东风汽车集团8月销量227084辆，同比下降11.07%。今年前八个月集团同比销量下降1.65%至1923186辆。其中，乘用车累计生产量同比增加2.08%至173.42万辆，累计销售量同比减少1.92%至1632009辆。具体车型市场表现来看，无论是SUV还是MPV8月销量同比都出现了下降，轿车表现好于SUV和MPV，8月销量101423辆，同比增长3.93%，前八个月累计销量796059辆，同比增长3.91%。今年前八个月乘用车造成销量下降的原因主要是因为东风集团自主品牌东风柳汽在乘用车方面的销量有高达33.41%的下降。另一家主要乘用车公司——东风乘用车公司，前八个月销量也同比下降了19.72%至63387辆。东风日产8月和今年前八个月销量出现正增长。而另外三家合资公司，东风本田、东风雷诺和东风标致雪铁龙则没那么幸运。东风集团与法国雪铁龙公司合资合作的神龙汽车，今年前8月总销量18.71万辆，同比下降了4.12%，而神龙今年的销售目标是41万辆。神龙近年来销量一路下滑，2014和2015年销量约为70万辆，到2017年就降至43.3万辆。此外，受到CR-V销售暂停，消费者投诉和诸如思域、CR-V及UR-V等热门车型召回的影响，东风本田今年前八个月销量也出现下滑。东风本田到2020年要完成100万辆的销售目标，从目前的趋势看，能否实现目标也要打一个问号了。
Dongfeng Motor Group posts 11.07% YoY drop in August sales
Dongfeng Motor Group Company Limited (Dongfeng Motor Group) reported a year-on-year drop of 11.07% in August sales with 227,084 vehicles delivered. For the first eight months, the group's year-to-date sales edged down 1.65% from a year ago to 1,923,186 units.
As a major profit source for the group, the PV sector saw a slight year-on-year decrease of 1.92% with the sales reaching 1,632,009 units from January to August. As to the performance of each segment, both SUV and MPV segments encountered year-on-year downturn in August sales and Jan-Aug sales. The car segment outperformed that of the SUV and MPV in terms of August sales with 101,423 units handed over, a year-on-year growth of 3.93%. Meanwhile, the year-to-date car sales, totaling 796,059 units, presented a positive growth of 3.91% over a year earlier.
The Jan-Aug sales decline for the PV sector majorly resulted from the 33.41% year-on-year slump for Dongfeng Liuzhou's PV unit. Dongfeng Passenger Vehicle Company, another main PV unit for the group, also saw its cumulative sales evidently shrank 19.72% to 63,387 units through August.
Dongfeng Nissan boasted positive year-on-year growth in both August sales and Jan-Aug sales. However, the other three JVs, namely, Dongfeng Honda, Dongfeng Renault and Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile (DPCA) were not that lucky.
The Sino-French JV DPCA witnessed its sales dwindle 4.12% over the previous year to 187,101 units during the first eight months, which was far behind the 410,000-unit sales goal. DPCA has been involved in continuous sales decline in recent years. Its sales in 2014 and 2015 hovered around 700 thousand units on an annual basis, while sharply plunged to around 433 thousand units in 2017.
In addition, Dongfeng Honda came across year-on-year drop in Jan-Aug sales as well affected by such troubles as the sales suspension of the CR-V, customers’ complaints and the recall of several hotter selling models like the Civic, the CR-V and UR-V. The current sales performance leaves a question for the JV to complete the 1 million-unit sales target by 2020.