VW is suffering from declining sales in the USA and China. (Symbolic image) Photo: Julian Stratenschulte/dpa
Wolfsburg. At VW, the core Volkswagen brand sold fewer cars in 2025 than in the previous year. 4.73 million vehicles from the brand were handed over to customers worldwide, 1.4 percent less than a year earlier, as the Wolfsburg-based company announced. This means that the loss for the brand was somewhat greater than for the group as a whole. The day before it had reported a decline of 0.5 percent.
Sales figures fell particularly in China and the USA. In China, where the former market leader is struggling with tough price competition from local electric car providers, the number of deliveries fell by 8.4 percent to 2.02 million. In North America the number fell by 8.2 percent to 544,000. US President Donald Trump’s tariffs would have a noticeable impact on deliveries here, it was said.
In Europe, however, the brand grew by 5.1 percent to 1.32 million vehicles. In South America there was an even more significant increase of 18.5 percent to 568,000 vehicles.
There was hardly any movement in the number of electric cars sold by the core brand. Around 382,000 fully electric ID models were delivered worldwide, which was 0.2 percent less than in 2024. In Europe, however, VW increased its electric models noticeably – by almost 50 percent to 248,000 vehicles. In Germany, the number of electric cars increased by more than 60 percent to 94,000.