Volkswagen brand sees sales grow to 6.23 million units a 4.2% growth on the previous year.

• 6.23 million vehicles handed over to customers worldwide
• Deliveries up 4.2 percent on previous year
• Most successful December in history of Volkswagen brand
• Tiguan family with record deliveries

The Volkswagen brand handed over a total of 6.23 million vehicles to customers worldwide in 2017, making last year the most successful yet in the history of the brand. China, the largest single market, is the main driver of this positive development. More than 3 million vehicles were delivered there for the first time last year, an increase of 5.9 percent compared with 2016.

Volkswagen launched the biggest model offensive in the brand’s history in 2017 under its “TRANSFORM 2025+” strategy. Vehicle deliveries already made significant gains during the course of the year. Volkswagen also set a new delivery record for December, handing over 594,100 vehicles (+5.6 percent) to customers worldwide. Delivery figures for the Tiguan family were 38 percent up on the previous year, and at over 720,000 units worldwide this family is more successful than ever before. 

Jürgen Stackmann, Volkswagen Brand Board Member for Sales, said: “We are delighted with the strong demand for our vehicles and with the brand’s positive momentum in recent months. I would like to thank our customers for placing their trust in us, and our retail partners for doing an excellent job. I am particularly pleased to see that incoming orders for electric vehicles in Germany and Europe have tripled compared with 2016. We will be stepping up the pace of our model offensive even further in 2018, with momentum coming from important new models such as the Polo, T-Roc and Touareg.” 

Deliveries in the regions and markets in December developed as follows: 

• At 136,400 new vehicles, deliveries in Europe were 6 percent higher than the previous year. The Volkswagen brand reported strong growth in Belgium (+17.8 percent) and Denmark (+10.4 percent). The positive trend was primarily driven by high demand for the Golf and Tiguan as well as the successful market launch of the new Polo. 

• At 42,000 units, deliveries in Germany in December rose by 8.4 percent. Orders in Germany continue to show a noticeable upward trend, in part attributable to positive momentum from the environmental incentive. 

• Volkswagen recorded strong growth of 8 percent in Central and Eastern Europe in December. Compared with December 2016, this trend was particularly pronounced in Poland (+27.9 percent) and Russia (+35.2 percent). 

• At 51,600 vehicles, deliveries in North America were 3 percent lower than the same month last year. While the number of vehicles handed over to customers in the USA in December declined by 18.7 percent, deliveries for the full year 2017 rose by a pleasing 5.2 percent. This is the first increase in deliveries since 2013. Canada reported an impressive 53.7 percent increase for the last month of the year, delivering 4,200 vehicles. This trend was again driven by the Golf Alltrack and the Atlas as well as the Tiguan launched in August. 

• 30,200 vehicles were handed over to customers in South America, representing an increase of 4 percent compared with the previous year. 

• In China, the Volkswagen brand posted new records both for December and for the full Deliveries to customers there increased by 12.9 percent, or approx. 39,000 vehicles, in December compared with the same month last year. As a result, the figures for December were the best-ever monthly figures for China. At 3.18 million, deliveries in China for the full year topped the 3 million mark for the first time. 

Overview of deliveries by the Volkswagen brand in 2017:

Deliveries to customers bymarkets	December 2016	December 2017	Change (%)	Jan.-Dec. 2016	Jan.-Dec. 2017	Change (%)
Europe	134,300	136,400	+1.6	1,690,300	1,688,100	-0.1
Western Europe	114,100	111,400	-2.4	1,466,100	1,429,200	-2.5
Germany	38,800	42,000	+8.4	557,800	531,600	-4.7
Centraland Eastern Europe	20,200	25,000	+23.8	224,200	259,000	+15.5
Russia	7,600	10,300	+35.2	74,200	89,400	+20.4
North America	58,800	51,600	-12.3	580,600	591,600	+1.9
USA	37,200	30,300	-18.7	322,900	339,700	+5.2
South America	30,100	30,200	+0.4	335,400	419,200	+25.0

Brazil	21,400	21,000	-2.3	218,200	261,100	+19.7
Asia-Pacific	317,300	356,300	+12.3	3,171,700	3,342,800	+5.4
China	303,100	342,100	+12.9	2,999,300	3,177,300	+5.9
Worldwide	562,400	594,100	+5.6	5,980,300	6,230,200	+4.2

WORLDWIDE SALES 2015 - Volkswagen has been hit in the final quarter due to the emissions scandal.

