Gasgoo.com (Shanghai) - A total of 1.88 million passenger automobiles were sold in China in the month of October, 15.4% more than the 1.63 million sold the previous October. Growth was shared by both domestic own brand manufacturers and foreign-Sino joint venture enterprises. Sales of own brand passenger automobiles increased 27.1%. Passenger automobile sales of American and Japanese passenger automobiles increased 14.9% and 9.1%, while those of German and Korean automobiles growing 8.0% and 4.7%.