Great Wall Motor’s 2019 full-year sales edge up 0.69%

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- Great Wall Motor (GWM) saw its full-year sales in 2019 edge up 0.69% year on year to 1,060,298 units, surpassing 1 million units for the fourth year in a row.

With 769,454 new vehicles sold, Haval was once again crowned the champion SUV brand in China by annual sales. As of December, the brand has sold nearly 5.8 million vehicles worldwide.

The sales volume of the well-received Haval H6 totaled 386,405 units (-14.62%) in 2019, of which 41,706 units (-17.09%) were sold in December.

In spite of the general decrease in “H” series models, the young “F” family delivered a robust performance which helped Haval eventually achieve growth over a year ago. Notably, the annual sales volume of the Haval F7 skyrocketed up to 722.78%. Besides, the 62.71% surge made by the Haval M6 was one of factors that boosted the whole sales.

WEY witnessed its 2019 sales edged down 3.98% due to the plunge in sales of the VV5, the VV7 and the P8. Nonetheless, the VV6's full-year sales zoomed up 212.70%, which substantially offset the downturn caused by the other three models. In October 2019, the three-year-old brand has its 300,000th complete vehicle roll off the production line at GWM's Xushui plant, and became the first indigenous upscale auto brand in this country whose deliveries exceeded 300,000 units.

The BEV-focused ORA was another driver to GWM's annual increase. Despite the sharp decline in December, the ORA iQ's full-year sales still surged 194.94% from the year-ago period. The ORA R1, with 28,498 units sold through 2019, is a fresh power in China's NEV market.

GWM sold a total of 148,830 pickups last year, a year-on-year growth of 7.85%. The company said it has maintained its championship in China by both pickup domestic sales and exports for 22 consecutive years, and there have been over 1.6 million GWM's pickups running on roads worldwide.

In August 2019, the automaker's new P Series Pickup was formally launched, ushering in the era of Chinese passenger pickup and globalization. By the end of December, the sales of the P series aggregated 18,299 units (photo source: GWM's WeChat account).