GM has 12 joint ventures, two wholly owned foreign enterprises and more than 35,000 employees in China.
General Motors and its joint ventures sold 199,503 vehicles in China, in July, a 15.1% increase from last year’s previous record high for the month. SAIC-GM-Wuling’s sales reached 98,694 units, an all-time high for July and an increase of 26.6% year on year. Shanghai GM’s sales in China rose 5.7% on an annual basis to a July record 97,064 units. FAW-GM’s sales were up 3.1% to 3,379 units.
For the first seven months of 2012, sales by GM and its joint ventures in China were up 11.7% on an annual basis to 1,616,550 units. This beats last year’s record for the CYTD period. Shanghai GM’s domestic sales grew 6.5% to 736,613 units. SAIC-GM-Wuling had domestic sales growth of 17.4% to 844,121 units. FAW-GM’s domestic sales were down 2.9% to 32,551 units.
Buick Excelle continues to set records in spite of its age.
Buick sales grew 4.8% year-over-year to a new July high of 52,691 units. (Buick sold 14,391 vehicles in the U.S. during the same month.) In China, July sales of the original Excelle family valium online with no prescription (Daewoo Lacetti – out of production elsewhere) increased 18.2% to 21,727 units, followed by sales of the Excelle XT (Opel Astra) and GT (Verano), which increased 27.6% to 13,112 units. Both were records for the month.
July Chevrolet sales in China dropped 2.8% year on year to 44,864 units. (138,942 in the U.S.) However, sales of the New Sail rose 30.1% on an annual basis to a July record 16,464 units, while Cruze sales increased 5.5% to 17,268 units, which was also a record for July. Cruze in the U.S. sold 14,954.
Cadillac sales in July totaled 2,017 units, led by sales of the heavily taxed SRX luxury utility vehicle of 1,508 units. In the U.S. Cadillac sold 13,417 vehicles, including 4,911 SRXs.
Wuling sales in China were up 32.7% on an annual basis to a July record 94,178 units. The Baojun 630 sedan had sales of 2,008 units in its first July in the market.
GM has 12 joint ventures, two wholly owned foreign enterprises and more than 35,000 employees in China. In 2011, GM sold more than 2.5 million vehicles in China, making it the sales leader among global automakers in China for seven consecutive years.
