Not surprisingly, Volkswagen sold more cars in Europe than anyone else in the first half of calendar year 2007. VW sold 155,595 units in the first half of the year, a 0.6 percent decrease over the previous year, but still enough to capture a higher percentage of car sales than anyone else.
Volkswagen took 10.1 percent of the market. The rest of the top-five, by percentage per individual brand, were: Opel/Vauxhall (9); Renault (8.2), Ford (7.6) and Peugeot (7.2). Fiat and Citroen tied for sixth with six percent.
Also not surprising is the fact that the VW Group, as a whole, captured more of the market than any other group: 19.1 percent. The next closest was PSA, which includes Peugeot and Citroen, at 13.2 percent, and Ford at 9.9 percent.
The biggest gainers in the first half were Honda, whose sales climbed 23.5 percent, and Renault-owned Dacia, whose sales grew 23 percent, thanks to rapid sales in Eastern Europe. The biggest losers? Saab and Lexus, both of whom dropped around 17 percent. But Saab and Lexus are relatively small players in Europe, so every sale makes a difference.
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07/13, 3:00 PM
posted by:
Madcapp
VW needs to put that new Siemens VDO RNS510 navigation unit in all their cars pronto.
07/13, 3:55 PM
posted by:
Htay5500
yea, their navs are slow, and too complex, which does sum up unlike Hondas.
07/13, 5:00 PM
posted by:
RicardoHead
155,595 units???? In all of Europe? Is there a digit missing from that number? Toyota sold more Camry’s than that in the first half of the year in teh USA alone.
07/13, 5:26 PM
posted by:
Pauly
Europeans buy far fewer cars than Americans. There’s much less of a need for them over there.
07/13, 6:39 PM
posted by:
jackjimturkey
pauly:
Europeans have mass transit that takes people where they want to go. They’re smart about that sort of thing
I like the late-’90s passat and the beetle. I would need a v6
07/13, 8:23 PM
posted by:
RicardoHead
Sorry you europologists who long to sit in a bus full of a bunch of unbathed europeans picking their noses, but the european car market (including eastern states) is about the size (unit-wise) as the USA. They may buy fewer cars per capita because there are more europeans, but they buy about 16 million cars, and not 3 million as is implied above (155k divided by 10.1% = 1.5M times 2 = 3M).
VW probably sold 155,595 cars in June only … not in the first half of the year as the LLN writer claims. Below is a link to units sold in europe by country. It shows about 1.5M units in June and a bit over 8M year to date. The link is from the European Auto Mfg’s Association. LLN – do your homework, and europologists – eat crow.
http://www.acea.be/files/479.xls
07/13, 9:47 PM
posted by:
1c3d0g
Hahaha…A4…love yer comment!
07/14, 12:03 AM
posted by:
c4Menace
lmao a4, beautiful comment!
im in the USA and im thinking of getting myself a gti mk 5. Ive been told that VW is crap when it comes to reliability, I think thats nolonger the case. VW must be doing something right to take EU.
07/14, 10:21 AM
posted by:
BLISS
continue on that same track vw car group.
07/14, 10:22 AM
posted by:
BLISS
VW COULD BE VERY COMPETITIVE IN YEARS TO COME.
07/14, 11:58 AM
posted by:
jackjimturkey
VWs are for people with personality. i like their commercials and their cars — to a certain extent
07/14, 8:03 PM
posted by:
LP640
GO VW
07/15, 4:56 PM
posted by:
rognbrow
The Volkswagen Group delivered 3.09 million vehicles to customers throughout the world in the first six months of 2007, an all-time sales record for the company. Group deliveries from January through June 2007 in Europe rose by 3.7 percent to 1.86 million vehicles, 1.62 million of which went to Western Europe (1.3 percent increase)
07/16, 4:59 AM
posted by:
spud
Burmanesski what planet are you on? Eastern Europe has some of the most beautiful scenery in the whole of Eruope. Stunning beaches, amaizng scenery.. Your dumb comments shout of someone that has never been there. We’re not talking of Chechnia here, you know!
Amazing places to visit for any of you septics coming for a holiday to Europe – you would do well to consider Prague (Czechoslovakia), Kraków (Poland) and Budapest (Hungary). These are some of the most beautiful places on the planet – let alone Europe. Far from being AK47 toting commies that you no doubt believe, the people of E.Europe are fiercely proud of their own countries, and greatly disliked being under the control on the USSR for years. Aside from the parts that were flattened during WW2 and rebuilt under comunist rule such as Warsaw) architecture is stunning that is an eye-opener to most people in Europe let alone the US.
Lovely friendly people, cheap prices (20c a beer anyone?) lovely scenery.. stunning. No bullet proof vests required, prick!
Todays Geography lesson over. Any Questions?
07/16, 7:15 PM
posted by:
Gogogodzilla
Czechoslovakia no longer exists. It’s now the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
(Though, I really think the Czech Republic needs to go back to the original name – Bohemia.)
Poland has some great places to visit besides Krakow. Malbork on the Nogat is a fantastic castle to visit. Not to mention Wroclaw, Gdansk, and Lublin.
Too bad the Soviets took Lwow, though.