HONG KONG, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Chinese car and battery maker BYD Co <1211.HK>, backed by U.S. billionaire investor Warren Buffett, said its August vehicle sales fell 19 percent on year and were down 5.9 percent from July on keen competition amid slowing growth in the world's largest auto market.
BYD, which is 10 percent owned by Buffett's Berkshire
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The eight-month sales represented about 59 percent of its revised target of 600,000 units for the whole of 2010. (Reporting by Alison Leung; Editing by Chris Lewis)