January to July: Yet another delivery record for the Volkswagen brand

The Volkswagen brand delivered 2.21 million vehicles worldwide (+4.7 percent) in the first seven months of this year, setting a new record for this period. There was a slight dip in deliveries in July as a result of the general market decline, with the brand delivering 305,000 vehicles to customers worldwide (-1.5 percent) during that month. Compared with the overall market, worldwide deliveries by the Volkswagen brand developed significantly better both for the period January to July 2008 and for the month of July 2008 than deliveries on the global market (January to July: +0.4 percent; July: -4,2 percent).

The highest-volume individual markets for the brand are China and Brazil. Both markets saw new delivery records for the period January to July: the brand delivered 501,250 passenger cars (+12.9 percent) in China and 314,500 (+20.4 percent) in Brazil. For the first time, more vehicles were delivered in Brazil than in Germany.