2010 - Sales Figures

Windy wrote:SAIC Motor - April Sales 2010

The Roewe 550 has taken a couple of steps up the ranking table,
The MG 6 has taken 29 steps up the ranking table,
The MG 3SW has taken 32 steps down the ranking table,
The Roewe 750 is static,
The MG 7 drops 2 places,

But the big news - The Roewe 350 is straight in as third best seller for SAIC Motor behind the Roewe 550 and MG 6. A bit of a supprise as it wasn't officially launched until the Beijing Show which only started on the 23rd of the month!

All of which pushes SAIC Motor 2 steps up the ranks to 19th, just ahead of Dongfeng Honda.

Car	Sales	Rank
Roewe 550	8513	24
MG 6	2123	102
Roewe 350	953	126
Roewe 750	797	128
MG 3SW	436	137
MG 7	185	149
SAIC Motor Total	13,007	19

patpending wrote:Just out of interest, if SAIC Motor is 19th in China, all the other bits of SAIC together must be pretty high...

patpending wrote:Thanks Windy, so through their JVs SAIC are no.1 and no.3 also!

How come there are two kinds of Volkswagen? Did VW start with the Santana and then go it alone?

Windy wrote:
一汽大众 - One Steam People
上海大众 - Shanghai People

patpending wrote:

Windy wrote:
一汽大众 - One Steam People
上海大众 - Shanghai People

Hmm, I recall "One Steam, South Steam, Above Steam, four" to the tune of the Banana Splits,

In there I spotted a One, a Steam and a Shang. Must remember "people".

Is "Mitsubishi" ever translated into Chinese or is it phonetic? Does it mention "three diamonds"? (there again, "three diamonds" in Chinese could well be "Mitsubishi" ) (certainly looks similar, "my san" 三钻石三菱)

Origins of the Famous Emblem

The name "Mitsubishi" refers to the three-diamond emblem. "Mitsubishi" is a combination of the words mitsu and hishi. Mitsu means three.

Hishi means water chestnut, and Japanese have used the word for a long time to denote a rhombus or diamond shape. Japanese often bend the "h" sound to a "b" sound when it occurs in the middle of a word. So they pronounce the combination of mitsu and hishi as mitsubishi.

Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of the old Mitsubishi organization, chose the three-diamond mark as the emblem for his company. The mark is suggestive of the three-leaf crest of the Tosa Clan, Yataro's first employer, and also of the three stacked rhombuses of the Iwasaki family crest.

Roewe 350 Production

The first 10,000 Roewe 350 recently at the Pukou base is completed, thus Pukou base monthly over 6000, entered mass production stage.

Roewe 350 in March this year, the beginning off the assembly line, monthly output is only 300, after an interval of 3 months after the upgrade to the current 5,000 units, and is to a higher goal. It is reported that in June 6500 is the Pukou production base plan, which yield 5400 Roewe 350, July, Roewe 350 production target will break through 7,000 mark for the first time, reaching a record 7300, the company will break through 8,000 monthly. According to another sales company said the listing of Roewe 350 in the first month recieved the 10,000 orders, the market is in short supply in the state.

It is understood that earlier this year, Nanjing Auto Pukou base plan Roewe 350 production located in the 50,000 this year, the current production base has started two shifts of production.

Windy wrote:Sales are down a little in July but SAIC Motor still gains one place into 16th.

patpending wrote:

Windy wrote:Sales are down a little in July but SAIC Motor still gains one place into 16th.

so total sales are down more?

patpending wrote:

Windy wrote:Sales are down a little in July but SAIC Motor still gains one place into 16th.

so total sales are down more?

patpending wrote:So the GM JV has done well, but VW is only in the Top 20 twice instead of three times!

patpending wrote:Of course sales are up on last month ignoring last month - that's like EBITDA (pre-cost profit)

Windy wrote:It means that the trend is still up , at least until we get another dot on the graph!

patpending wrote:

Windy wrote:It means that the trend is still up , at least until we get another dot on the graph!

we must be re-assessing the trend in the light of that dot...

Windy wrote:

patpending wrote:

Windy wrote:It means that the trend is still up , at least until we get another dot on the graph!

we must be re-assessing the trend in the light of that dot...

Well the long term trend is still up

But they do now seem to be on target to miss the annual sales target of 180,000, especially if the MG3 doesn't appear until Guangzhou!

The worrying thing is loosing the ranking positions but maybe that just indicates that they are selling to a different/more specialised set of customers.

patpending wrote:...I note the MG6 may not be on sale in the UK until March...

ZTsteve wrote:

patpending wrote:...I note the MG6 may not be on sale in the UK until March...

That's bad news! Did they say why?

Just been told that official launch should be around mid March