China imported 16,885 Lexus vehicles in Jan-Aug, up 160 percent

Shanghai. November 2 (Gasgoo.com) Japanese made premium car, Lexus has sold 16,885 vehicles in the first eight months this year, outselling every other brand in the imported luxury car segment.
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MeanVulcan - 11/2/2007 9:30:07 AM

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Wow!!!

Tata brand cars increased imports in China during the same period from last year's 3 cars to this years' 9 cars! An AMAZING 200% !!! increase in sales. MUCH BETTER THAN LEXUS.

Unless of course you consider the really meaningful numers. My point. Why sensationalize the numbers. At 16,000 the percentage numbers are not very meaningful in a market of 1.3 billion people. If you were selling 200,000 cars a year (something really worth mentioning) an increase of 6,000 units would barely make a 3% increase. It's sort of childish and senseless to be comparing brands at this early stage of sales in China just for the sake of seing who is first.

Bill - 11/2/2007 12:59:59 PM

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Welcome to Autolies. This titled was engineered to start a flame war. The Lexus fanboys would see it and respond with the usual trash of how Lexus is taking over the world and how German cars are junk etc.

XYZZ - 11/6/2007 6:00:27 AM

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your comparison of sales figures to 1.6 billion chinese population is TOTALLY IRRELEVANT!

do you actually think ALL 1.6 billion are potential car buyers!? LOL!

you probably barely passed h.s. math, and you try to second guess the statisticians who crunch these numbers?

yet another hater, mindlessly trying to diminish lexus accomplishments.

LexusKindaGuy12 - 11/2/2007 1:48:33 PM

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not to be a fan boy and all, but the first sentence says it all.

"Lexus has sold 16,885 vehicles in the first eight months this year, outselling every other brand in the imported luxury car segment."

oher luxury brands? as in benz, bmw, and audi?

yay for lexus

Will_ - 11/2/2007 7:31:24 PM

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It's pretty significant news, but the anti-Lexus crowd will try to diminish the news and make it seem insignificant, such as the first comment and the reply to it.

Homer008 - 11/2/2007 11:53:57 PM

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Congrats to the Lexus, again!

rok_altima - 11/3/2007 7:48:10 AM

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Audi is the biggest luxury brand in China

XYZZ - 11/4/2007 4:48:07 AM

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"Separately, Benz China said the company sold 15,900 units vehicles-- both locally made and the imported cars in the first eight months of the year.

"Benz, BMW and Audi, three leading German premium brands have sold 25,983 imported vehicles in Chinese market."

which means between bmw and audi, only 10,083 vehicles were sold. so audi is DWARFED by lexus.