China's monthly passenger-vehicle sales fell the most in more than seven years after an earlier-than-usual Lunar New Year holiday season deprived dealers of a week's worth of sales. Deliveries of passenger automobiles, including multipurpose and SUVs, dropped 24% from a year earlier to 1.16 million units last month, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said today in a statement. Sales were projected to drop 18%, according to the median of a Bloomberg News survey of five analysts who predicted declines ranging from 8.5%to 30%.