Volkswagen global CV sales up 7 percent

Noticeable growth particularly in Germany has a positive impact on the delivery figures of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles: “Worldwide some 32,150 vehicles were delivered in February, which represents a 7.1 percent rise year on year,” said Bram Schot, Member of the Brand Board of Management for Sales and Marketing at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.

In its key market of Germany, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles recorded a 17.1 percent increase in deliveries for the month of February. A total of 8,400 vehicles were delivered from the model ranges T5, Caddy, Amarok and Crafter. Apart from Germany, Spain (+18.6 percent), Italy (+8.1 percent) and the United Kingdom (+5.3 percent) have also been able to improve considerably on their previous year's result.

The Middle East region similarly recorded an exceptionally successful February, where deliveries of 2,900 vehicles represent an increase of 113.7 percent. The strong growth is mainly attributable to delivery figures in Turkey (+124.9 percent).

In South America and Eastern Europe, the difficult conditions continued to have an effect, with decreasing figures in Russia being particularly noticeable. The 2,500 vehicles delivered in February represented a fall of 16.9 percent for the Eastern Europe region. In South America, the number of vehicle deliveries fell to 2,600. Despite a positive result in Argentina (1,300 vehicles; +21.8 percent), figures for the region were 3 percent down year on year in total.

The Africa region with 1,100 vehicles delivered was significantly below the level of the previous year (-36.9 percent); Asia/Pacific with a total of 1,700 vehicles was able to deliver 3.6 percent more vehicles than in the equivalent month of the preceding year.