L-R, Volkswagen Caddy, Amarok, Transporter & Crafter

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is continuing to deliver rising sales across global markets, even if sales in Western Europe are relatively flat, according to the latest figures released by the German company.

In the first half of this year, VW delivered 270,000 commercial vehicles of all sizes, up by 3.7% from 260,300 during the first half of 2011. One of the biggest growers is the Amarok pick-up — global deliveries of the big 4×4 went up by 24.8 per cent to 36,400 vehicles (January – June 2011: 29,100).

Worldwide deliveries of Volkswagen’s large van, the Crafter, rose by 38.7 per cent to 23,900 vehicles (January – June 2011: 17,200).  Deliveries of the medium-sized T5 Transporter increased by 1.3 per cent to 81,500 units (January – June 2011: 80,500), while worldwide deliveries of the Caddy small van were down by 2.5 per cent to 78,100 vehicles (January – June 2011:  80,100).

In Western Europe, deliveries from January to June 2012 went up by 1.9 per cent to 144,800 vehicles (January – June 2011: 142,100).  Deliveries in Eastern Europe to the end of June rose by 29.2 per cent to 21,000 vehicles (January – June 2011: 16,300) and vehicle deliveries in Europe as a whole increased by 4.7 per cent to 165,800 units (January – June 2011: 158,400).

Unsurprisingly, Germany was the highest-volume European market for Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, showing an increase of 5.5 per cent to 63,000 customer deliveries (January – June 2011: 59,700).