Shanghai (ZXZC)- Nissan saw its China sales fell 5.5% year on year (YoY) to 142,078 units (including PVs, light CVs and imported vehicles) in October, according the sales data release by Nissan Group of China. The sales of the PV unit declined 6.9% over a year ago to 118,006 units, among which 107,001 units from Dongfeng Nissan and 11,005 units from Dongfeng Venucia.

For the first ten months, the Japanese automaker's sales in China totaled 1,237,656 units, up by 5.8% from the previous year. Its PV unit made a major contribution to the overall performance with the sales aggregating 1,032,676 units. To be specific, Dongfeng Nissan and Dongfeng Venucia saw their Jan-Oct sales grew 6.5% and 4.9% YoY respectively to 921,309 units and 111,367 units.

As to the performance of each model under Dongfeng Nissan, the Sylphy sedan, with 40,059 units delivered in October and 354,565 units sold (up by 8.3% YoY) from January to October, was the biggest growth point for the automaker. The year-to-date (YTD) sales of the Teana climbed 5.9% from the year-ago period to 94,454 units.

Besides, the sales of the Blue Bird and the TIIDA reached 37,390 units and 51,878 units respectively during the past ten months.

Dongfeng Nissan has a total of 43,777 SUVs sold in October. The SUV sales driver was the X-TRAIL whose sales reached 18,947 units last month and evidently grew 13.1% from a year earlier to 164,879 units so far this year. The sales of the Qashqai and the Murano witnessed their YTD sales rose 3.9% and 22.3% YoY to 134,468 units and 23,258 units.

The Venucia D60, with 5,506 units sold in October, was the hottest seller for Dongfeng Venucia.