At Volkswagen Go back up after the weak last year: from January to March, the group delivered a good 2.1 million vehicles of all group brands from January to March, 1.4 percent more than in the same period of the previous year, as the Wolfsburgers said. VW had a minus of 2.3 percent throughout the previous year.
Above all, the previously weakening car brand VW made soil well. The core brand, which more than half of all sales are elevated, in the first quarter by a good 5 percent, it went up to a good 1.1 million vehicles. At Audi In contrast, global deliveries decreased by 3.4 percent to around 383,400 vehicles, at Porsche even by almost 8 percent to 71,500.
Trump’s tariffs ensure an attraction in the USA
It went down well across the group in China, where VW still delivered 644,000 cars, a good 7 percent less than a year ago. Increases in the rest of the world were more than able to compensate for this. In Europe it was 3.7 percent. In the USA the paragraph even attracted 6.2 percent. Experts see it in this way because of the new car tariffs from US President Donald Trump (78) that have applied since the beginning of April.
There were significant growth in electric cars: 216,800 pure Stromer of all group brands were delivered worldwide in the three months, almost 60 percent more than a year ago. In Europe, the number has even more than doubled compared to the weak first quarter of 2024, to 158,000 vehicles.
“The Volkswagen Group did its homework,” said VW group manager Oliver Blume (56) of the “Bild” newspaper. “Now we turn up a gear and go to the fast lane.” Every second newly registered electric car (around 48 percent) of the German market is a vehicle from the Volkswagen Group.