Audi Q5 is priced at 360,000-570,000 yuan, but consumers need to raise the price by 10,000 to 30,000 yuan to pick up the car. Recently, by China's anti-monopoly impact, China's regional Audi 4S stores have canceled the price increase to pick up the car conditions. An Audi sales manager in Wuhan said that the "preferential policy" for flat-price pickups began in early August and will end at the end of September.

What kind of market is it that makes buying a car at its original price a "deal"? Ridiculous, if you want to buy a Range Rover now, you still need to add tens of thousands of dollars, compared to Audi can be said to be "generous".

Buying a foreign luxury car with a price increase is a "Chinese characteristic", another characteristic is that they are sold in China more expensive than abroad, much more expensive. Some say it's because of high taxes in China, while others say it's a case of "Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai". Both arguments are valid, but obviously not the whole story. There are three types of taxes on imported luxury cars: customs duty, consumption tax and value-added tax. Tariff = car tax-paid price * tax rate (25%); consumption tax = (car tax-paid price + tariff) / (1 - tax rate) * tax rate (according to the different displacement tax rate is different); VAT = (car tax-paid price + tariff + consumption tax) * tax rate (17%). Duty-paid price = FOB price of the car + freight + premium before customs clearance, etc. For the sake of simplicity of calculation, let's assume that the duty-paid price is equal to the U.S. selling price of the model. (Interested readers can do the math themselves.) After calculation, we found that the price in China is still much higher than the price after tax increase.

China is already the world's No. 1 auto market, and thanks to its rapid economic development, its share of the world's auto market will continue to expand. But this does not mean that foreign luxury cars in China can be emboldened to do good business all the time. The market needs to be monitored and regulated, at the same time, the rise of domestic cars is the most effective way to crack the monopoly of luxury cars.(source) (Observer)