Vans are a dying breed of automobile. Even the Chinese are turning their backs on him. A direct neighbor is the only large market that continues to focus on family cars.
The van is on the retreat worldwide. In Europe, the number of new registrations of classic family cars has fallen from around one million to 220,000 units since 2017, according to data from the consulting firm Inovev. In China, sales have halved from 2 million to one million units in the same period. The slump is even worse in the USA, where demand has fallen from 1.3 million vehicles a year to just 250,000 recently. Even trendsetter Renault gives up In Europe, the van boom reached its peak in 2006 with 2.3 million units. The trendsetter in 1984 was the Renault Espace, which established the segment in Europe. More models followed, until the market share of the vehicle class had grown to 15 percent almost 20 years later. The fall was as quick as the rise: in 2013 the market share was 10 percent, in 2018 it was 5 percent and most recently it was only 2 percent. The only major growth market for vans worldwide is India, where sales of one million units are in 2017 to around 1.2 million last year. That is almost half of the global van sales of around 3 million units recently. The reason for the likely permanent extinction of the van is the emergence of the SUV. The crossovers offer similar utility, but score points with a more modern image and beefy styling. The current Renault Espace is no longer a van, but an SUV.
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