2023 Author: Eric Donovan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-21 15:44
VW rushes from record to record. A new delivery record for cars was set in May, and a new record was also announced after the first five months of the year.
Volkswagen cars are selling brilliantly. From January to May 2011, 2.09 million sales were made. This was the first time in five months that the two million mark was exceeded. May had a strong share in this, with 436,400 vehicles sold representing an increase in sales of 16.1 percent compared to the same month last year. "We continued our positive development in May and achieved a new delivery record," said Christian Klingler, Member of the Board of Management for Sales and Marketing of the Volkswagen Group and the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand, on Tuesday in Wolfsburg.
China is by far the largest single market
An increase of 18.9 percent was achieved in the Asia / Pacific region. Of the 792,100 units sold, 714,200 vehicles were in China, the largest single market. In North America, 194,600 cars were sold in the first five months, an increase of 19.7 percent.
There were 40.2 percent more sales in the Central and Eastern Europe region. Of the 71,900 vehicles, 34,400 were in Russia. Sales there almost doubled after 17,300 vehicles were sold there in the first five months of 2010. On the home market, the increase was lower at 3.6 percent. 248,800 cars found new buyers here. (AG)
