Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle and other VW models here in the US may be down (see Beetle Bomb, here), but Volkswagen says that its sales of its various brands in China rose 11 percent in August as compared to the previous August. This outperformed the industry as a whole, where overall sales of passenger cars and light trucks in China rose by 9 percent.
For the first eight months of the year, VW’s sales in China rose nearly 17 percent to 2.4 million units. But VW is far from the only brand enjoying dramatic growth (and growing pains) in China. China is no longer an emerging market. It is an exploding market.
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