New cars are difficult to mention, used car prices rise, global automotive chip shortages affect the auto market

  As the saying goes, "Golden Nine, Silver and Ten Car Buying Season", in the context of the global automotive chip shortage, what new changes have been made in the auto market for this year's "Golden Nine, Silver and Ten"?

During the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, reporters from Beijing Youth Daily visited a number of car 4S shops and second-hand car trading markets and found that the car sales market was booming, with new car purchase discounts drastically reduced, and car pick-up time lengthened; at the same time, second-hand car prices increased significantly. Popular models are more in demand.

New car

Increase in fare and postponement make it difficult to pick up the car

  "I remember last year there was a discount of 50,000 to 60,000 for this car. How come there is no discount at all?" In an Audi 4S store in Chaoyang District, Mr. Sun, who came to buy the car, said that he wanted to buy one at the end of last year. For a luxury car with a price of more than 400,000 yuan, the discount was up to 60,000 yuan at that time, which was equivalent to a 15% discount, but now I asked again, but there was no discount, only part of the decoration was given, which made him regret it.

  In a BMW store in Tongzhou, Mr. Chen told reporters that he wanted to buy a BMW 3 Series last year, but it was shelved because of the epidemic.

Recently, he went to the store and found out that the discount for car purchase was much less than expected.

The sales staff told him that due to the lack of cores in cars, most brands and models are now available at discounted prices, and there are no existing cars in the store. You have to wait at least three months to pick up the car.

  During the reporter's interview, it was found that it is not uncommon to sell new cars at original prices, and some models have been sold at increased prices.

For example, Crown Lufang has to add 20,000 yuan, and the increase rate of Wilfa, Alfa, Mercedes-Benz Grand G and so on can even be as high as several hundred thousand yuan.

In addition, there are not only high-end cars but also some models of joint venture cars and domestically produced cars.

  "The overall discount for new cars has dropped by about 20%-30%." A sales manager of Beijing Baideli Star told reporters that due to the shortage of chips, the production volume is now low. It usually takes 2 weeks for fuel vehicles to pick up the car, and the price of the car is higher than before. An average increase of 20,000 yuan.

In addition to the reduction in car price concessions, the delivery time has also been longer than before.

Second-hand car

The purchase price has risen sharply

  When new cars have been waiting for a long time and prices have risen sharply, high-value used cars have become "hot goods" in the market.

A second-hand car dealer in Huaxiang in Beijing told reporters that the second-hand car market's hot-selling Accord, CR-V and other models have seen a sharp increase in the price of second-hand recycling recently.

Some second-hand cars with a vehicle age of one year and in excellent condition are directly listed at the same price as a new car.

For example, a new Toyota Prado car sells for about 500,000 yuan, but a three-year-old used car can still sell for 500,000 yuan.

In addition, the prices of some imported second-hand luxury cars, such as BMW 4 Series, 5 Series, Porsche 918, etc., have increased by 10% to 20% over the same period last year.

  “Used cars are now more sought-after than new cars, among which new cars are particularly prominent.” Sales of the Huaxiang second-hand car market’s surname Liu told reporters that because many new cars are currently reserved, and second-hand cars are in stock, some consumers choose second-hand cars. .

"The number of quasi-new cars on the market was originally small, and the price has always been higher. Now the discounts for new cars have declined, and they are even more tightly sold."

  "Basically how much the price of a new car will increase, so will the price of used cars." The sales surnamed Liu told reporters, especially the second-hand "quasi-new car" with a vehicle age of 1 to 3 years and a mileage of less than 50,000 kilometers. New car discounts A reduction of 40,000 to 50,000 yuan will increase the price of used cars by 40,000 to 50,000 yuan.

For some second-hand cars with a vehicle age of more than 5 years, the increase is not too obvious.

Quasi-new car

Some car companies repurchase quasi new cars at original prices

  It is understood that at present, some 4s stores of luxury car companies in Jiangsu, Fujian, Shandong, Tianjin, Sichuan and other regions have launched activities to collect used cars at fares.

  A message pushed by BMW brand dealer Chengdu Baoyue Automobile Co., Ltd. on its official WeChat account on September 15 said: “As long as it is a BMW 3 series, X3 (excluding new energy Car), the mileage does not exceed 15,000 kilometers, and is in line with the quasi-new car condition. We will collect your car at the then-opening fare.” Another BMW dealer stated in its poster that for the period from January 1, 2020 to 2021 The new BMW 3 series, 4 series, 5 series, X3 series, the number of kilometers does not exceed 15000 kilometers, no accidents, no structural losses, and the fare will be awarded after inspection. Repurchase.

The deadline for the event is October 31, 2021.

  The reason why dealers rarely buy back second-hand cars with fares is that the shortage of car chips has caused the price of some second-hand cars to rise sharply, and there has even been a phenomenon of "price inversion" where the price of second-hand cars is more expensive than new cars.

expert

May be alleviated in the first half of next year

  According to data from the China Automobile Dealers Association, in August this year, the national second-hand car market transaction volume was 1,498,200, a month-on-month increase of 2.69%. From January to August, the total number of second-hand car transactions nationwide was 11.3911,500, a year-on-year increase of 40.38%.

According to data from the Ministry of Commerce, in July, the transaction volume of second-hand cars was 1.459 million, an increase of 15.7% year-on-year; the ratio between the transaction volume of second-hand cars and new cars reached 0.78, continuing to hit a new high.

  Regarding the phenomenon of "new cars are difficult to mention, and the price of second-hand cars", automotive analyst Zhang Xiang said that the occurrence of this situation shows that the production capacity of automobiles cannot meet the demand for orders, and the reason for limiting automobile production capacity is lack of cores.

At present, most of the joint venture car companies and imported car companies are facing the problem of lack of cores. Automotive chips are a very monopolistic industry. Only a few companies in the world can meet the production requirements. At present, BYD and Tesla are both in Independent research and development of chips, if you want to alleviate this situation, at least until the first half of next year.

  Zhang Xiang also said that when people buy cars, they might as well focus on local self-owned brand models, because most of these cars use low-end chips, which are less affected by the lack of cores; you can also look at the old ones. Models, the price increase of these models is not particularly large.

Text/Reporter Wang Ronghui

  Coordinator/Yu Meiying