世界商业报道[biz.icxo.com]消息：丰田汽车公司和福特汽车公司表示，今年上半年在中国的汽车销量增长强劲，两家公司都在争相推出新车型以吸引消费者。 丰田汽车上半年在华销量总计212,000辆，较上年同期增长77%，受对其凯美瑞轿车的需求提振。上半年，福特在中国全资拥有的汽车品牌的总销量增长25%，至93,206辆，上年同期为74,395辆。
Toyota and Ford, two of the world’s three largest auto makers, reported strong first-half sales in China’s fast-growing market, where as relative newcomers they are competing to roll out new models to attract customers.
Toyota Motor Corp. sold 212,000 vehicles during the period, up 77 percent from a year earlier, powered by brisk demand for its Camry sedans, the best-selling car in the United States in eight of the past nine years.
Toyota, the world’s biggest car maker, rolled out its first China-made Camry in May 2006 from a new plant in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, to wrest customers away from competing models such as Honda Motor’s Accord.
Sales of the Camry came to nearly 78,000 units, well on track to hit the full-year target of 150,000, or more than one-third of Toyota’s total China sales goal of 430,000 vehicles in 2007.
Ford Motor Co. said retail sales of its wholly owned brands in China rose 25 percent during the first half to 93,206 vehicles.
Sales of the mid-sized Focus sedan, made by a joint venture between Ford, Mazda Motor Corp and Changan Automobile Co. Ltd., came to 55,676 units, up 66 percent from a year ago, it said in a statement.
Demand for luxury models was also strong in China, as its growing ranks of nouveau riche snapped up the latest premium models.
Toyota sold 12,000 Lexus cars in the half-year, nearly matching the 13,000 sold in all of 2006 and well on track to meet its full-year 2007 target of 22,000.
