Chinese vehicle sales still rising in May led by Jetour and Chery

Picture: Jetour With parent company Chery’s Tiggo 4 continuing its reign as the maker of the best-selling Chinese vehicle in May, Jetour kept its standing in tact as the biggest climber thanks to new record sales of the T2. In a month which saw new vehicle sales again breach 50 000 sales, the T2 amassed an offset of 1 090 units, its highest since April’s 1 003. Up front, the Tiggo 4, a combination of the older Tiggo 4 Pro and its facelift Tiggo Cross sibling, created its own history by moving 2 059 units, a substantial uptake from April’s 1 871.

This placed it second behind the Volkswagen Polo Vivo as the country’s best-selling passenger vehicle and best performing non-locally assembled product. Chery’s arch rival, Great Wall Motors (GWM), keeps the accolade of best-performing Chinese brand with total sales of 2 605 versus 2 569. This mostly thanks to the Haval Jolion, which placed between the Tiggo 4 and T2 with sales last month of 1 345 units.

Behind the T2, the Omoda C5 stayed steady as the Republic’s fourth best-selling Chinese product on 858, followed the GWM P-Series on 689 and the Jetour T1 with 448. Ranking seventh, the GWM Haval H6 obtained 374 unit sales and the eighth place Chery Tiggo 7 a total of 333. Completing the top 10, the Jetour Dashing recorded 293 sales, while the JAC T-Series makes its first appearance with an offset of 261. Aside from GWM and Chery, the rest of China’s brands reporting figures to the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa) were as follows: