NEW YORK CITY: General Motors, the top US automaker, said on Tuesday that it had sold 2.4 million vehicles globally in the first quarter, up 2.0 percent year-on-year as China sales boomed.

“The momentum our brands are building in China, the US and Western Europe more than offset difficult conditions in some other large markets like Russia and Brazil,” said chief executive Mary Barra in a statement.

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