The small car segment is where the action appears to be at in China, with the price of gasoline recently adjusted to reflect global price fluctuations, the small car market has heated up. Another reason for the rise of small car sales, could be due to the number of Beijing car owners buying a second car with an odd or even number license plate to get around the recent driving restrictions imposed on Beijing for the Olympic games.
The Chevrolet Aveo comes out on top, but sales are down on June, but the Honda City sees its sales practically double in one month. The Chery QQ is down 50%, the VW Polo is down slightly. The new Toyota Yaris was recently introduced into China, and seems to be doing reasonbly well, the previous gernation Yaris did not fair so well in terms of sales.
Oddly, the Citroen C2 does not appear to be performing as well as its brother, the 206. This market segment appears to be evenly spread among domestic, and foreign marques, which is not like any other automotive segment.
What i don’t understand why the Chinese buyer would rather buy a cheep rip off of the Deawoo martiz ( which is one of the worst korean cars ) rather that a company who proud of it history and makes great quality products . I think that the 2cv and DS should be made and sold in Asia . Then Asian people would respect Citreon alot more ! Citreon should have the same sales as in Europe , not these silly sales that are not even in there 1,000s .