Race on for rich pickings in China’s booming SUV-Crossover market

CHINA
China’s most trendy motors
Race on for rich pickings in China’s booming SUV-Crossover market
Published: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:19:01 GMT
Tweet

There was mixed news from China’s many intrinsic carmakers.

The whole group may have kept pace with the underlying momentum from the overall market, resulting in a largely unchanged overall car sales share of almost 30 per cent, but some group members performed a great deal better than others.

Again, thanks to the striking success of its SUV-Crossovers, Great Wall took last year’s honours, by emerging as China’s leading carmaker on home soil.

585,000
Great Wall's domestic sales tally in China during the whole of 2013

Great Wall, following a one-third jump in domestic car sales to almost 585,000 units emerged as last year’s leading domestic carmaker.

Following a year in which its home sales grew at almost twice the pace of the overall market helped catapult its domestic car sales share to almost 4 per cent from the 3.5 per cent sales share still held in the previous year.

By any measure, Great Wall’s rapid climb to fame is due to the remarkable success of its SUV-Crossovers...more

MORE LIKE THIS:

Vintage 2013 Chinese car sales year ends with a bang 30 Jan 2014

China’s car market firing again on all cylinders 31 Oct 2013

Big Japanese comeback in China 31 Oct 2013

DATA AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS WITH THIS ARTICLE:

CHINA new CAR sales:

by manufacturer and marque
DECEMBER 2013 v DECEMBER 2012
FULL YEAR 2013 v FULL YEAR 2012

To continue reading this article, please register for a free sample without obligation...

Please note that eagleAID.com is a subscriber-only site, and as such it can only be viewed by subscribers to the newsletter.

585,000 Great Wall's domestic sales tally in China during the whole of 2013

585,000
Great Wall's domestic sales tally in China during the whole of 2013