Shanghai (ZXZC)- On Monday, Geely Auto announced that it handed over 1,247,116 vehicles in 2017, soaring 63 percent compared with the previous year and setting another sales record. At the same time, the Hangzhou-based automaker eyes 1.58 million vehicle sales in 2018, jumping 27 percent compared with 2017.

In the last month of 2017, Geely Auto sold 153,625 vehicles, including the sales of Lynk & Co, surging 42 percent year on year. The monthly sales of Lynk & Co reached up to 6,012 units.

According to Geely, the main sales driver was its SUV portfolio, including the Boyue, the Emgrand GS, the Vision SUV and the Vision X3. The delivery of the Boyue in 2017 reached up to 286,885 units and its monthly sales have exceeded 30,000 units for 3 consecutive months.

As Geely’s first crossover SUV, the Emgrand GS’s December delivery was 18,850 units and its annual sales surpassed 150,000 units. The Vision SUV reported a year-on-year growth of 38.8 percent to 14,610 units in December, 2017. The total sales of Vision SUV in 2017 were 127,042 units.

In sedan segment, Geely delivered 25,074 the New Emgrands in December, 2017 and the model’s annual sales of last year totaled 264,432 units, up 9.7 percent year on year. The sales of the all-new Vision, launched in November last year, were 14,524 units in the last month of 2017.

As the first model in A+ class segment, the Geely Emgrand GL broke the December sales record with a total of 14,088 vehicles sold in December, 2017. The annual sales of Emgrand GL increased 39 percent year on year to 124,112 units.