Shanghai (ZXZC)- Great Wall Motor (GWM) reported a year-on-year drop of 12.99% in August sales with 64,096 vehicles delivered. For the first eight months, the automaker saw its sales edge down 2.24% to 589,945 units, completing 50.86% of the 1.16 million-unit sales target. 

In August, GWM's SUV sales evidently fell 18.62% year on year to 53,099 units, while jumped 19.67% month on month. From January to August, the year-to-date SUV sales reached 500,429 units, shrinking 4.29% from a year ago. The Haval SUV brand witnessed its August sales rise 15.10% over the previous month to 42,925 units, helping the overall SUV sales attain two-digit month-on-month growth.

Besides, the WEY's monthly sales bounced back from the 7,080 units in July to 10,174 units in August, leaping 41.36% compared with the same period a year ago. The sales of the VV7 and the VV5 reached 4,002 units and 4,622 units, surging 31.99% and 31.76% from a month ago. The sales of the WEY P8 plug-in hybrid SUV were 512 units, a stable performance since the model went on sales in April.

Last month, a total of 1,038 VV6 SUVs were handed over after the premium intelligent SUV model hit the market on August 27 in Beijing. With suggested prices ranging from RMB 148,000 to RMB175,000, the WEY VV6 is expected to be a hotter-selling model in intelligent car sector, featuring such merits as intelligence, security and premium taste.