What is the difference between the broad sense and the narrow sense of passenger cars? Wuling does not appear in the "narrow sense list"

Reader questions:

Why does SAIC-GM-Wuling rank seventh in the sales ranking of automobile manufacturers in the broad sense of passenger cars, but is missing from the narrow sense of passenger car rankings? What is the difference between the broad and narrow sense of passenger cars, and what models do they have?

It is very touching that there are really attentive readers.

When publishing sales data, the information of "generalized passenger cars" will be used by default. This point really needs to be explained. The reason for this choice is that most people will not classify the vehicle models in detail. , at best, it will classify buses, trucks and family cars; therefore, it is not appropriate to deliberately exclude certain controversial models, and it may even easily cause unnecessary debates, but since there are readers who are interested, I must talk about it. said.

Key model: MINIBUS.

What is MINIBUS?

Mini is a borrowed word. MINI is not a Chinese pinyin but an English word, which means small, micro, small, ultra-small or ultra-short.

Bus is a borrowed word. Bus means bus, which generally refers to various types of passenger vehicles; such as minibuses, minibuses, buses, travel buses, etc.

MINIBUS naturally refers to "minibus" or "minibus", and its corresponding model name is "van"! The reason why minibuses are also called minibuses is because the early mid-mounted, rear-drive minibuses looked like a complete piece of toast, hence the name. The initial use of microbuses was "MINIBUS". To put it bluntly, they were minibuses. The applicable scenarios were rural areas, towns or mountainous areas with few people and remote areas. It was the same in Europe and the United States. Later, as large buses were widely used for public transportation For travel, rural buses have also been upgraded, so Micron has played the role of taxis. The early taxis were called "Mian's", which refers to "van taxis".

Taxi is also a borrowed word, which is the transliteration of TAXI. These borrowed words are basically popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan. In a special period, some guys are relatively boneless. Every word is a mixture of Chinese; that's why there are these nondescript words, including the common word for engine (engine), and the real imported words should be nouns that cannot be translated and annotated.

This is off topic.

The reason why we need to talk about microfacets in detail is that in the broad sense, passenger cars include microfacets, but in the narrow sense, passenger cars do not include microfacets; because microfacets were initially used for commercial purposes. It should belong to the category of commercial vehicles and the "passenger car" sequence. However, with the popularity of ordinary cars and SUV models, Weixian was eliminated by the taxi industry after being eliminated by public cars; later Weixian was mainly targeted at individual market users, including a considerable number of family car users. , so it is indeed inappropriate to exclude microfacets from passenger models, but it is also inappropriate to discuss them alongside cars and other models. After all, microfacets are used more often as tool vehicles, so there are broad and narrow senses, and microfacets are also It became a "crossover passenger car".

Secondly, some models defined as "light passenger" also belong to the broad sense of passenger cars, because many of these models also meet the standards of M1 passenger vehicles; the M1 standard is that the maximum total mass exceeds one ton. Passenger cars with no more than eight passenger seats (≤9 seats) other than the driver's seat, and many light passengers meet the standards.

On the contrary, the model after removing the micro-surface and some light passenger cars is a narrow passenger car.

Models include: sedans, SUVs (including off-road vehicles), MPVs

These are the three types.

There is no need to explain too much about cars. Hatchbacks, sedans, and wagons are all cars.

SUV is not an off-road vehicle, and sport utility vehicle is translated as sport utility vehicle; the English word for off-road vehicle is off-road vehicle, but now off-road vehicles are not separately classified as a type of vehicle, because The appearance characteristics of SUV and ORV models are basically the same, so off-road vehicles are classified into SUV models for statistics.

MPV refers to multi-purpose vehicle, which is translated as multi-purpose vehicle and is not a "commercial vehicle"; however, it is generally called a commercial vehicle because the price of early MPV models is very high and ordinary families are not The main users of MPV are mostly business people or enterprises, so over time it got this special name.

What is the original intention of such a subdivision?

It seems that after talking all over the place, everyone still has some opinions on vans, or on light passenger cars or other models; in fact, this is not difficult to understand, because the car manufacturers that initially produced micro-surfaces were basically independent Car dealers, to put it bluntly, focus on self-owned brands. Adding the data of this model will show that the sales of self-owned brands are high. Especially after joining part of Qingke, Qingke used to be mainly joint venture brands, but now the share of independent brands is very high.

However, the three major models of sedans, SUVs and MPVs are the main areas that joint venture car manufacturers are involved in. The rankings of all narrowly defined passenger cars will show that joint venture cars have high sales; the data from the Passenger Car Association will clearly distinguish It is not difficult to understand in both broad and narrow senses. The Passenger Car Association is an unofficial association established by several major joint venture automobile manufacturers. The chairman unit is SAIC Volkswagen. However, SAIC-GM-Wuling is also a joint venture car company, but the brand belongs to Guangxi Automobile Group, and the brand is independent. This manufacturer started by manufacturing vans, and its current share is quite high, so the sales volume will be much worse after removing vans.

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