It’s been a good year for the Volkswagen brand with the German automaker reporting global sales of 4.69 million passenger cars from January to November 2011, a 12.4 percent increase over the same prior-year period (4.18 million).
For the month of November, the VW brand saw its passenger car sales grow 14.5 percent to 452,900 vehicles.
“The Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand performed well in November on world markets that were at times volatile and grew vehicle deliveries further,” Christian Klingler, Board Member for Sales and Marketing for the Volkswagen Group and the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand, commented on Tuesday.
The company’s year-to-date sales in Europe were up 10.6 percent to 1.58 million vehicles, of which 549,300 (+10.5 %) were delivered in its home market of Germany.
Notably, VW recorded a 47.5 percent increase in the Central and Eastern Europe region, where it sold 195,800 vehicles, while the brand doubled its sales in Russia to 104,200 vehicles (+100%).
In other regions, Volkswagen delivered 1.8 million vehicles (+14.4%) in the Asia / Pacific area in the period from January to November, of which 1.61 million units (+11.4%) were sold in China, while North American sales reached 448,500 units (+22.5%) and South American sales, 708,100 vehicles (+3.6%).
