VW Group’s Skoda subsidiary sold a record 522,500 cars in the first six months of the year and set a new monthly sales record in June with 94,500 deliveries.
It’s the first time the company has sold more than half-a-million vehicles in the first half of a year, said sales and marketing chief Werner Eichhorn. “This great result from the first six months makes us very optimistic for the second half of the year,” he said.
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Sales in Western Europe of the Octavia – the company’s best-selling model – grew by 47.4% and globally by 7.5% to reach 194,800 units. Overall sales in the region grew by 17% to 217,900. Sales were also up by 27.6% to 28,600 units in central Europe but stayed relatively flat year-on-year in eastern Europe at 58,700 units.
First half sales in China increased 8.7 % to 130,700 units.
