Volkswagen eleven-month sales surpass last year's sales figure

• Source: Xinhua
• [08:47 December 13 2010]
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Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen AG (VW) said Friday that its group eleven-month sales advanced 13 percent to 6.59 million, as it anticipated annual deliveries in 2010 would exceed 7 million for the first time.

With the 6.59 million units sold in 11 months, VW managed to exceed total deliveries for the full year 2009 of 6.29 million units.

The company outperformed the trend on global automobile markets, benefiting from the upturn on most major automobile markets such as China, total deliveries of which for January to November reached 1.82 million units, up 37.8 percent compared with the same period of 2009.

Sales in Asia-Pacific region as a whole enjoyed an even stronger growth rate of 38.6 percent.

The Group also reported continued high growth in the US, delivering 325,600 units, up 21.3 percent. Western Europe ( excluding Germany) grew to 1.71 million units, while Central and Eastern Europe grew 9.8 percent. Growth in Russia was particularly positive with a rise of 36.3 percent.

Domestically, the VW Group delivered 950,000 units, down 19 percent in the period to November, whereas the overall market contracted 25.2 percent due to the effects of the scrappage premium.

VW's luxury car unit Audi broke through the one million barrier in the period January to November, delivering more than 1 million vehicles worldwide.

Additionally, VW posted a 16.2 percent increase in deliveries to 617,100 units in November.

"The Volkswagen Group is benefiting disproportionately from the upturn on most major automobile markets," said the group's board member for sales, Christian Klingler. "We anticipate a new delivery record of more than seven million vehicles for the full year."