---
title: "China May Soon Become Cadillac’s Largest Market"
description: "Cadillac's year-to-date sales in China have already passed U.S. sales."
date: "2017-07-09"
modified: "2017-07-09"
authors:
  - name: "Max Goldberg"
    job_title: "Associate Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-goldberg"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/12286/china-may-soon-become-cadillacs-largest-market"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "ATS"
  - "Cadillac"
  - "China"
  - "CT6"
  - "CTS"
  - "xt5"
---

# China May Soon Become Cadillac’s Largest Market

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Cadillac may be an American-based auto manufacturer, but its sales are truly [dominating in the Chinese market](<https://media.cadillac.com/media/us/en/cadillac/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2017/jun/0605-cadillac-sales.html>). According to Cadillac President Johan de Nysschen, Cadillac plans to [make China their largest market](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/7314/cadillac-sales-decline-in-the-us-continue-to-surge-in-china>) within the next three years. However, current trends indicate this may happen within the next few months.

In June, Cadillac sold 12,886 vehicles in China, a 34.9 percent increase over this time last year. The significant uptick hints that Cadillac sales in China are quickly catching up (or passing) US sales. Year-to-date, Cadillac has sold 80,557 vehicles in China, a 75.4 percent increase over their 2016 year-to-date sales figure of 45,818. At this point in time, Cadillac is beating current US sales of 72,073 vehicle, but we can't guarantee this equates to larger year-end China sales.

China has always been a big part of Cadillac's new sales strategies as was made clear when they decided to build the [CT6 plug-in hybrid](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/7485/the-2017-cadillac-ct6-platinum-awd-sets-a-new-benchmark-for-american-luxury>) there. All lot of sales can be credited to the increase in sales of the popular [XT5 crossover](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/4173/cadillacs-crossover-do-over-the-xt5-gets-it-mostly-right>).

## Author
Before working at *The Drive*, Max Goldberg raced the streets of Westchester in an ambulance as a licensed Emergency Medical Technician. He has boundless enthusiasm.

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