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China outpaces US in monthly auto sales
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-02-10 19:28 SHANGHAI, China -- China overtook the US in monthly vehicle sales in January for the first time, figures from China's auto industry association showed Tuesday, largely because of a plunge in American car sales.
If China can outpace the United States in sales for all of 2009, it will become the world's largest vehicle market.
China zoomed past Japan to become the world's second-biggest auto market in 2006. With 1.3 billion people, China's climb to the top position is viewed by most in the industry as inevitable. Plunging US sales appear have accelerated its ascent. While car sales have slowed in China amid the economic downturn, US sales tumbled 37 percent in January to a 26-year low. In China, vehicle sales fell 14.4 percent from a monthly record 860,000 in January 2008, the Chinese industry group's statistics show. January sales were 0.8 percent below those in December, and below the 790,000 some analysts had anticipated. Last week, Mike DiGiovanni, General Motors Corp.'s executive director of global market and industry analysis, projected that Chinese auto sales could hit 10.7 million vehicles in 2009, more than his estimate of 9.8 million unit sales in the US this year. Autodata Corp. forecasts 2009 US sales at 9.57 million. |
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