14 April 2016, Hangzhou. Geely Auto announced that the total sales volume of the Group for the month of March 2016 was 49,903 units, an increase of approximately 3% over the same period last year and up approximately 50% from February 2016. Geely’s exports volume was 1,716 units in March 2016, down around 51% from the same period last year. During the month of March 2016, Geely’s total sales volume in China market was 48,187 units, an increase of around 7% from the same period last year. The total sales volume in the first quarter of 2016 was 143,323 units, up about 2% from the same period last year and achieving 24% of the full year sales volume target of 600,000 units in 2016.
The Spokesman of Geely Auto said, “During the month of March 2016, the sales volume of ‘New Emgrand’ was 20,643 units, an increase of about 10% from the same period last year. The aggregate sales volume of ‘GX7’, ‘SX7’ , ‘GX9’ and ‘Geely NL3’, the Group’s Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs), was 4,545 units in the month of March 2016, a decrease of about 28% from the corresponding period last year. The sales volume of ‘Kingkong’ sedan was 7,060 units in the month of March 2016, up about 13% year-on-year. The sales volume of ‘Vision’ sedan was 12,914 units in the month of March 2016, up about 24% year-on-year. ‘Geely GC9’ (吉利博瑞), its B-segment sedan model, achieved a sales volume of 4,339 units in the month of March 2016. Geely Auto officially launched ‘Geely NL3’ (吉利博越), its newest SUV model, towards the end of March 2016 and recorded a sales volume of 1,018 units during the month. So far, the order book for ‘Geely NL3’ has been better than the management’s initial expectations”.