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Chery car sales to hit 1 million

Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Monday, January 8, 2007 at 6:25 PM

Reuters reports:

China Chery sales to hit 1 million by 2010: media

DaimlerChrysler AG's partner in China, Chery Automobile Co., said its annual sales would rise to a million automobiles by 2010 from just over 305,000 last year, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.

"In 2007, Chery will produce its one millionth automobile and will reach annual sales of 1 million autos by 2010," Yin Tongyao, Chery's chief executive was quoted by Xinhua as saying.

The company's car sales climbed 61 percent to 305,236 in 2006, following a 118 percent sales jump in 2005, Xinhua had said earlier.

...Late last year, the company, based in Anhui province, signed a deal with DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler Group to build small cars under the Chrysler brand for export to global markets.

Chery's exports rose 178 percent to 50,000 cars last year.

In October, Chery signed a memorandum of understanding with Italy's Fiat Auto to supply the Italian maker with 100,000 gasoline engines for cars produced both in China and abroad.

The article does not mention anything about Chery's dodgy intellectual property record. For more about this fascinating Chinese auto maker, see this Peter Hessler story on the New Yorker's website: Car Town — an upstart auto maker targets the American market.

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There are currently 3 Comments for Chery car sales to hit 1 million.

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GM (although not well liked at home anymore) is still king of the road in foreign countries(especially China)...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070108/ap_on_bi_ge/china_general_motors

Posted by: FRITZ | January 8, 2007 7:30 PM

Amazing, isn't it? A car manufacturer that went from selling only 2000 cars only 5 or 6 years ago has gone up to a million already.

Posted by: ash | January 8, 2007 10:11 PM

I take anything good I ever said about Chery back, they don't seem to want to answer the phone to me this morning.

Posted by: Anon | January 9, 2007 12:58 PM
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