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Auto expats: 10 bestselling U.S. cars overseas
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General Motors is the largest automaker in the world, and not just because we buy its products here in the U.S. These are the American cars that sell well abroad.
China
Top-Selling American Car: Buick Excelle
Popularity: Number one seller
GM sells more Buick Excelles in China each year—a quarter-million of them—than all Buicks combined in the U.S. The Excelle comes in several models, the most popular built by GMDAT (GM Daewoo Auto and Technology, a company GM owns in South Korea). The compact sedan powered by a 1.6-liter four-cylinder is also known as the Daewoo Lacetti and was called the Chevrolet Optra when it sold in Canada until 2008. These days an Excelle runs the equivalent of about $21,000.
Brazil
Top-Selling American Car: Chevrolet Celta
Popularity: Number one seller
Built in a state-of-the-art factory in Brazil, the Celta is also known as the Suzuki Fun and powered by a puny 1.0-liter, 77-hp engine. It has also sold online for a non-negotiable price of about $12,500.
India
Top-Selling American Car: Ford Figo
Popularity: Number three seller
This two-year-old hatchback subcompact's design came from Ford of Australia. It's offered with a 1.2-liter gasoline engine or a 1.4-liter diesel. The car is less than 150 inches long and rides on a 98-inch wheelbase, though somehow it carries five passengers.
Russia
Top-Selling American Car: Ford Focus
Popularity: Number five seller
No surprise that the popular Focus world car is the favored American here, outsold only by three Russian-built Ladas and a new locally-built Hyundai sedan. But it's noteworthy that GM has redesigned the tractor-tough Lada Niva unibody SUV, with new styling by Bertone in Italy and in partnership with the carmaker AvtoVAZ, to sell what is now called the Chevrolet Niva, which is the tenth-best selling car in Russia.
