Young Chinese are reluctant to use public transport, which has boosted sales of cheap new cars. The low-cost brand of VW, the Jetta, launched last autumn, benefits a lot from this.
For a long time, China seemed to be one of the leading markets for community car sharing. Then came the coronavirus, and people don’t even want to use a car so much anymore: they’d rather buy their own. The private car jumped from third to first among the preferred modes of transportation.
Of course, they have no money for it, at least for young people, but no matter: there is a solution for every situation. In the present case, the Jetta, which in China is not a type but a sub-brand of Volkswagen.
Designed specifically for young people, their first car is the VS7 recreational vehicle introduced in March this year, as well as the VS5 crossover and VA3 sedan available since last September. Demand is characterized by a 12% drop in interest in the Jetta this year, while the overall market has shrunk by 30 percent - the latter being a figure compared to April last year, while for the Jetta only for the first four months of the brand’s life: last year they could have compared sales to autumn.
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