Dieselgate, what Dieselgate? VW reportedly said it was heading for another record group sales year.
According to Reuters, CEO Mathhias Mueller said a “strong trend” in deliveries was set to continue with November and December data.
The automaker said recently group October sales rose 8.2% year on year to 940,800 vehicles while year to date 10-month volume of 8.7m was up 3.2%.
“All brands have most recently developed strongly,” Reuters quoted Mueller telling a works council meeting in Wolfsburg. “And I trust that also the two remaining months will confirm the strong trend. And that we will be able to finish the year 2017 on a new record.”
The report noted that, in 2016, the first full year after Dieselgate broke, group sales rose 3.8% to a record 10.3m cars.
Mueller said a post-Dieselgate drive to improve accountability and become more transparent was making slow progress.
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By GlobalData“On the issue of culture change, progress is in part still dragging. In many places we are still too slow, too bureaucratic and too hierarchical.”
Reuters added that VW brand chief Herbert Diess told the Handelsblatt newspaper differences with the unions remain a year after a turnaround plan was agreed.
“We are in part divided on how quickly the whole thing (reforms) should happen,” the paper quoted Diess as saying.