Hawtai denies media report saying that it manipulated its sales figures

---

Hawtai Motor Sales Company’s deputy managing director Bai Yonghua denied on June 16 the news reports saying that Hawtai is investigated by China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) for reporting false sales.

According to the media report, the registration of Hawtai vehicles in 2010 totaled 15,950 units, compared with its reported 81,435 units; the registration of Hawtai vehicles in the first four months of this year totaled 5,090 units, compared with its reported 35,174 units.

The media report also says that the reported sales results of B11 are even over 30 times higher than the actual sales results, so CAAM removed its sales data and replaced them with zero. Hawtai’s Mr. Bai Yonghua explained that the company’s headquarters just moved from Beijing at the end of May, and the database can’t be read now, but the sales figures reported to CAAM are absolutely true. “ I don’t know why there is such news. It’s definite that the company sold more than 2,000 B11 cars in the first half of the year,” said he.

However, CAAM’s deputy secretary general Zhu Yiping said that they are still investigating into Hawtai’s sales figures, and it’s unknown when the result will come out.