China imports November 2024: Range Rover (+58.3%), Lexus RX (+50.7%) defy market down -21%

Range Rover sales are up 58.3% in China in November.

Sales of new imports in China sink -21% year-on-year in November to just 52,131 units. This way, the year-to-date tally is now off -11.4% to 575,894. The Top 8 carmakers are all in negative, with Lexus (-13.8%) and Mercedes (-8.9%) improving share at the top. In contrast BMW (-27.2%), Porsche (-42%), Audi (-28.1%), Toyota (-26.4%) and Volkswagen (-31.7%) all freefall. Land Rover (-10.7%) and to a lesser extent Volvo (-19.4%) manage to keep their losses below the market rate. Subaru (+14.1%) is the highest ranking gainer at #10 but with just 460 sales it hardly makes an impact.

Over in the models charts, the Lexus ES (-30.9%) continues to dominate head and shoulders above the competition, selling over double any other vehicle, and this despite being hit hard. The Mercedes GLE (-5.1%) stabilises at #2 while the Lexus RX (+50.7%), Range Rover (+58.3%) and Lexus NX (+16.7%) completely ignore the gloom environment to round out the Top spot 5. The Land Rover Defender (-15.6%) and Volvo XC90 (-20.5%) are the only additional Top 10 models to perform relatively well in context, just as the Porsche Cayenne (-43%), Toyota Alphard (-36.6%) and BMW 4 Series (-26.7%) all struggle.

Previous month: China imports October 2024: Ferrari, Range Rover ignore market off -19.1%

One year ago: China imports November 2023: Land Rover, Audi impress in market up again

Full November 2024 Top 41 All brands and Top 184 All models below.