The demand for extra luggage space has increased off late. For family trips and weekend trips, the amount of luggage that the family or the person carries has increased over the years. This is also coupled by the amount of accessories that a luggage requires when a person goes on an adventure trips. Increasing luggage would require the owners to add a roof rack to the car to transport extra luggage. Nowadays, people carry more clobber, go on more holidays, and participate in sports that require more bulky kits than just a football or tennis racquet. Even a couple of mountain bikes carried on a rack can contribute to the rising demand for car racks. All such events demand an extra luggage space, which is more than a conventional boot space.

Since 2017, competition in Mexico’s light vehicle industry has been intensifying, as an increasing number of carmakers have opted to adapt their product portfolio to capture growing demand in the US market for light commercial vehicles. Despite uncertainty surrounding the renegotiation of NAFTA, Mexican exports of light vehicles to the US reached a new record high of 3.5mn units in 2018. Motor vehicle producers with a faster adaptation and a higher export orientation experienced the best results over the last two years, while companies that relied more on the domestic market underperformed, due to a decline in new vehicle sales in Mexico in both 2017 and 2018.

根据 7 月交强险数据，7 月乘用车零售销量 1372309 辆，同比-16.8%，其中国六地区零售销量 873820辆，同比-21.0%，国五地区零售销量 509141 辆，同比-8.4%，7 月零售端表现超市场预期。基于对 7 月及历史数据分析，提出乘用车后市三大预判如下。

上周（8 月12 日-8 月16 日）沪深300 指数上升2.1%，A 股汽车整车板块上升2.0%，汽车零部件板块上升0.6%。个股方面：A 股方面，长安汽车以14.2%的涨幅位列最前，中原内配以2.9%的跌幅领跌。H 股方面，中升控股以7.2%的涨幅位列最前，敏实集团以5.4%的跌幅领跌。

19 年7 月，狭义乘用车上牌量为137 万台，同比下降16.8%，环比下降34.4%。本月狭义乘用车批发量为153 万台，同比下滑2.9%，环比下降10.0%。1-7 月乘用车交强险上牌量累计1155 万台，同比下滑0.9%。

8 月5 日，滴滴出行宣布正式拆分旗下自动驾驶部门，将其升级为独立公司，主要专注于自动驾驶研发、产品应用及相关业务拓展。出行服务巨头开始正式结集力量，向自动驾驶领域进军。

2Q19 同比降幅收窄。受全球经济影响， 3Q18 开始全球汽车市场同步进入衰退期，4Q18 同比降幅为9.5%，达到最低谷。2Q19 全球汽车销售2311.9 万辆，同比下滑2.7%，降幅收窄。