{"id":628261,"date":"2026-10-12T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628261\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:10:13","slug":"chinas-peak-season-auto-sales-flop-with-sharpest-monthly-drop-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628261\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s peak-season auto sales flop with sharpest monthly drop of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/automobiles\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Automobiles<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">&#8216;Golden September&#8217; loses luster, underscoring growing reliance on exports<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20261008 beijing dealership\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A BYD dealership in Shanghai: Chinese automakers\u00a0face declining domestic sales, forcing them to rely more heavily on export growth. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>GLORIA LI<\/p>\n<p>October 12, 2026 15:46 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HONG KONG &#8212; China recorded its sharpest drop in monthly passenger car sales so far this year, dashing many carmakers&#8217; hopes for a revival of domestic demand in the traditional peak shopping season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Automobiles &#8216;Golden September&#8217; loses luster, underscoring growing reliance on exports A BYD dealership in Shanghai: Chinese automakers\u00a0face declining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2440,138,4413,38402,219,188940,48299,111,139,69,308328,667,308329,379],"class_list":["post-628261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-auto","tag-business","tag-chinas","tag-drop","tag-economy","tag-flop","tag-monthly","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-peak-season","tag-sales","tag-sharpest","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}