Global sales of Volkswagen (VW) passenger cars
have risen 10.4% year-on-year for the year to date, including an
11.9% year-on-year rise for July.
Year-to-July, VW sold 3.26m passenger cars
worldwide, and 468,300 in July. Despite sales falling 5% in the
opening seven months of the year to 528,200 units in Western Europe
(excluding Germany), registrations across the continent were up by
2.5% to 1.05m vehicles, thanks to a 40.4% rise in Central and
Eastern European sales and a 69.2% increase in Russia.
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Sales in the US, VW’s biggest market, were
also up by 34.1% to 245,700 registrations, year-to-date.
Although, at 13,435 units, sales of the VW
brand in the UK were down 1.5% for July, year-to-date registrations
were up 1.2% at 109,240.
The results follow
those for the first half of 2012 from VW Financial Services,
which handles finance for Seat, Audi, Bentley and Škoda, and saw
profits rise 20%
despite falling European sales.
richard.brown@vrlfinancialnews.com
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