Doggydogworld
Active Member
The CPCA numbers you show are wholesale. That's supposed to be sales within China plus exports. I don't know if a car counts as exported when it arrives at the dock and paperwork is approved, or if the ship has to actually leave the dock.Are those numbers deliveries or production?
I want to be sure I'm using the right source.
CPCA
January: 59,845
February: 56,515
March: 65,814
April: 10,757
May: 32,165
June: 78,906
July: 28,217
August: 76,965
September: 83,135
Giving totals of:
Q1: 182,174
Q2: 121,828
Q3: 188,317
Thank you!
Wholesale loosely matches production, but not exactly because some cars built at EOQ are not delivered or exported by the stroke of midnight. (And some cars left in that state the prior quarter roll into the current quarter).
Production numbers come out later in the month. They used to come from another agency, CAAM I think, but the numbers I've seen lately come from Gasgoo and/or some guy tweeting (not Moneyball).