In the first three months of 2015, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles supplied 108,200 light commercial vehicles to customers around the world (first quarter of 2014: 103,200; +4.8 per cent). In the total Western European market the brand increased the number of deliveries by 8 per cent to 72,300 (2014: 66,900).
At 27,100 vehicles (+11.5 per cent), Germany remains the European market in which the highest volume of vehicles is sold. In Great Britain deliveries rose by 12.2 per cent to 12,900 vehicles. Spain recorded, with 2,400 vehicles, growth of 17 per cent.
“The current T series and Caddy models in particular are very popular with customers as they approach the end of their run,” says Bram Schot, Board Member for Sales and Marketing at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. “The strong results in Western Europe are a boost for us. We now aim to follow on from this success with the new generations of the T series and Caddy, which customers will soon be able to order from our dealers.”
In addition to Western Europe, the brand also recorded good results in other regions: the very positive trend in the Middle East region continued. At 8,000 vehicles, the number of units delivered increased by 79 per cent (previous year: 4,500). In Mexico the brand’s sales rose to 1,600 units (previous year: 1,500; +7.3 per cent). At 5,400 vehicles, Asia/Pacific was 0.1 per cent up on the year before.
Due to difficult economic and political conditions, deliveries in the following regions went down: in South America the number fell year-on-year by 13.3 per cent to 9,200 vehicles (previous year: 10,600). In Eastern Europe deliveries went down by 15.7 per cent to 7,800 units (previous year: 9,200). The Africa region posted a drop of 21.7 per cent to 4,000 vehicles (previous year: 5,200).