China car sales notch up January record Shanghai Daily, 160208. Car sales soared to a monthly high in January, with Chinese car makers selling 639,000 passenger vehicles, up 32 percent from the same period in 2007 and 6.7 percent up from December, according to the China Passenger Car Association. January sales exceeded those in the previous month for the first time in recent years. Sedans accounted for three-quarters of the January figure, while sport utility vehicles sales jumped 60.5 percent year on year to 32,000 units, nearly twice as fast as the industry average.
