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Ford Motor's China car venture sold 316,139 units in 2009, up 54.5 percent from a year earlier, its Chinese partner said on Tuesday.
General Motors Co's China vehicle sales in 2009 jumped 66.9 percent from a year earlier, the company said on Monday.
SAIC Motor Co Ltd sold more than 82,000 cars of its Roewe and MG brands between January and November of 2009, up 160 percent over the same period of the previous year. Full-year sales are expected to hit 90,000 units, the company said.
Beijing's largest used-car market is the perfect place to measure the popularity of any make or brand in China's booming motoring market.
Chinese battery and car maker BYD Auto, backed by US billionaire Warren Buffet, said it has raised its 2010 sales target, as it prepares to roll out its first electric cars.
The emerging markets of China, India and Brazil will lead the way in global auto sales in 2010, a report said Tuesday.
Sino-German joint venture FAW-Volkswagen recently announced that full-year sales of its Volkswagen badge will increase at least 35 percent over last year, alone surpassing the combined sales of 513,000 units for both its Volkswagen and Audi brands in 2008.
Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corp, the partner of Daimler AG and Hyundai Motor Corp, plans to invest tens of billions of yuan to accelerate development of its own passenger cars following acquisition of assets and technology from Saab.
Ten years ago, JD Power Asia Pacific fielded its first quality study for passenger vehicles built in China. Across a spectrum of vehicle criteria, the study measured the number of problems reported by Chinese new-vehicle owners in the first two to six months of ownership.
Although it is still struggling with paying back debt in the West, the revived General Motors has started further expansion in the East, under a new cooperation model with its Chinese partner.
At a time when the world auto industry was experiencing huge difficulties caused by the global downturn, Geely's aim, as it said on the company website -- "let Geely cars go to the whole world", seemed very ambition.
Competition in China's rural auto market is fierce and manufacturers know they must build bridges to keep customers -- a task one firm is taking seriously.
