General Motors sales in China last month were up 25.3% over December 2011, the automaker’s second-best January ever there but the 246,654-vehicle tally, including joint ventures, was down 8% year on year. There were three fewer shopping days as a result of the Lunar New Year holiday.
Shanghai GM passenger car sales totaled 124,073 units, SAIC-GM-Wuling sold 119,948 minivehicles and passenger cars while FAW-GM shifted 2,433 light-duty commercial models.
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Buick sales were “up slightly year on year” to 71,056 units, GM said without providing a comparison. Demand for the ‘original’ (Daewoo Lacetti/Nubira-based) Excelle passenger car line – which set an annual sales record for all domestic passenger vehicle models in 2011 and was the top-selling passenger vehicle industry-wide in China in 2011 – was up 1.9% year on year to 28,680 units.
The newer Opel Astra-based Excelle XT hatchback and GT sedan (new Buick Verano in the US) saw growth of 21.1% to 19,787 units.
Chevrolet sales in China totaled 54,399 units, led again by the Cruze sedan, which had sales of 22,711 units, and the Aveo-based New Sail small car family – 18,069 units.
Cadillac sales rose 18.1% year on year to 2,987 units in January headed by the SRX luxury SUV (2,132 units).
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By GlobalDataWuling sales of 106,573 units in China were headed by the Sunshine minivan (47,137 units) which ended 2011 as China’s best-selling vehicle for a ninth consecutive year.
In its first January on sale, the first Baojun brand model, the 630, accounted for 9,006 units.
