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Chinese Auto Sales Overtake U.S. In January

from National Public Radio
February 10, 2009

China has released its monthly auto sales report, and the Chinese bought more cars than Americans did in January. If the numbers stay on trend, this could be the year that China surpasses the U.S. as the world's number one automobile market. Michelle Krebs, with the auto information site Edmunds.com, tells Renee Montagne that analysts had expected this to happen just not this soon.

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