{"id":575789,"date":"2010-05-22T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/05\/22\/suv-boom-underway-in-china\/"},"modified":"2010-05-22T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T23:37:00","slug":"suv-boom-underway-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575789","title":{"rendered":"SUV boom underway in China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/carbuying\/\" rel=\"tag\">Car Buying<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/suvs\/\" rel=\"tag\">SUV<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/crossovers-cuvs\/\" rel=\"tag\">Crossover<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cn.autoblog.com\/photos\/shanghai-2009-hover-m3\/1504164\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"473\" border=\"1\" align=\"top\" alt=\"Great Wall Hover H3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/04\/great-wall-hover-m3-live.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><strong><em><strong><small>Great Wall Hover H3 &#8211; Click above for a high-res image gallery <\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\nEven though it&#8217;s already the biggest, China&#8217;s auto market is still very new, and sales continue to rise by leaps and bounds every year. For years, a mix of small, affordable vehicles and larger luxury sedans have been dominant, but the latest sales data indicates that utility vehicles may be taking over. <\/p>\n<p>2010 SUV sales are up 108 percent versus the same period in 2009, with 372,527 units sold. April was a banner month for the big and tall set, with 105,585 SUVs and crossovers making their way to customers. The big winner was the <a href=\"http:\/\/cn.autoblog.com\/photos\/shanghai-2009-hover-m3\/1504164\/\">Great Wall Hover<\/a>, with 13,000 sales. Asian marques round out the the crossover-laden top five, led by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/cr-v\">Honda CR-V<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/rav4\">Toyota RAV4<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zotye.com\/en\/RX6400.asp\">Zotye RX6400<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/highlander\">Toyota Highlander<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>With sales in China routinely growing from 10 to 20 percent annually, we think a big part of the SUV and crossover growth is organic. That SUV sales have doubled so quickly shows that Chinese consumers&#8217; vehicle tastes may be more in line with American buyers, rather than the wagon and hatch-loving Europeans.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/autonews.gasgoo.com\/auto-news\/1015250\/China-Jan-Apr-SUV-sales-soar-118-to-373-527-units.html\">Gasgoo<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/05\/22\/suv-boom-underway-in-china\/\">SUV boom underway in China?<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Sat, 22 May 2010 18:37:00 EST.  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For years, a mix of small, affordable vehicles and larger luxury sedans have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}