Chinese manufacturers sell more vehicles in Germany than German manufacturers sell in China.

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The core factual claim is contradicted by the evidence: Chinese manufacturers sell only a small fraction of the vehicles in Germany that German manufacturers sell in China. German manufacturers sold roughly 4 million vehicles in China in 2025 (VW Group alone: 2.69 million), whereas Chinese brands sold an estimated 150,000–250,000 units in Germany — a discrepancy of more than 10 to 1.

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• No primary source (KBA registration data or official manufacturer annual reports) was directly opened; the German-brand China sales figure (VW Group: 2.6938 million in 2025) comes from the automotive trade press, and German-market Chinese-brand shares from ICCT (2024) and EU-wide figures for 2025–2026.
• The claim appears to extrapolate to Germany a fact that is confirmed only at EU level (EU imports of cars from China exceeded EU exports to China for the first time in 2025).
• The ICCT figure on Chinese brands in Germany (about 3% of new car sales) dates from April 2024; more recent Germany-specific Chinese-brand data was not located within the search limit.
• The Fortune source (German carmakers' Q2 2026 China sales down 30–41%) was published on 2026-07-11, after the session date, and describes a period the MEP could not have known in full.
• Even the most favourable reading (Chinese brands reaching ~6% of the German market of 2,857,591 registrations in 2025) yields under ~200,000 units, far below the 2.69 million VW Group alone sold in China in 2025.

Sources

• SecondaryCarNewsChinaIn the Chinese market, the Volkswagen Group delivered over 2.6938 million vehicles in 2025, down 8% year-on-year, partially contributed by...
• SecondaryICCT (International Council on Clean Transportation)While brands based in China account for only about 3% of all new car sales in Germany, for BEVs their market share is already at 8%
• SecondaryBest Selling Cars BlogIn full year 2025, the German new car market expanded by 1.4% to 2,857,591 new passenger vehicle registrations — the best sales in Germany...
• SecondaryEuronewsCombined, Chinese brands accounted for around 6% of EU car registrations between January and April 2026, compared with 3.2% in the same [period in 2025]
• SecondaryFortuneAt Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Porsche, China sales for the April-June quarter plummeted between 30% and 41% compared with the same [period a year earlier]