CHINA’S auto sales rose 5.7 percent to 2.71 million vehicles in September from a year ago as momentum continued amid rising demand and strong economic growth. In the first nine months of the year, auto sales added 4.5 percent to 20.22 million units, according to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. The sales growth momentum in September continued from August whose sales expanded 5.3 percent. Analysts predicted that sales will further grow steadily till

It’s easy to become blase about China’s auto market, especially now that growth there has gone from white hot to merely off-white hot. Up 15 percent in 2016? Ho-hum. But just stop and marvel for a moment at the volume even a plateauing Chinese market represents — 24 million passenger vehicles last year, according to IHS Markit. Twenty-four million! With numbers like that, it ought to be China — not the U.S., Europe or Japan — that dictates the future of what we call global ve

In a study done by J.D. Power’s Chinese division, recent months have shown that the Chinese have improved both the technology behind their cars as well as the engineering. Improvements have been made to raise their domestically produced automobiles to international standards primarily in the internal systems of the cars; the engine, transmission, ventilation and the heating and cooling. The study looked at 213 car models sold by 65 different car brands while surveying around