Volkswagen Group on Friday said it delivered 5.73m vehicles, up 1%, worldwide in the first 11 months of this year.
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“The group therefore ranks among the few automakers this year who have matched or even slightly exceeded last year’s delivery figures,” VW said in a statement, aknowledging it could not “entirely escape the impact of the continuing dramatic distortions on the world market”.
Last month’s sales of 447,000 vehicles were down 16.5% year on year in a global market off 24.5%.
In Brazil, the group delivered 591,800 vehicles from January to November, an increase of 11.9%. In China, growth was 10.1% to 931,100 units. There was also growth in Russia, where deliveries rose 61.6% to 118,300 units, and India, where deliveries increased 59.7% to 17,700 vehicles.
On an overall European market which remained weak, the group delivered 3.2m vehicles (-1.7%) in the first 11 months of the year, of which 967,500 units (+0.4%) were delivered in Germany and 1.8m (-6.6%) in the rest of western Europe.
Volkswagen Passenger Cars, the group’s highest-volume brand, delivered 3.37m vehicles (+0.2%) to customers worldwide from January to November 2008, of which 482,000 vehicles (+1.5%) were delivered in Germany.
