For the first seven months of this year, China-based assemblers sold 6.2 million passenger cars.
He noted that densely packed pedestrian traffic loads can weigh more than those of passenger cars.
Providing new vehicles, especially more compact and fuel efficient passenger cars, has helped with sales too.
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VAZ, which makes more than 90% of the Russian-brand passenger cars, is the most exposed.
Volkswagen is one of the world's largest producers of passenger cars and Europe's largest automaker.
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At Volkswagen, its passenger cars remained the most popular, recording sales of 5.7 million last year.
In April, retail sales of passenger cars slowed to 4.2 percent, the worst result since January 2009.
But, he doubts it makes sense economically to promote the use of natural gas in passenger cars.
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Several companies have already started field-testing battery-electric passenger cars and light trucks for use in their fleets.
Although not as sexy or glamorous as passenger cars, the numbers for heavy-duty trucks are no less impressive.
It hastened the conversion of passenger cars from wood to steel and led to improvements in railroad signaling.
The technology is proven and widely available in engine sizes to power everything from passenger cars to mine-haul trucks.
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General Motors sells 5 million passenger cars worldwide every year, but none of these marques makes money selling cars.
In making his remarks, Dong Yang was referring to total vehicle sales, including both passenger cars and commercial vehicles.
For this reason, the implementation of emissions regulations has lagged passenger cars and is currently at Euro III standards.
While the growing number of passenger cars is cited as an issue, environmental regulations for cars are already strict.
The theory is that this green technology will filter down to passenger cars.
Over the next 40 years the global fleet of passenger cars is expected to quadruple to nearly 3 billion.
Data showed the European Union market for new passenger cars in April expanded for the first time since September 2011.
One of the companies I visited was Kailing, a manufacturer of brake systems for high-end bicycles, motorcycles and passenger cars.
In China Ford recently reported September sales growth of 6% year-over-year in Ford-branded passenger cars led by Ford Mondeo.
Transport equipment, and more specifically, passenger cars and trucks, led the recovery, with production up 36% on a month-over-month basis.
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North America is developing the big pick-up trucks that dominate the local market and Europe will handle mainstream passenger cars.
Now all government departments and state-owned companies wanting to buy passenger cars will have to plump for the patriotic Timor.
Next the tour heads to the neighbourhood of Caballito via the atmospheric A-line subway that still uses the original 1903 train and passenger cars.
Chrysler Group is offering the Hemi as an option for power-hungry drivers who want more oomph in their trucks and passenger cars.
Now you can add passenger cars to the list of counterfeit goods.
Detroit as a whole doesn't make any money selling passenger cars: U.S. drivers buy domestic cars only if coaxed with huge givebacks.
The rising use of aluminum in passenger cars and light trucks comes because of rising fuel-efficiency standards in the U.S., he said.
Bellwether passenger cars were down 4.9%, and commercial vehicles were off 12.3%.
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