Friday, 10 January 2014

VW commercial sales tread water

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles supplied 551,900 vehicles in the 2013 trading year, compared with 550,150 in 2012 a rise of 0.3 per cent.

South America was one of VW’s best markets with sales up 8.3 per cent to 160,400 light commercial vehicles and pick-ups against 148,100 in 2012.

Of these, 123,900 were accounted for by deliveries of vehicles to Brazil – up 9.1 per cent on 2012 to 113,600; and 24,200 vehicles sold to customers in Argentina (2012: 20,100; +20.5 per cent).

The Mexican market, part of the North America region, sales of the VW brand rose 24.5 per cent to 9,850 (2012: 7,900).

In Africa, VW cv’s sales rose to 20,140 units (2012: 19,500; +3.3 per cent), while in the Asia-Pacific region the volume of shipped vehicles grew 6.4 per cent to 20,150 (2012: 18,950). In the Near East region sales fell a whopping 9.4 per cent to 26,900 units (2012: 29,700).

Across Europe, however, sales fell 3.5 per cent to 314,400 light commercial vehicles from the T5, Caddy, Amarok and Crafter ranges (2012: 325,900). In Western Europe, excluding Germany, 159,400 vehicles were shipped (2012: 161,100; -1.1 per cent). In Germany 114,800 units were handed over to new customers (2012: 123,100; -6.7 per cent). In Eastern Europe Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles shipped 40,250 vehicles in 2013 (2012: 41,670; -3.4 per cent).                         

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