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CPCA's Cui Dongshu: Average New Car Length Rises to 4.72 Meters Over a Decade, SUVs Dominate with a 56% Share

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IT Home, November 15: Cui Dongshu, Secretary-General of the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), noted today that China's passenger car market is undergoing a "form revolution" driven by new energy technologies and consumption upgrading. Cui said that over the past decade, the average length of new cars has risen to 4.72 meters, and the market landscape has been completely overturned: SUVs dominate with a 56% share (IT Home note: the share was 38% in 2016); MPVs are moving away from the low end and toward ultimate luxury at 5.2 meters and above; traditional three-box sedans are retreating, while two-box crossover vehicles are rising against the trend. In terms of overall structure, the traditional "golden size" of 4.5–4.8 meters is under severe pressure, and the market shows a "dumbbell-shaped" polarization toward larger-than-segment vehicles above 4.8 meters and pure electric city cars below 4.5 meters. Cui believes that the essence of size inflation is the combined result of space freed up by pure electric platforms and automakers' "segment-leaping involution" as a dimensionality-reduction strike, marking that China's auto market has bid farewell to the old era of classifying

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Title: CPCA 崔东树: Average Length of New Cars Rises to 4.72 Meters Over Ten Years, SUVs Dominate with a 56% Share

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CPCA 崔东树: Average Length of New Cars Rises to 4.72 Meters Over Ten Years, SUVs Dominate with a 56% Share

IT Home, November 15 — Cui Dongshu, Secretary-General of the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), noted in an article today that China's passenger car market is undergoing a "form revolution" driven by new energy technologies and consumption upgrades.

崔东树 stated that over the past decade, the average length of new cars has increased to 4.72 meters, and the overall market landscape has been completely overturned: SUVs dominate with a 56% share (IT Home note: the share was 38% in 2016); MPVs have moved away from the low end and are heading comprehensively toward extreme luxury at 5.2 meters and above; traditional three-box sedans have retreated, while two-box crossover vehicles are rising against the trend.

In terms of overall structure, the traditional "golden size" of 4.5–4.8 meters is under severe squeeze, and the market shows a "dumbbell-shaped" characteristic of polarization toward upscale large cars above 4.8 meters and pure electric commuter cars below 4.5 meters.

崔东树 believes that the essence of size inflation is the combined result of the space release enabled by pure electric platforms and automakers' "upward-scaling involution" as a dimensionality-reduction strike, marking that China's auto market has bid farewell to the old era of classifying vehicle classes by wheelbase and has fully entered a new era of scenario-based competition featuring deep integration of large space and intelligence.

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