The Volkswagen passenger cars brand has delivered 511,500 vehicles worldwide in October, 4.4 percent more than the previous year.
A total of 4,886,400 vehicles were handed over to customers from January to October. As a result, cumulative deliveries by the Volkswagen brand again exceeded the previous year’s level.
Jürgen Stackmann, Volkswagen Brand Board Member for Sales, saidd: “The positive overall trend for the Volkswagen brand has stabilised compared with 2015. 53,000 units of the old and new Tiguan models were delivered in October, more than 25 percent up on the previous year. There has been a fantastic response to the new Tiguan. And Touran deliveries were up more than 50 percent compared with the previous year, with 12,800 units of the old and new models handed over to customers in October. The trend is therefore clearly headed in the right direction, but we still continue to work on the challenges facing the brand in some regions. That includes systematically strengthening the brand in Europe, North America and South America.”
Volkswagen brand deliveries in the overall European market decreased by 7.0 percent in October compared with the previous year to 132,400 vehicles. The majority of these models – 112,500 units – were delivered in Western. 43,000 vehicles were handed over to customers in the home market of Germany, a decline of 21.1 percent. This is attributable to a systemic decline mainly as a result of an extension in the contract term for employee leasing. Volkswagen continued its successful path in Central and Eastern Europe, where deliveries rose by 3.0 percent to 19,800 vehicles.