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SAIC-Volkswagen offers up to $7,250 discount as China auto price war continues
The offer has a deadline of April 30, and SAIC-Volkswagen plans to offer up to RMB 3.7 billion in subsidies for car purchases.
(A screenshot from SAIC-Volkswagen's website shows the automaker's marketing of discounts.)
A Volkswagen joint venture in China has started offering official discounts as the price war in the Chinese auto industry continues.
SAIC-Volkswagen is offering limited-time discounts of up to RMB 50,000 yuan ($7,250) on its entire model lineup, the Volkswagen-SAC joint venture announced yesterday.
The offer has a deadline of April 30, and SAIC-Volkswagen plans to provide up to RMB 3.7 billion in subsidies for car purchases, according to a poster on its website.
The campaign involves 20 SAIC-Volkswagen models, the vast majority of which are conventional internal combustion engine vehicles, that can enjoy discounts ranging from RMB 15,000 to RMB 50,000.
The Volkswagen Phideon, with an official guide price of RMB 343,000 to RMB 449,000, received an RMB 50,000 discount, while most other models received discounts of RMB 25,000 to RMB 30,000.
SAIC-Volkswagen is offering discounts of RMB 20,000 for the ID.3 pure electric vehicle and RMB 30,000 for both the ID.4 X and ID.6 X.
In addition to the cash discounts, SAIC-Volkswagen is also offering trade-in benefits of up to RMB 12,000, as well as a zero-interest entitlement for 2-to-5-year loans.
One of the reasons SAIC-Volkswagen chose to cut prices is that the company is responding positively to China's policies as well as the consumer environment, sources at the automaker were quoted as saying in a report by Beijing News today.
On the other hand, SAIC-Volkswagen was able to get closer to consumers after the marketing changes and respond more quickly to consumer feedback, the source said.
Last week, both SAIC-Volkswagen and FAW-Volkswagen, another Volkswagen joint venture in China, began offering discounts of up to 40,000 yuan on ID. family models as the price war in China's auto industry intensified.
Volkswagen is one of the top car companies in China in terms of vehicle sales. SAIC-Volkswagen's retail sales in February were 74,013 units, down 7.7 percent from a year earlier, with a 5.3 percent share of the Chinese auto market, according to data released earlier this month by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).
FAW-Volkswagen sold 110,511 units in February, up 5.3 percent year-on-year, with an 8 percent share in China.
($1 = RMB 6.8925)
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