Ford Motor Co. announced china sales results for the month and year to date ended December 2016. For the month, the company and its joint ventures sold nearly 150,000 vehicles in China, up 21% over 2015. The growth was driven by strong demand for the company’s expanded lineup of SUVs such as the Ford Edge and Explorer, the Ford Taurus large car, and performance vehicles such as the Ford Mustang. For the year to date, the company sales totaled a best-ever 1.27 million vehicles, 14% higher than 2015.