Gasgoo.com (Shanghai May 16) - A total of 89,900 automobiles were imported by China in April, tireworld.com.cn reported today. The figure, which came from statistics announced by the Beijing Asian Games Village Automobile Exchange Market at its latest press conference, represents year-on-year growth of 2.1 percent. Passenger automobiles made up 88,900 of those sales, representing year-on-year growth of 3.33 percent.
SUVs constituted 57.7 percent of all vehicles imported in April. A total of 51,300 SUVs were imported, compared to 34,300 sedans and 3,200 minivans.
Chinese automobile imports since the beginning of the year totaled 319,000 vehicles, with 314,700 of those being passenger automobiles. Year-on-year sales growth rates for import SUVs over the four month period reached 11.7 percent for the four month period.
