As BYD and SAIC push toward half-a-million monthly sales, foreign legacy outposts like Dongfeng Honda and VW Anhui have been squeezed into statistical irrelevance.
The sheer scale of October’s automotive tally in China is staggering, but the real story lies not in the startup headlines, but in the brutal redistribution of mass volume.
Behind the top two titans, China’s traditional domestic conglomerates demonstrated unyielding muscle across all price tiers.
The casualties of this domestic sweep are starkly evident in the joint-venture columns.
As BYD and SAIC push toward half-a-million monthly sales, foreign legacy outposts like Dongfeng Honda and VW Anhui have been squeezed into statistical irrelevance.