SAIC sold 4.5 million vehicles in 2012
- SAIC is a Chinese group which owns mainly Joint-Ventures (JV) branches with Western carmakers (VW ad GM) but develops also its own brands. Vehicles produced by the JV branches may be counted by analysts as SAIC vehicles or as GM and VW vehicles. It is important not to count these vehicles twice.
- SAIC sold 4.5 million vehicles in 2012 (+ 12% versus 2011), of which 350,000 in the month of December (7% versus same month of last year). Last month, Shanghai-VW sold 75,000 vehicles (- 28.7%), Shanghai-GM 111 000 (37.9%), SAIC Roewe MG-25000 (+ 48.7%), SAIC-GM 127000-Wuling (+10.6%).
- Last year, Shanghai-VW and Shanghai-GM , the two main JV branches of SAIC sold 1.28 million and 1.39 million vehicles, respectively.
- SAIC Roewe MG-sold 370,000 vehicles during the same period.
- SAIC-GM-Wulingsold on its side 1.46 million vehicles in 2012 (+ 12%), including 1.35 million minibus and minivan under the brand Wuling and 110,000 cars under the brand Baojun.
Note: Volkswagen vehicles sold by Shanghai-VW totaled 1.05 million units last year (+11%), while sales of Skoda brand vehicles increased 4.5 % to 230 000 units. There is no Audi brand vehicles sold by Shanghai-VW.
Data source: File #55 - Registrations in the World by makes