Commerce: Autos: Ford, GM have whopper sales in China

"Whopper sales" is hyperbolous, but not relative to Ford China's sales last year, exceeded this year by 46%, MSM's Moneywebsite reports in an unsigned Associated Press article.



Ford China's growth also exceeded China's home-grown automakers' sales which grew by 14%. In turn, however, General Motors and the German Volkswagen outdistanced Ford in total China sales.

Principium Consumers Hub backgrounder:

The criticism of the Communist Chinese on human rights, labour rights, religious rights and real democratic openness must take into account that Ford, GM, and VW are just a few of the Western mega-corporations with subsidiaries and joint ventures involving large Chinese corporations (Ford China is a venture 50-50 with a Chinese corporate co-owner). Not only are such companies manufacturing in China, but their Western investors also export from the USA, Canada, and Germany (for instance) to retail there several models not made in China. Thus, in the case of the Western auto industry's presence on the mainland, companies like Ford are spreading the pollution-driven automobile culture of illness and death, contributing to future soaring health costs due to respiratory ailments thru-out China. They also are driving up the voracious appetite in China for automobility, an automobility that is technoligically-dependent on oil and gas. So, China's "revolutionary" capitalism is based on entrenching a killer technology and a runaway need for oil/gas, which latter puts the mainland Chinese in competition with North-America-originated automakers and all consumers of petroleum products in a desperate fite to buy from all the oil sellers in the world - think Araby, think Venezuela, think Nigeria. Think Iran. Think the price of oil is going to continue to rise.

Now, what are Ford and GM and, for that matter, Volkswagen doing to produce and sell, preach and promote a new kind of car fuelled by other means, sage and non-pullutant alternative means? - Owlb