General Motors Corp. announced recently that sales in April pushed the Chevrolet brand past 500,000 units in China since the brands introduction in 2000.
Collective sales of Chevrolet vehicles through the end of April totaled 519,110 units.
More than 400,000 of the vehicles sold came from Shanghai GM, a 50-50 joint venture between GM and Shanghai Automotive [...]
Volkswagen AG, the second-biggest overseas carmaker in China, sold 368,000 vehicles in the world’s second-largest auto market in the first four months of this year, up 28% from a year earlier, outstripping a 18% rise in China’s overall car sales in the same period.
The German carmaker benefited from January’ introduction of Santana Vista, a new [...]
China’s passenger-car sales rose 11 percent in April, as economic growth made vehicles affordable to more people in the world’s second-largest auto market.
Automakers sold 604,900 cars and sport-utility vehicles in the country last month, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said in an e-mailed statement today. Sales rose 24 percent in March, the biggest increase [...]
General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner says GM and its joint ventures in China will invest around $1 billion annually in the next few years to boost R&D capacities and acclerate its expansion in one of the world’s fastest-growing markets.
Wagoner told the media in a recent interview that China still has great potential for further growth, [...]
US auto giant General Motors is likely to up its stake in its Chinese venture SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co (SGMW). The growing interest in the joint venture is the result of GM’s strategy to make cheap small cars to compete with the recently displayed under-$2,500 Tata Nano.
Wuling is an integral part of GM’s overall growth strategy [...]
General Motors’ commercial vehicle venture in China is recalling 26,076 minibuses in the country to fix potential problems with fuel sensors, China’s quality watchdog said.
The Wuling-branded mini-buses were produced by SAIC-GM-Wuling between Aug. 9, 2007, and March 15, 2008, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said late on Tuesday.
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