Record-breaking Quarter for Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles

Thanks to deliveries across the globe of 110,100 minivans, leisure vehicles, light commercial vehicles, heavy trucks and Volksbuses, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has achieved another sales record in the first quarter of 2007.

This was announced by Stefan Schaller, chairman of the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles board, at a press conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This represents a renewed increase of 10.6 percent for the period January to March 2007 (January to March 2006: 99,500 deliveries).

“Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has continued its record journey in the first quarter of this year following the very successful year we had in 2006,” says Schaller. “This is the best first quarter in the history of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. These successful figures motivate us and show us that we are taking the right route.”

The Caddy, T5 and Crafter ranges produced in Europe achieved a global sales increase of 10.9 percent to 87,700 delivered vehicles year on year (previous year: 80,600). The Caddy managed to raise its worldwide deliveries by 15.2 percent to 33,000 vehicle sales (previous year: 28,600). The T5 series with its Transporter, Caravelle, Multivan and California variants recorded an increase in global deliveries of 6.7 percent to 45,500 units (previous year: 42,800) in the first quarter of 2007. The Crafter, which was launched in Germany and Europe in 2006, managed to increase deliveries by 1.2 percent to 9,300 vehicles (previous year: 9,200) compared with the previous model the LT.

Deliveries of the Volkswagen T2 and Saveiro models in the regional markets of South America rose in the first quarter by 20.8 percent to 12,400 vehicles (10,200 in 2006).

Of the trucks and buses produced in Brazil and Mexico, 10,050 vehicles were sold. Compared with the first quarter of 2006, the global sales increase was 17.5 percent (previous year: 8,550).

On their home market in Brazil, Volkswagen trucks continue to be the market leaders with a market share of 30.9 percent. The delivery figure of 6,200 trucks represents an increase of 22 percent compared with the same period in the previous year (previous year: 5,100). The Volksbuses also raised their deliveries by 22 percent to 1,700 vehicles (previous year: 1,400).