- Premium brands have made great progress in the Chinese market in 2013. They recorded increases of between 11% and 67% on an overall market growth of 15.7% last year.

- Audi remains the leading Premium brands in China, with a record volume of 491 989 vehicles in 2013 (+21.2% compared to 2012), including 419 003 units produced on site. BMW has sold 390 713 vehicles in 2013 (+19.7%) with 214 978 products on site. It should be noted that out of this total 28 613 sales were generated by the Mini brand. Mercedes has sold 228 000 vehicles in 2013 (+11%), with 129 982 produced locally. Porsche has sold 37 425 vehicles in China last year (19.9%), all of which were imported from Germany. German premium brands represent 88% of the Chinese Premium market.

- The largest increases were recorded in non-German Premium brands: Volvo saw its sales increase by 45.6% in 2013, to 61 146 units, Infiniti has seen its sales rise by  54% (17 108 units) and Cadillac by 66.6% (50 000 units). Including Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Maserati and Lamborghini, this is a volume close to 1.3 million Premium vehicles that were sold in the Chinese market last year (7.5% of the global Chinese market) . This market has become in a few years one of the world's top three Premium markets, with Europe (2.5 million units representing 20% of the global market) and the United States (1.9 million units representing 12.5% of the global market).