VW China outsells German market
July 28, 2009 by Matt Brogan
Volkswagen has for the first time ever sold more cars in China than it did in its home market of Germany.
For the first half of 2009 the manufacturer sold 652,000 units in China while selling 631,900 vehicles on home soil. Both figures represent an increased demand for VW vehicles.
In 2008 Volkswagen saw a 22.7 per cent increase over that same period in China while in Germany sales increased 18.3 per cent.
For comparison, Volkswagen saw a five per cent fall in global demand, mostly due to slowing sales elsewhere in Europe and in Northern America (selling 1,662,900 and 221,900 units respectively).
The figures include all vehicles in the Volkswagen group such as Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Seat, Skoda and VW.
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Whilst this is great news for VW, I recently returned from China and literally all of their taxis are VW’s, so these figures may be slightly distorted. They do seem to be a popular car for the public though as well. But there are a lot more VW taxis, than VW private cars in China.
Oh well, a goal’s a goal, even if it’s soccered through, AW.
AW,
VW do sell a lot of private cars in china, including jetta, passat, golf and polo. You will see these cars on street all the time.
Most VW Taxis are a model called ‘Santana’, which I think is designed in China (pretty ugly) but they are quite cheap and reliable.
As I recall, VW was actually the 1st foreign car company that start to build cars in China, in late 80s, their brand in China had been established for over 20 years, so it is not a surprise for them to make really good $$$.
Well done VW, great cars, the new Toyota
I’m wondering when this dream uprising of China will end. I read somewhere that many car manufacturers aim for a million-plus cars sold in a year. That is quite scary considering the cars aren’t very modern in terms of safety ratings and emissions.
Maybe people can finally wake up and smell the coffee-beans, China IS the new and master and biggest and most important car country on the planet.
Tallipa
shanghai is shanghai. in shanghai ,u will find the taxi is more than private cars eveywhere.u know how much the license plate is, at least 10000AUD,and people must go to bid the license plate. so many people can afford the car, but they still using public transport. the chinese driver doesn’t know this.The santana is originally from brzil.current taxi in shanghai most are santana2000, really realiable, it has been sold around 13years in my memory