Volkswagen Group sells 841,200 vehicles in April, down 1.4%

Since the beginning of the year, the Volkswagen Group has sold over 3.3 million new vehicles to customers. In April, the Group delivered 841,200 vehicles (-1.4 percent).

Summarising the sales numbers for April, Fred Kappler, Head of Group Sales of Volkswagen, said: "At the beginning of the second quarter, we were able to increase our deliveries in China again. In April, the development in Volkswagen Group deliveries in Western Europe was better than the market as a whole, which was affected by the late date of the Easter holidays. At the same time, we experienced a strong tailwind in Central and Eastern Europe, where there was a marked increase in deliveries of new vehicles.”

In Europe, the Group sold 1.5 million vehicles over to its customers in the January to April 2017 period (+2.8 percent) including 368,600 in April (-1.6 percent). 305,000 vehicles (-3.9 percent) were sold in Western Europe in April. 113,200 vehicles (-7.2 percent) were handed over to customers in Germany. Volkswagen says in Central and Eastern Europe, strong growth has been observed since the beginning of the year. Compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, Group deliveries grew by 12.0 percent to 233,200 vehicles. In April, the Group boosted deliveries in the region by 11.1 percent to 63,600 vehicles.

In the North American market, the Group sold 293,200 vehicles from January to the end of April (+3.3 percent). 79,500 vehicles were handed over to customers in April, a fall of 3.4 percent. In April, 52,000 customers in the USA took delivery of a new vehicle from the Group, representing a rise of 3.0 percent. In South America, a slight rise of 1.5 percent was recorded in April compared with the previous year; 39,400 vehicles were handed over to customers in the region.

Sales up in China for the first time in 2017
Deliveries in the Asia-Pacific region in April reached 320,800 vehicles (-0.2 percent). In total, 1.3 million vehicles (-5.3 percent) were handed over to customers in the region in the first four months of the year. On the Chinese market, Group deliveries reached 299,700 vehicles in April (+1.5 percent), rising again for the first time since the beginning of the year.

In India, Volkswagen sold a total of 3,673 units, up 20.86 percent year on year.