Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles delivered 195,200 light commercial vehicles to customers from January to May. This corresponds to an increase of 5.7 per cent. In this period, the T model range was the top seller: the Transporter, Caravelle, Multivan and California achieved a world-wide delivery increase of 11.2 per cent at over 81,400 units. With a figure of 40,100 units delivered in the single month of May, brand sales were considerably higher than in the same period last year (+8.7 per cent).
Bram Schot, Member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles responsible for Sales and Marketing, said: “We are very satisfied with developments in our sales situation in the month of May. This is also due to excellent work undertaken by our dealer network in the past few months. A lot of the feedback from our customers is positive; our product portfolio is well received.”
In Germany, 49,700 vehicles (+4.4 per cent) were delivered to customers during the first five months of the year. Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles also increased sales in the European volume markets of Spain (+27.4 per cent to 5,600 vehicles), Italy (+26.3 per cent to 4,500 vehicles) and France (+20.1 per cent to 8.000 vehicles).
In Eastern Europe the brand reported a rise of 8.2 per cent with 13,900 deliveries.
Outside Europe the following regions reported increases: North America (+19.6 per cent to 3,000 vehicles), South America (+4.0 per cent to 15,500 vehicles) and the Middle East (+1.8 per cent to 14,000 vehicles).
Only the single market of Brazil (-17.9 per cent to 4,300 vehicles) and the African region (-14.6 per cent to 6,100 vehicles) recorded decreases in vehicle deliveries due to continuing difficulties in the general conditions there.
World-wide brand deliveries broken down by model ranges:
– 81,400 vehicles from the T model range (73,200; +11.2 per cent)
– 64,300 vehicles from the Caddy range (61,800; +4.0 per cent)
– 30,300 vehicles from the Amarok range (30,100; +0.9 per cent)
– 19,100 vehicles from the Crafter range (19,400; -1.8 per cent)