Quiet American.
By Mark Andrews
South China Morning Post.
09/01/2010
One division that wasn’t on the table in General Motors’ recent fire sale was GM China. It’s one of the company’s few profitable units and, with sales rising, it’s not difficult to understand why. In the first 10 months of last year, sales were up by 46.5 per cent and have already exceeded 1.5 million units.
With the old LaCrosse, Buick chose to design in Shanghai a car for the Chinese and Taiwanese markets based on the American LaCrosse. This proved a shrewd move, with 2008 sales of 52,719 in China compared with 36,873 in the US market. So when it came to replacing the car with a single version, GM decided to design the interior at Shanghai’s Pan Asia Technical Automotive Centre and the exterior in the US with consultation from its Chinese colleagues.
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