Sales of Volkswagen commercial vehicles rose 9.6% to 214,200 in the first six months of 2006 helped by solid demand for the new LT and Crafter models, the automaker said on Monday.

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“We achieved the best result in terms of first half deliveries in our history,” VW commercial vehicle’s head of sales and marketing, Harald Schomburg, said in a statement cited by Reuters.


The figures represent a slowdown in growth in the second quarter however, as VW commercial vehicles deliveries rose 11.4% to 99,455 units in the first three months of the year, the news agency noted.

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