Volkswagen sold 4.36m cars worldwide in the first nine months of 2013, up 3.6% year on year.

September sales rose 6.8% to 526,300.

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“Volkswagen Passenger Cars has held its own well on world markets despite the challenging situation and continued to grow in China in particular”, said sales chief Christian Klingler.

The brand recorded a 16.5% YTD rise in Asia-Pacific while North American sales rose 2.1% to 466,000.

European sales slipped 5.7% to 1.23m.

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