Great Wall Sales of 2013 Increases 21%, Sales Goal 2014 shall be 880 Thousand

Great Wall publishes its Dec 2013 production and sales letter on 8 Jan 2014. The company pickup, SUV, passenger car has been sold 7,815, 41,500 and 13,500 respectively. Among them, sales star Harvard H6 is sold 23.9 thousand. As reporter of notice, Harvard H6 sales of Dec have hit the record hit. From Jan to Dec 2013, Great Wall has sold 754 thousand cars totally, which has increased 21% over the sales of last year. Among them, SUV total sales are 417.4 thousand, which has increased 48.47%. Pickup and passenger car accumulated sales are 126.8 thousand and 210 thousand respectively, which have increased -8% and 2% over last year.

What is interesting, when Great Wall publishes its production and sales little, Great Wall news director, who is verified by Sina.com already, posts Great Wall production and sales figure and tables onto Weibo.com. He says “sales goal of 2014 of Great Wall shall be 880 thousand. Working hard, and do best to remain 2 figures growth.”

As reporter known, if Great Wall makes true of 880 thousand sales next year, the company growth of 2014 is only 16.71%, which is slower than 21% growth of 2013, and much slower than 34.31% growth of 2012.

Besides, in production and sales little of Great Wall, reporter does not see any information about high-end SUV Harvard H8 which launched market in Nov 2013. It may because that Great Wall has not delivery to customer officially. At the end of 2012, part buyers of H8 wrote a letter onto Great Wall Harvard BBS <50 Harvard H8 Owners Announcement to Manager WEI of Great Wall>. The letter says that their wait too long for H8. Some buyers even have not try H8. They hope that Great Wall publish a schedule of exactlydelivery time.

Great Wall SINA Weibo.com ID posts a tweet that “Attention on H8 partly is attention on local brand ability to break out ceiling. Great Wall is kind of under pressure, and very careful and seriously to do it better and try perfect. Therefore, we do delivery our product late. Very sorry, and deeply apologize. Text-drive is initialed already. Hopefully great rainbow after rain.”