Wolfsburg, 14 August 2007 - The Volkswagen brand achieved a worldwide sales increase of 7.9 percent between January and July 2007 as compared to the same period last year. A total of 2.11 million vehicles were delivered to customers from the broad VW model range from Fox to Phaeton in those seven months. "We have never sold so many Volkswagen vehicles in this period before. We look forward with confidence to the months ahead", said Dr Michael Kern, member of the Volkswagen brand board of management with responsibility for Sales and Marketing.
With 310,000 Volkswagens delivered, July was also a new record for the seventh month of the year and, with a plus of 10.5 percent, achieved the strongest growth in sales figures in 2007 thus far.
Of the ten biggest individual markets worldwide for the Volkswagen brand, Brazil achieved the biggest improvement in sales figures, reaching 30.6 percent between January and July 2007. More than 261,000 VW models were delivered here. This was followed by China, also Volkswagen's largest individual market, with a plus of 25.4 percent (443,000 deliveries) as well as Argentina with an increase of 20.9 percent (60,000 deliveries).