After celebrating the Mustang's standing as the world's best-selling sports car for the third straight year, Ford is also touting the iconic model's ranking as the top-selling coupe in China for the second straight year.

The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker reports in a Monday, April 23 news release that its sales of the Mustang were up 35 percent in China in 2017. In China, Ford says it was the best-selling sports coupe with more than 7,000 new registrations.

Ford says the Mustang seems to be most popular among millennials in China born between 1990 and 2000.

"Many young Chinese first time buyers love going online to do their research," Dean Stoneley, Ford's Asia Pacific vice president for marketing, said in the release.

"Our recent pilot with Tmall down in Guangzhou was a huge hit and all our Mustangs were rented in just 48 hours!"

Ford said it sold nearly 126,000 Mustang coupes and convertibles in 2017 across 146 different countries. The automaker reports that of the 125,809 Mustangs sold last year that 81,866 of those were registered stateside.

Back in March 2017, Ford touted the Mustang's ability to read Chinese Handwriting through its SYNC 3 in-car media and navigation system. Ford engineers from its research center in Nanjing trained Mustangs to "help Chinese drivers get to their destination faster." Before this technology, Chinese Mustang drivers would have to type using phonetic spellings of Chinese words using the alphabet, Ford reports.

Other vehicles to include the handwriting feature include the Focus, limited Taurus, Edge, Kuga and Explorers.

Ford's presence in China has continued to grow as back in February 2017, the automaker began exporting a U.S. built F-Series truck to the country for the first time. While the F-150 Raptor is the first export to China for the F-Series, the Dearborn-based automaker currently exports its Focus RS and ST models, as well as the Fiesta ST.

In late 2017, Ford set the goal of growing revenue in China by 50 percent by 2025, with a focus on its SUVs, electric and connected vehicle models. The company also moved production of its Focus to China, which represented the first time the automaker would export cars built in China to the U.S.

"China is not only the largest car market in the world, it's also at the heart of electric vehicle and SUV growth and the mobility movement," Executive Chairman Bill Ford said at the time.

"The progress we have achieved in China is just the start. We now have a chance to expand our presence in China and deliver even more for customers, our partners and society."