Clouds on the horizon for the Chinese market? Picture: the new generation Haval H6, launched in August. Figures released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) could indicate the end of the much-admired post-pandemic rebound in China. After April (+4.4%), May (+14.5%), June (+11.6%) and July (+16.4%) all showed gravity-defying surges, wholesales of…
Wuling retail sales are up 41.6% even before the introduction of the Hongguang MINI EV. Pictured: Hongguang Plus. Data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) shows July retail sales of Passenger Vehicles in China up a sturdy 7.9% year-on-year to 1.625.000 units, the largest increase in over two years:…
The Audi Q8 breaks into the Top 20 imports for the first time in July. After a logical slump last month due to unusually high year-ago volumes, the Chinese imports market bounces back up 8.4% year-on-year in July to 85.215 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -22.7% to 518.954.…
After detailing Chinese July wholesales, it is now time for our monthly review of the new locally-produced launches. This way you can stay up-to-the-minute on the latest in the world's largest car market. After two months with an avalanche of novelties, July marks a pause with just 3 new launches. But…
The Toyota RAV4 breaks a six year-old monthly volume record in July. After surging +14.5% in May, and +11.6% in June, Chinese wholesales accelerate their post-Covid rebound in July at a superb +16.4% year-on-year to 2.112.000 units according to data by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). As it was…
A new generation of Haval H6, the country's #1 SUV, has just launched in China. Preliminary figures released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) show continued momentum for new vehicle wholesales in China in July: up an estimated 14.9% year-on-year to 2.08 million. Commercial Vehicles are expected to…
Great Wall pickup sales soar 272.3% in a market up 64.3%. According to data released by LMC Automotive, sales of Light Commercial Vehicles in China continue to surge in June at +64.3% to 379.661 units, a new record for the month tilting the year-to-date tally into positive at +0.7% to…
11 manufacturers including Chery Automobile have shared Chinese wholesales volumes for the first three weeks of July. According to figures released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), wholesales of new vehicles in China surge by a spectacular 36.5% year-on-year to 942.000 units over the first 20 days of…
On July 17, Dongfeng became the first among China's three centrally-administered automakers - and longest-running pillars of the local industry, the other two being FAW Group and Changan, to launch a dedicated high-end EV brand: Voyah. The fruit of two years of secret development, Voyah, in mandarin Lantu (岚图) meaning…
Audi posts the best performance of any Top 25 carmaker. 29/07 update: Now with Top 285 All New Energy models. Hit first by the coronavirus crisis in February (-78.5%) and March (-40.4%), retail sales of Chinese passenger vehicles (cars, SUVs and MPVs) end the First Half of 2020 at -22.5%…
First appearance in the Chinese charts of the Enovate ME7. 29/07 update: Now with Top 190 All New Energy models. It's a predicted hiccup for the recovery of Chinese retail sales of passenger vehicles (cars, SUVs and MPVs) in June at -6.2% year-on-year to 1.65 million units according to data…
Lexus sales gain 6.9% year-on-year in a market down -37%. On face value, the -37% year-on-year collapse of imported retail sales in China at 90.180 units looks like we are back to pandemic declines, but in fact the year-ago basis was exceptionally high, with June 2019 volumes boosted up 73.3%…
The GAC Aion V has hit the Chinese market. Now that we have analysed Chinese June wholesales, it is time for our monthly review of the new locally-produced launches for the month. For a second month in a row, a whopping 11 new models make their entrance in the monthly…
The new RAV4 (+10.5%) helps Toyota limit its fall to -3.6% over H1. The Covid-19 crisis stifles the Chinese wholesales market down a harsh -16.9% year-on-year over the First Half 2020 to just 10.257.000 units, the lowest H1 volume in 8 years: since the 9.62 million of 2012... However unlike the…
Thanks partly to all-time high record sales of the new Breeze, Honda breaks its all-time wholesales volume record in June. Chinese wholesales confirm their spectacular resurgence in June at +11.6% to 2.3 million units according to data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), an all-time record for…