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Top three luxury automakers saw sales increase by 25% in China

Ally From www.gasgoo.com| July 16 , 2007 16:17 BJT

The world-leading luxury automakers - Audi, BMW and Mercedes Benz of DaimlerChrysler, all experienced a sales increase of higher than 25% in the Chinese market in the first half year of 2007.

Top three luxury automakers saw sales increase by 25% in China

BMW said it sold 730,285 BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce vehicles in China from January to June, up 4.5% year on year. The automaker sold 28,327 BMW-brand sedans and Mini-brand cars in China including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in the first six months, and 23,667 units of the two brands in China mainland. Of which sales of the BMW brand rose 36 percent to 22,891 units, while Mini-brand increased 13% to 776 units.
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Mercedes Car Group report it sold 575,700 in the first half 2007, and13,500 units in the same period in the Chinese market including Hong Kong, up 28% year on year, of which sales of China mainland increased by 38%. Statistics show in the first half year 5,000 Mercedes-Benz S-series were sold in China mainland, a 50% increase compared with the same period last year, and sales of SUV were 86,500 in the same region, up 13% y-o-y. In addition, 1,100 sport cars of Mercedes brand were sold in the mainland China.

In the first half of this year, China sales of Audi vehicles, both locally made and imported, rose to 48,716 units, up 27 percent y-o-y, while global sales were 509,000 units, up 8.8%. Outside China the brand saw an increase of 13% in America, 9.4% in the European market and 21.6% in the Asia-Pacific region.

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