General Motors said on Thursday strong demand helped push its 2007 sales in China to 1.03m vehicles, up 19% from the previous year.
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Shanghai General Motors, GM’s joint venture with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., sold 479,427 vehicles last year, up 17% from a year earlier, the company said, according to the Associated Press (AP).
SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile, the company’s mini-vehicle joint venture, saw sales climb 20% to 548,945 units, the report added.
“Despite growing competition across the board, demand remained robust for our established products such as the Buick Excelle and LaCrosse and the Chevrolet Lova,” Kevin Wale, GM’s China Group president, said a statement cited by the news agency.
GM’s China sales in 2006 rose 32% to 876,747 units.
Vehicle sales grew 25% last year in China to 7.2m units, making it the world’s second-largest auto market, AP said.
Buick was GM’s most popular brand in China, with domestic sales of 332,115 units in 2007, while sales of Chevrolets rose 21% to 172,182 units and Cadillac soared 148% to 7,022 units, the Associated Press said.
