The annual sales volume of German car producer Audi AG hit a new record in 2014 since it was founded in 1909, the Ingolstadt-based company announced Friday in a statement.
Passenger-vehicle sales rose at a slower pace in China last year as economic growth moderated and more cities imposed purchase restrictions in the world's largest auto market.
Bentley Motors announced that its global deliveries in 2014 grew by 9 percent to 11,020 cars, up from 10,120 cars in 2013 and marked another year of record sales.
Sweden-based automaker Volvo Cars reported record sales in 2014, saying a successful global transformation is behind the figures.
Shanghai Volkswagen became China's first car maker to produce 12 million vehicles after an orange Lamando rolled off its production line on Dec 27.
Chinese auto company Geely expects its net profit in 2014 to roughly halve due to foreign exchange losses from its operations in Russia.
Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor Co's luxury arm Infiniti has vowed to expand its sales network in China aggressively, even though the overall luxury car market has slowed down.
China's auto sales rose 2.3 percent year on year to 2.09 million units in November.
Vehicle sales slowed drastically in China in November, as concerns over the cooling economy and purchase limitations in cities weighed heavily on buyers.
Chinese carmakers produced 10 times as many new energy vehicles last month as they did in November 2013, thanks to intense government-led promotion, according to new data.
Though highly educated with big incomes, Chinese luxury car owners are surprisingly young. The average age of high-end vehicle owners is just 33.5 years.
China has 244 million people licensed to drive cars, the largest number worldwide. 22 percent of Chinese people have driving licenses.
China's auto sales rose 2.8 percent year on year to 1.98 million units in October, data from an industry association showed on Friday.
German car producer Audi AG continues its sales growth in October, delivering worldwide 146,200 cars, a year-on-year increase of 10.8 percent, Audi announced Friday.
Toyota Motor Corp and its two Chinese joint ventures sold about 104,700 vehicles in China in October, up 27.1 percent from a year earlier, the Japanese automaker said on Monday.
Growth in China's auto market, the world's biggest, will halve to 7 percent this year weighed down by a slowing economy, the head of an industry body said on Saturday.
China's auto sales rose 2.5 percent year on year to 1.98 million units in September, data from an industry association showed on Monday.
General Motors is to invest $14 billion in China over the next five years and open five new manufacturing plants to increase sales in the world's largest car market.
General Motors Co expects Cadillac sales in China to increase by 40 percent this year, as the US carmaker prepares to reorganize its luxury brand as a separate unit based in New York.
New energy vehicle (NEV) production in China has more than tripled in the first eight months of this year, boosted by the government support out of environmental concern.
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