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Volkswagen sells significantly more in Germany, and significantly fewer cars in the US
The car maker Volkswagen sold significantly more vehicles in September than in the weak month of the previous year. Last month, VW delivered 904,200 cars to its customers throughout the group, the Dax Group announced on Friday in Wolfsburg. That is 9.2 percent more than in the same period last year. In September 2018 still had the introduction of the exhaust and consumption test WLTP Volkswagen Show stock market chart hard hit, because the automaker had not yet certified many models according to the new specifications and therefore could not sell them.
Particularly in Germany (+58.1 percent) and Europe (+31 percent), the increase in the number of vehicles delivered was particularly strong. Also in the world’s largest and most important single market China could the VW group in September, as known to gain slightly, However, at 0.2 percent, deliveries were only marginally above the previous year’s level. Because of the still smoldering customs dispute with the USA The Chinese market has been weakening for some time now, and the customers’ former desire to buy has noticeably declined.
Things were not going around in North America. In the important US market, Volkswagen recorded a minus of 11.5 percent. In South America, by contrast, growth of 9.1 percent was recorded. VW Group Sales Director Christian Dahlheim spoke of a tense economic and geopolitical environment. In this, the VW brands have once again proved to be particularly valuable, he said. In 2019, the Volkswagen Group, with its 8 million vehicles delivered worldwide, was around 1.5 percent lower than in the same period of the previous year after nine months.
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As already known, the brands for the core brand VW passenger cars were around in September. Audi also benefited from the weak comparative value of the previous year. Could also gain clearly the luxury daughter Porsche and Skoda. With a plus of almost 37 percent, the increase in the Spanish subsidiary Seat is the most significant. However, deliveries of light VW commercial vehicles were declining.
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