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 Car sales figures for March, greeted with a huge sigh of
relief from a previously anxious autoindustry, showed that so far this year the world’s biggest car market
has lost little if any heat.
If anything, judged from a robust-looking 14.3 per cent jump in March, buoyed in no small measure by a sudden surge from less than
a handful of intrinsic carmakers, since the start of this year China’s car market has performed excellently.
Sales figures for the first quarter, up nearly 19 per cent, gave rise to predictions that the whole of this year
will also beat most earlier forecasts by a substantial margin.
At a time when carmakers are struggling to keep their heads above water in Europe’s storm tossed
seas, and when Russia’s, Brazil’s and particularly India’s long-trumpeted car sales fortunes are looking
a great deal less miraculous of late, China still stands out as a genuine autoindustry bright spot, promising
to soften the blow of sagging sales elsewhere for yet another year...more
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CHINA
new CAR sales:
CHINA new car sales by manufacturer and marque MAR 2013 v MAR 2012
CHINA new car sales by manufacturer and marque Q1
2013
v Q1
2012
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