More hatchbacks to come out this year

By Shangguan Zhoudong (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2006-11-30 08:45

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The Bora hatchback from FAW Volkswagen Automotive Co Ltd and the Elantra hatchback will hit market at the end of this year.

The hatchback versions of the Dongfeng Yueda Kia Cerato, the FAW-Hainan Automobile Corp Ltd Family and the Dongfeng Honda Automobile Company Ltd Civic will hit the market in 2007.

China had 29 hatchback brands with sales reaching 631,879 units in 2005, an increase of 33.6 percent year on year, up from ten brands and 102,895 sales in 2001.

In the first nine months of this year, China sold 577,848 hatchback cars, up 24.5 percent from the same period last year.

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The full text is available in the November Issue ofAutoChina.

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