【编者按】除了主要国家及地区汽车分类方法，世界还有一些主要汽车分类标准，以下做一简介。
 
Vehicle size categories for passenger vehicles for the China NCAP program as defined by the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) may appear similar to the European system, but are closer to the Japanese in application.

 Small cars, sometimes referred to as the A0-segment, are vehicles including MPVs of less than 4 m in length (roughly corresponding to the European A- and B-segments, and the US EPA's mini- and subcompact （微型汽车）classes).

 Category A (A-segment) vehicles are 2-box vehicles (hatchbacks（二厢车）, MPVs or wagons) of between 4 and 4.5 meters in length, or 3-box vehicles（三厢车） (i.e. sedans with a trunk) with engines of less than 1600 cc.

 Category B (B-segment) vehicles are longer than 4.5 m in length with engines of over 1600 cc.

 Multi-Purpose Vehicles, or MPVs: those with more than two rows of seats.

 Sport Utility vehicles or SUVs.

【中文注解】

以上分类方法是由中国技术与研究中心(CATARC)提供的，它近似于欧洲分类，不过与日本分类法更近（不提供直接译文）。