Volkswagen Group Records Best Ever First-Half-of-Year Sales

With 5.5 million vehicles in customer hands after the first six months of 2018, the Volkswagen Group is seeing the best performance of its history.

Group deliveries increased significantly in all core regions,” said Fred Kappler, head of sales for the Group. “Our core brands recorded strong growth in the first half year.”

For the year-to-date, all of Volkswagen’s brands had sales bumps. MAN, SEAT, and Skoda led the sales charge with performances 24%, 17% and 11% better than the previous year. The big sellers, too, had strong sales periods, with Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Audi, and Volkswagen sales rising 3.5%, 4.5% and 6.3% respectively.

That last figure is particularly good new for the board, since Volkswagen alone sold more than 3 million vehicles in the first half of 2018.

As Kappler stated, the numbers are equally good when you break sales down by region. Brazil and Russia were the most improved markets (22% and 20%, respectively), while strong sales in Europe and China (up 6.5% and 9%) helped disproportionately.

Despite the good news, Kappler isn’t expecting quite the same performance for the second half of the year.

“We expect deliveries in the second half of 2018 to be affected by the introduction of the new WLTP standard,” said Kappler.” Some vehicles will probably be handed over to customers later than planned.”

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