2023 Author: Eric Donovan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 15:44
Europe's largest car manufacturer VW is continuing on its growth path. In the first seven months of the year, the Wolfsburg-based company was able to sell more than five million vehicles worldwide for the first time.
The VW Group was able to deliver more than five million vehicles to customers worldwide for the first time in the first seven months of the year. As the company announced on Friday in Wolfsburg, a total of 5.19 million were sold. This corresponds to growth of 9.1 percent compared to the same period in the previous year. In the month of July, the growth for Europe's largest car manufacturer was even higher. With 734,600 vehicles sold, an increase of 10.3 percent was achieved.
VW Group Sales Director Christian Klingler was satisfied with the figures presented. “Overall we got off to a good start in the second half of the year and were able to grow in almost all regions, especially in Asia, North America and Russia. In contrast, the situation in Western Europe remains clearly tense, where our brands developed better than the overall market in a difficult environment."
Seat remains in the red
In the USA, VW was able to increase its deliveries by 30 percent to 324,200 vehicles by July; in North America 457,900 vehicles were handed over to customers in the first seven months. This corresponds to an increase of almost 22 percent. In China, the most important automobile market for Wolfsburg, growth was 17.1 percent with 1.51 million vehicles. In Germany, VW's 708,100 vehicles grew by 4.4 percent.
The core brand VW accounted for 3.26 (plus 10.4 percent) deliveries worldwide as of July. The premium brand Audi was able to deliver 852,900 (plus 12.4 percent) vehicles, with the Ingolstadt-based brand increasing particularly in China with 226,700 (Plis 34.6 percent).
The Czech VW subsidiary Skoda had 565,600 (plus 8.1 percent) vehicles handed over to customers and Seat delivered 189,200 vehicles worldwide as of July, which corresponds to an increase of 12.2 percent. In Germany, however, the Spanish brand was able to grow by 11.4 percent with 34,400 vehicles. (AG)