• Regional variations in Volkswagen brand's delivery performance in 2015. Europe and China remain important pillars.
• Brand Board of Management Member Jürgen Stackmann: "We continue to focus on winning back customers' trust while looking ahead with new products as we shape the future of this great automobile brand."

Volkswagen Passenger Cars delivered 5.82 million vehicles to customers worldwide in the full year 2015. "The Volkswagen brand did a good job last year in the face of challenging conditions. Regional performance varied quite considerably due to market factors. 

Above all Europe, together with China, remain important pillars for sales," explained Jürgen Stackmann, Member of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand responsible for Sales, Marketing and After-Sales, and added: "In 2016, we will continue to focus on winning back customers' trust because customer satisfaction is and will remain one of our most valuable assets. 

At the same time we are optimizing our global selling power and stepping on the gas with new models."

He said the new Touran* was in the middle of the market launch phase, the new Tiguan* was lined up and ready to go. With the Beetle Dune* and the GTI Club Sport*, the brand was launching two really fun-to-drive models. Stackmann continued: "All Volkswagen employees are highly motivated and are working on shaping the future of this great automobile brand and continuing to build outstanding cars."

The Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand delivered a total of 1.50 million vehicles in Western Europe in 2015, representing a rise of 4.7 percent. The brand recorded growth, sometimes quite significant, in Germany (+3.9 percent), Spain (+13.9 percent) and also Italy (+5.8 percent). 

Developments in Central and Eastern Europe were very mixed. While the situation in Russia proved challenging throughout the year (-38.8 percent), deliveries in countries such as the Czech Republic (+42.1 percent) and Poland (+8.5 percent) grew, in some cases quite strongly.

The brand delivered a total of 2.84 million units in the Asia-Pacific region in 2015. In China, its largest single market, the company returned to a positive trend in the last quarter, and also recorded a slight rise (+0.3 percent) in the month of December. Stackmann added: 

"That makes us optimistic we will be able to carry this momentum into the first quarter of 2016."

Volkswagen Passenger Cars grew deliveries by 0.9 percent in North America in the full year. The slight decrease in the United States (-4.8 percent) contrasted with growth in Canada (+7.1 percent) and Mexico (+11.8 percent). 

The situation in the South America region remains tense. 458,200 vehicles were handed over to customers there in 2015. The challenging situation in Brazil (-38.0 percent) continues to dominate developments in this region.

Overview of deliveries by the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand:

Deliveries to customers by markets	December 2015	December 2014	Change (%)	Jan.-Dec. 2015	Jan.-Dec. 2014	Change (%)
Europe	133,300	139,700	-4.5	1,713,500	1,681,400	+1.9
Western Europe	114,300	116,700	-2.1	1,503,800	1,436,700	+4.7
Germany	45,200	44,000	+2.7	601,000	578,400	+3.9
Central and Eastern Europe	19,000	22,900	-16.9	209,700	244,800	-14.3
Russia	7,900	13,900	-42.9	78,400	128,100	-38.8
North America	52,700	53,400	-1.1	592,100	586,700	+0.9
USA	31,000	34,100	-9.1	349,400	367,000	-4.8
South America	27,000	57,300	-52.8	458,200	662,600	-30.9
Brazil	20,800	49,500	-57.9	335,600	541,700	-38.0
Asia-Pacific	251,800	254,900	-1.2	2,836,100	2,970,900	-4.5
China	235,500	234,900	+0.3	2,630,000	2,758,200	-4.6
Worldwide	487,700	529,500	-7.9	5,823,400	6,118,700	-4.8

*Touran Fuel consumption (in l/100 km): 5.6 – 4.4 (combined); CO₂ emissions in g/km: 128 – 115 (combined); efficiency class: B, A

*Beetle Dune (Forecast value) Fuel consumption in l/100 km: 6.9 – 4.3 (combined); CO₂ emissions in g/km: 161 – 112 (combined), efficiency class: D-A

*Golf GTI Club Sport Fuel consumption (in l/100 km): 7.0 – 6.9 (combined); CO₂ emissions in g/km: 162 – 158 (combined); efficiency class: D

*Tiguan – There are not current values to the fuel consumption yet.