China's vehicle exports continued to decline in July, falling 5.4 percent from June to 79,900, a year-on-year drop of 11.6 percent.
Great Wall Motor Co, China's largest SUV maker, sold 367,857 vehicles in the first half of the year, up 40 percent from the same period last year.
Sales of light vehicles - including passenger and light commercial vehicles - in June continued May's trends, rising 8.5 percent year-on-year to 1.72 million units.
Hyundai Motor Co expects its strong sales growth in China to moderate in the second half of the year, hit by an economic slowdown, tight output capacity and its failure to produce new models.
Vehicle imports slumped 10.7 percent in the first half, to 526,000 units, as the domestic demand slowdown of the past two years drove up inventories of cars.
Jianghuai Automobile Co exported nearly 10,000 vehicles in the first half of this year to the Brazilian market, and has sold about 57,000 vehicles.
Used car sales reached 700,000 units in Beijing, for the first time beating new car sales, according to the China Automobile Dealers Association.
In the first half of 2013, Volkswagen saw a 19.4 percent growth in the sales of its passenger brands, with 1.2 million units sold in the Chinese market.
Automobile sales posted strong growth in the first half of the year, despite the country's lackluster economic performance.
Sales for Mazda China have been in decline since 2011. For the first half of 2013 sales were at 82,531 units, down 20.6 percent compared with the same period last year.
Though Mercedes-Benz has recovered from the sales figures it saw in 2012, the new president and CEO of the China operations, is still not satisfied.
China's passenger vehicle sales maintained stable double-digit growth in the first half, raising industry hopes of improvement in the remainder of the year.
Driven by continued strong demand for the all new Ford Focus, Ford Kuga and Ford Transit, Ford China's sales soared in the first half of 2013.
General Motors said June sales in China rose nearly 11 percent year-on-year to 236,207 units on strong demand for SUVs and premium models.
Retail sales for Dongfeng Nissan in the second quarter of 2013 surpassed prior year results by 1.9 percent. The company showed signs of recovery.
General Motors and Ford Motor posted stronger-than-expected first half sales on Tuesday, while Chrysler Group's results met analysts' high expectations.
May's double-digit growth in auto sales was largely driven by the release of hundreds of new models at Auto Shanghai, the largest domestic event in the industry this year, insiders say.
After unexpectedly strong growth in the first four months of 2013, light vehicle sales in May finally slowed down as we predicted.
China's passenger vehicle sales in May maintained double-digit growth over a year earlier partly due to continued momentum from the Shanghai Auto Show.
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