. The platforms and engines were gradually taken over from the group's other brands.
- Its production volume in Martorell (Spain) was 300,000 to 400,000 units per year between 2000 and 2016, then the expansion of the Seat range to SUVs made it possible to increase this production volume to 500,000 units in 2018, then 575,000 in 2019, a year that marks a peak in production.
- It was at this time that the management of Volkswagen decided to create the Cupra brand (ex-sports subsidiary of Seat) which made it possible to market sportier, more expensive cars, but also to offer plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and battery electric cars (BEV) under this new brand.
- The Cupra brand achieved 125,000 sales in 2022 and Volkswagen management intends to quadruple this volume of sales by 2030, part of which will be produced at the Martorell site. As a result of this strategy, the Seat brand is being abandoned (no new models planned until 2030) and sales are collapsing (250,000 in 2022). Very recently, the management of Volkswagen has just announced that the Seat firm will stop producing cars from 2030.
The 25 best-selling SUVs in Europe in 2021 and 2022
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The 25 best-selling SUVs in Europe in 2021 and 2022
- Two Volkswagen models (T-Roc and Tiguan) take the top two spots in the European SUV market in 2022.
- The former Peugeot 2008 leader is relegated to third place, just ahead of the Tesla Model Y, which quadruples its sales in 2022 compared to 2021.
- Of the 25 best-selling SUVs in Europe in 2022, there are 13 European brand models, 4 Korean brand models, 5 Japanese brand models
and 3 American brand models.
and 3 American brand models.
The global light vehicle market (PC+LUV) increased by 9.8% in the first quarter of 2023
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The global light vehicle market (PC+LUV) increased by 9.8% in the first quarter of 2023
- Partly thanks to the restocking of new vehicles carried out in 2022 (production surplus of 3.388 million units last year), global sales of new vehicles rose sharply in the first quarter of 2023, after a year 2022 that had seen global vehicle sales fall by 2%, achieving the lowest sales volume since 2011.
- According to Inovev's calculations, the market of new light vehicles (PC+LUV) increased by 9.8% in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the first quarter of 2022. Sales of passenger cars (PC) increased by 10,8% over this period and light utility vehicles (LUV) by 5.8%.
- If this growth rate is maintained until the end of the year, Inovev estimates that the global automotive market (PC+LUV) could reach a volume of 80 million units in 2023, compared to 73 million in 2022, 74, 5 million in 2021, 73.5 million in 2020 and 80 million in 2019. We would thus find the sales volume of 2019. The sales volume of 2019 was not the largest of the decade because the years 2016-2017-2018 saw higher sales volumes, in the order of 83 / 85 million units per year . We are therefore still far from the pre-crisis figures. But we could get closer.
- But it should be noted that it is not certain that this rhythm will be maintained between now and the end of the year, because many sales were made in the first quarter of 2023 according to orders placed in 2022.
Inovev forecasts 250,000 units of the new Mini Cooper per year in the world
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Inovev forecasts 250,000 units of the new Mini Cooper per year in the world
- The Mini brand (a subsidiary of the BMW group) now includes two different models:
• The "Mini" model by itself (Mini One or Mini Hatch depending on the market) available as a 3/5 doors sedan and 5-doors station wagon (this station wagon version is called Clubman);
• The 5-doors SUV model referred to as "Countryman".
- The Mini brand has just unveiled the fifth generation of the Mini in a 3-doors sedan version. The body of the new model (code F66) remains practically the same but certain details make it possible to identify the new generation, such as the triangular taillights, a different tailgate shape or a redesigned grille. The launch of the fifth generation of Mini coincides with a new naming because the model is now called Cooper in all markets. The Mini brand therefore now includes 2 models: the Cooper model and the Countryman model. It seems that the 5-door sedan and 5-door Clubman will not be replaced. Two battery electric (BEV) versions of the Cooper will appear on the market, one with a 135 kW electric motor and the other with a 160 kW electric motor, both versions being equipped with a 54 kWh capacity battery.
- Importantly, the Mini Cooper BEV (only available in a three-doors version) will be produced exclusively in China with Great Wall (50-50 between BMW and Great Wall), while the combustion engine versions will be produced in England, in Oxford, as previously. Inovev forecasts 250,000 Mini Coopers per year, including 50,000 BEVs in 2025 then 100,000 in 2030 (compared to 43,000 in 2022).
- These figures do not include the 5-door Mini Countryman which should be renewed in November 2023 and will be available for the first time in BEV version. This new Countryman will be produced in Germany, in Leipzig.
- These figures also do not include the 5-door Mini Aceman which should be launched next year. This intermediate model (4.05 m long) between Mini Cooper (3.85 m long) and Mini Countryman (4.40 m long) will be a battery electric models made in China with Great Wall.