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The Wolfsburg carmaker was able to increase its sales in the USA, especially in the first half of the year.
Herndon After a drop in sales in the previous month has Volkswagen also sold fewer cars in the important US market in October. With 28,072 cars, the manufacturer was according to the announcement of Friday 3.2 percent less new cars VWLogo going on than last year. While the SUVs Atlas and Tiguan remained well in demand among the US clientele, the high-volume model Jetta again suffered heavy losses.
Thanks to strong growth from January to August, VW is holding in the current annual balance sheet with 3.7 percent in the plus. If the business is going well at the end of the year, the Wolfsburg-based auto giant could make up for the sales slump on the US market in 2019 caused by the temporary crash of sales figures in the wake of the exhaust gas scandal.
BMW has significantly increased US sales in October. With 25,440 vehicles were sold 9.4 percent more than in the same period last year, said the company in Woodcliff Lake. Since the beginning of the year, the plus amounts to 3.8 percent. rival Daimler In October, however, only managed a sales increase of 1.2 percent to 27,867 Mercedes Benz-Dare. In the year to date sales even stagnated.
Significantly better than VW, it was in October at the Group subsidiary Audi. Here sales increased by a strong 19 percent to 19,172 new cars. During the year lies Audi but still still with 3.2 percent in the minus, The also belonging to the VW Group sports car maker Porsche was 5447 in October and thus 13.1 percent more cars in the USA Come on. Since the beginning of the year there has been an increase of 6.5 percent.
Overall, the US car market in October after the weak previous month again in better shape, but had not yet all manufacturers presented their numbers. Honda and Hyundai increased sales significantly, Toyota and Nissan had to cut back on the other hand. The three US market leaders General Motors, ford and Fiat Chrysler publish only quarterly.
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