Despite a difficult year in
Europe, the Volkswagen passenger car brand closed 2013 with a 3.4 per cent rise
in sales to a new record, delivering 5.93 million vehicles to customers. This
compares with 5.74 million in 2012.
Christian Klingler,
board member for sales and marketing for the Volkswagen Group commented. “We
face new and difficult challenges in 2014, but we are very well prepared thanks
to our young and sustainable product range.”
In the European market,
where the situation remained difficult, VW delivered 1.64 million vehicles (1.70
million in 2012; or a drop of 3.7 per cent). Of these 263,300 (267,100; -1.4
per cent) went to customers in the Central and Eastern Europe region.
