Gasgoo.com (Shanghai) - According to China Passenger Car Association statistics compiled by Gasgoo.com (Chinese), SAIC Motor continues to be China’s largest passenger automobile manufacturer in terms of new car sales made over the first quarter of the year. Aside from SAIC leading the charts, Changan Automobile’s performance was also impressive, while both GAC Group and Brilliance Automobile posted high year-on-year sales growth rates.
Apr. 26 , 2016Gasgoo.com (Shanghai) - According to China Passenger Car Association statistics compiled by Gasgoo.com (Chinese), the top ten Chinese passenger automobile manufacturing enterprises sold a total of 1.21 million new automobiles in February, accounting for 92.2% of all vehicles sold in the country over the course of the month. The top six of them, SAIC Group, Dongfeng Motor, Changan Automobile, FAW Group, BAIC Group and GAC Group, accounted for 80.3% of all new car sales in February.
Apr. 22 , 2016Gasgoo.com (Shanghai) - According to statistics compiled by Gasgoo.com (Chinese), Chinese SUV sales totaled 798,533 units in January, up 63.9% year-on-year. The SUV segment continued to the major driver for passenger automobile sales growth, accounting for 36.7% of all passenger automobiles sold in the country in the month, up 11.6 percentage points from last year.
Apr. 19 , 2016Gasgoo.com (Shanghai) - While the SUV market in China experienced rapid growth in 2015, sedan sales in the country fell over the course of the year. That said, sedan sales still account for a majority of all passenger automobile sales made in the country. According to statistics compiled by Gasgoo.com (Chinese), 58.0% of all passenger automobile sales were of sedans. The midsize sedan segment remains one of the key segments in the sedan market, accounting for 18.7% of all sedan sales completed over the course of the year, and is one of the strongest areas of competitions between various brands. Midsize sedan sales in 2015 totaled 2.19 million units, down 1.2% year-on-year.
Feb. 23 , 2016Gasgoo.com (Shanghai) - The SUV market continues to be dominated by compact SUV sales. According to statistics from Gasgoo.com (Chinese), a total of 3.52 million compact SUVs were sold in 2015, representing year-on-year growth of 36.0%. However, that year-on-year growth rate is far less than the average SUV market growth rate of 52.7%. Compact SUVs account for 56.1% of all SUVs sold in China in 2015, down 6.9 percentage points from the previous year.
Feb. 19 , 2016Gasgoo.com (Shanghai) - Small SUVs that combine the characteristics of sedans and compact SUVs have been growing in popularity in the Chinese passenger automobile. According to statistics from Gasgoo.com (Chinese), small SUVs accounted for 27.8% of all SUVs sold in the country in 2015, totaling 1.75 million units. That figure is over double from 2014, far above the average year-on-year growth rate for the overall SUV market.
Feb. 15 , 2016