China’s passenger vehicle sales fell 5.4% year on year and 6.0% month on month, data from China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) shows.
Passenger vehicle sales totaled 434,271 units in August, including 335,296 units sedans (-0.6%), 12,255 MPVs (-28.7%), 28,855 SUVs (-0.8%) and 57,865 units minivans (-5.7%).
In the passenger car segment no automaker saw its sales exceed [...]
Great Wall Motor Co Ltd will start exporting another two of its small-engine vehicle models to Russia from next year as it aims to meet growing demand for fuel-efficient compact cars.
Hebei Province-based Great Wall plans to sell 1.3-liter and 1.5-liter Florid and Coolbear compact cars in Russia, according to Zhang Guangxin, who is in charge [...]
The rapid growth in Chinese sales of sedans, SUVs and light trucks slowed sharply in July as sales rose just 6.8 percent over the same month of 2007, the lowest monthly expansion rate in two years, an industry group reported Friday.
Sales of sedans rose by just 1.6 percent, according to the China Association of Automobile [...]
China’s Hebei Zhongxing Automobile Co is seeking to end its partnership with Chamco Auto after internal wranglings at the United States importer.
“Chamco has been involving in a series of legal battles and failed to provide us with detailed proposals,” said a Zhongxing official surnamed Chen yesterday. “This made us feel it would be hard to [...]
Buick Enclave SUV, unveiled at the 2008 Beijing auto show in April, has been approved for import to China. The luxury model will be equipped with Buick Park Avenue’s 3.6-liter V-6 engine and a 6-speed manual/automatic transmission, according to cheshi.com.
Having passed the marathon road test and gained import approval from the industry regulator in China, [...]
Sold in China as imported cars for many years, the Nissan X-Trail, one of the purest Nissan SUVs, will be locally produced in China in October, and the Chinese-made X-Trail SUV will go on sale by the end of this year priced at 200,000 yuan ($29,300) to 250,000 yuan, reported China Business News today.
The Nissan [...]
