Dongfeng Motor Group Nov sales up 75% to 139,652 units

Shanghai, December 15 (Gasgoo.com) Dongfeng Motor Group Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of Dongfeng Motor Corp, sold 139,652 vehicles in November, up 74.90% from a year earlier, the group said in a statement last week.

November sales of its passenger vehicles (PV) came to 102,491 units, up 70.22% year on year and those of its commercial vehicles (CV) reached 37,161units, up 89.24%.

Dongfeng Motor Group's total sales of vehicles in the first eleven months stood at 1,279,855 units, up 31.73%, with PV sales at 946,674 and CV sales at 333,181, up 43.61% and 6.66%, respectively.

Last month, Dongfeng Motor's joint ventures saw rapid sales growth, with Dongfeng Nissan up 59.65% to 87,790 units, Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen up 148.89% to 27,509 and Dongfeng Honda up 53.22% to 20,891.  Dongfeng Yueda Kia tripled its November sales to 28,067 units.

Dongfeng's newly-launched own-brand sold 3,040 units in November. Own-brand car sales had totaled 14,216 units since the July launch.