January 2009 China Car Sales
The world economy exploded in January 2009 and with Jing Ji Wei Ji (Economic Crisis) on the lips of many a Chinese person, how did car sales in the PRC do?
The answer is quite easy – good. Although sales of luxury cars dived, they still remained buoyant when compared to foreign markets. MPV sales are down a great deal as business users where the main buyers of MPV’s, but with business for ’09 not looking great business users put off buying vans this year.
Compact cars and mini car sales remain hot, extremely hot, the Japanese and Koreans seem to be ruling the roost in the compact segment, but the mini car segment is almost exclusively Chinese controlled.
CCT has compiled Januarys sales stats into one Word Document file, you can click here to download it.
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This document was informative on many areas. But as usual the most important and interesting Chinese car was missing from the rolls. That confirmed me even further in my belief that BYD F3 DM does not exist in real life and is only a nifty little piece of vaporware with only a couple of the cars actually manufactured so far to be exclusively used at the exhibition circuit. Real life deliveries may or may not start some time in the future.
Vaporware by Wikipedia:
太监软件或硬件，又作雾件（英文Vaporware），指由开发者超前公布消息，但无论项目延期与否都最终无法发布的软件或硬件产品。该名词暗示过分乐 观，有时甚至欺骗的行为，即，消息公布者明明知道产品开发仍然处于过早阶段，还无法给出完成日期，性能列表甚至项目可行性的陈述。
Ash, thanks.
Fascinating reading, really.