GERMANY: VW sales chief says some markets “remain tense”
Following the news earlier this week premium brand Audi had hiked its 2014 sales target to about 1.4m, parent Volkswagen Group announced a 6.5% rise in deliveries to the end of August, to 6.52m vehicles.
Following the news earlier this week premium brand Audi had hiked its 2014 sales target to about 1.4m, parent Volkswagen Group announced a 6.5% rise in deliveries to the end of August, to 6.52m vehicles.
August sales rose 2.7% to 740,500 units worldwide.
[Group] deliveries developed well in the first eight months. However, the economic environment in some world markets remains tense,” sales chief Christian Klingler said in a statement.
Western Europe (excluding Germany) sales rose 8.2% to 1.31m, Germany was up 6.5% to 757,300 but, though Central and Eastern Europe volume rose 3.2% sales dived 11.6% in Russia.
North American sales fell 1.8% to 583,300 and were down 22.2% to 471,700 in South America.
Chinese sales rose 16.5% to 2.4m.
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