Volkswagen brand sales jumped 3.6% in the first nine months of this year to 4.36m vehicles with a jump of nearly 7% in September when over 526,300 were sold. The increase was fuelled by strong sales in Asia Pacific which more than offset falls elsewhere.
Christian Klingler, board member for sales and marketing for the VW Group and the VW passenger cars brand, said that VW had held its own well on world markets despite the challenging situation and continued to grow in China in particular.
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The brand recorded a 16.5% rise from January to September in the Asia-Pacific region, handing over 1.95m units there, of which 1.79m were delivered in China (excluding Hong Kong). Deliveries in India, however, declined 10% to 45,900.
In North America passenger cars sales grew 2.1% to 466,000 of which 314,800 were in the US, a fall of 2.6%. South American deliveries declined 13.4% in the first nine months to 542,500.
In Europe, VW deliveries also declined 5.7% to 1.23m in the first three quarters. In the German home market, delivery delays due to the bad weather in Wolfsburg which caused hailstorm damage to several thousand vehicles continued. As a result, deliveries to customers from January to September were down 8.2% to 410,300.
