Articles Tagged with "SUV"

Sales of Great Wall Motor Company Limited (short for GWM), one of leading automakers in China, were reportedly 68,976 units in July this year, increasing by 45.38% year on year, which include 60,002 units of SUVs with a yearly rise of 50.26%. And total sales have been 519,228 units with a year-on-year increase of 12.2% from January to July.

Gasgoo.com (Shanghai) - Compared to the previous two years, sales of Chinese SUVs over the first half of this year have begun to lag behind. A number of models, including the Changan CS75, BAIC Huansu S3, Zotye T600, JAC Refine S3 and Changan CS35, have all seen their monthly sales volumes fall. Only four own brand models managed to make the top ten individual model sales charts in April, compared to a high of eight from the previous year. That number has fallen even further in May and June, when only three of the ten best-selling SUVs in the country were domestic own brand models. Chinese manufacturers’ market share in the SUV segment has also been slipping.

Gasgoo.com (Shanghai) - 2014 and 2015 were important years for the Chinese automobile market and especially for domestic own brand manufacturers in particular. Own brands have been able to overcome difficulties in the sedan segments by shifting their focus towards the SUV and MPV segments, which in turn has allowed them to recover and compete with joint venture manufacturers for market share. Chinese own brands seemed to had finally come into their own stride with the explosion of popularity of Chinese SUV models.