Automaker Volkswagen AG said Thursday it is
on track to sell more than one million cars in China this year,
after it set a sales record in 2007.
The Wolfsburg-based company, Europe's biggest car maker by sales,
said it sold 910,491 VW, Audi and Skoda brands in China last year,
up 28 per cent from 2006 when it sold 711,360.
The results left the company as the top maker of passenger cars
in the country, outselling its U.S. rival General Motors Corp. by
431,064 passenger cars last year, compared with 298,507 in 2006.
General Motors Corp., through its passenger car joint venture,
Shanghai General Motors Corp., sold 479,427 vehicles in China in
2007, up 16.9 per cent.
Volkswagen said its sales figures brought its total share of the
market in China, including Hong Kong, to 18 per cent.
The results, coupled with restructuring measures to cut costs,
``gives us the confidence that we will break the one million mark
with our sales in 2008,'' Winfried Vahland, chief executive of
Volkswagen Group China.
Volkswagen has two joint ventures in China _ one with the
state-owned China FAW Group, or FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co., and
one with SAIC Motor Corp., or Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co.
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