There is often a sentence on the Internet: What is the mentality of people who buy Mercedes-Benz C? Of course, the Mercedes C here can also be exchanged for the Audi A4L and BMW 3 Series.
However, because the Mercedes-Benz C-Class has been questioned the most, it has become our title.
In the following answers, there are often statements like this:
It's all about face. Those who buy this entry-level BBA are all fat people with swollen faces. It is better to buy a Mercedes-Benz C than a Volkswagen Passat, and it is better to buy a Honda Accord.
First of all, refute a widely circulated rumor, 34C is not an entry-level BBA, if they are entry-level, then what are BMW 1 Series, Audi A3, Mercedes-Benz A-class? Outside the door? Or are they expelled from the BBA system?
In fact, don't look at the many people who ridicule 34C on the Internet, but in fact, there are still a few people who can afford this car, even at present, fuel vehicles are greatly reduced in price.
How much money you can come up with to buy a car, and how much money you have, are completely different things, some people say, I make 100,000 yuan a year by delivering takeaways, can't I buy a Mercedes-Benz C in 3 years? Then you don't eat or drink? Don't have any other living expenses? Don't have a mortgage? Don't have any children to raise? If you really make 300,000 yuan from takeaways and use the 300,000 yuan to buy a Mercedes-Benz C-class, then you must be burning.
People who can take out 300,000 to buy a car means that taking these 300,000 will have little impact on its quality of life, and can you do it? In reality, there are many people who take out loans to get on this car, but the loan also needs to be repaid.
Simply calculate the account, we take a naked car price of 300,000 yuan as an example, take a loan of 200,000 yuan, pay it off in three years, need to repay the loan of 6,100 yuan every month, need a down payment of 135,000 yuan, and the expenses of fuel, maintenance, and insurance? Simply calculated, if you take out a loan of 200,000 yuan, the money spent on this car will be seven or eight thousand per month. Can the average working family afford this expense?
Have you ever forced a luxury car with leverage? Yes, but either the family helps, or because they can't afford to repay the loan, they have to sell the car after a year, why is the second-hand car market, so many luxury cars that have been driven for a year or two, this is the reason.
In 2023, the per capita disposable income of residents in the country will be 39,218 yuan, and the median per capita disposable income of residents in the country will be 33,036 yuan.
Let's take a look at the market structure of the domestic passenger car price segment for the whole year of 2023:
Models with less than 50,000 yuan accounted for 2.9%
5-100,000 yuan sales accounted for 14.8% of the total
10-150,000 yuan model 2023 full-year market share 34%
Models with 15-200,000 yuan have a market share of 17.5% for the whole year
Models with 200,000-300,000 yuan accounted for 17.2% of sales
300,000-400,000 models, accounting for 10.2%
Models with more than 400,000 units accounted for 4.3% of the total
Thanks to the improvement of the national income level in the past two years, and the trend of consumption upgrading, the sales of more than 300,000 models have increased greatly, but it is only less than 15%, and if it is placed in the number of more than 300 million cars, the proportion of more than 300,000 models is less than 10%.
In fact, having said so much, I just want to tell you that it's okay to talk about it on the Internet, but in reality, people who buy Mercedes-Benz C-class are definitely not the swollen faces and fat people that many people say, and many people don't even have the ability to slap swollen faces, and they laugh at others, mainly because they have not been beaten by society. When I was a child, I wanted to buy a Lamborghini, I wanted to buy an Audi when I was in school, and I bought a Geely after working, which is a true portrayal of many people.