Economy
Friday, April 01, 2016
Sales figures from the US do not bode well: Volkswagen has in March again suffered a sharp decline. Untouched by exhaust scandal draws the heel of the model “Tiguan” next to.
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The automotive group Volkswagen has further escape unscathed in sales in the US. The US sales of the brand with the VW logo plummeted by 10.4 percent yoy. In March, Volkswagen came to the United States 26 914 cars sold, as the DAX company announced.
Thus, although the decline was not quite as clear as in the previous month, however in March also two selling days this year had more , When this effect out, reinforced the downward trend in US sales.
In particular, the Golf and Passat sales slumped significantly. But even the best seller Jetta US dealers less models were going. When city Tiguan SUV however, unit sales continued to rise.
For the full year, sales fell so in comparison with the corresponding period last year by 12.5 per cent so far. It went better in March at the VW subsidiary Audi superclass. The Ingolstadt sold 18,392 cars and thus 7.5 percent more than a year earlier. In the first three months they were thus 4.6 percent up on the sales figures of the previous year.
For Porsche it was also better than the core VW brand. The sports car maker was in March with 4323 vehicles sell 0.7 percent more cars in the US than a year ago. Buy
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Overall, a glance at the current sales data, as strong market positions in the United States are established: local manufacturers such as Ford or General Motors (GM) regularly deliver a lot more car than the car maker from Germany. At Ford, there were 254,711 vehicles last. In order for the US manufacturer has sold nearly ten times the amount of cars in
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The “Big Three” in the US market – GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler – were due to good weather and two additional selling days in March while selling more cars, the growth fell but less impressive than expected auto experts. This sparked fears that the already long lasting ascent paragraph could come to an end soon.
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For Ford vehicles were found about 8 percent more buyers. Especially pickups and SUVs were in demand. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles reported a sales increase of 8 percent to 213 187 also some units. It was the highest sales in March for ten years. General Motors (GM) lagged with less than 1 percent more units sold, a total of 252,128 pieces, afterwards.
About the best March in the company’s history, Nissan rejoiced. The Japanese sold 163,559 vehicles, an increase of nearly 13 percent. Again boosted called crossovers and SUVs to the business. For a Honda car is 9.4 percent more customers than last year opted. contrast, Toyota posted a drop in sales by 2.7 percent to 219,842 vehicles. In total, the sales are expected to have 1.7 million vehicles achieved in ten years in the US market According to experts in March, the highest level.
Source: n-tv.de
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