{"id":3419,"date":"2012-06-19T19:18:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T19:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2012-06-19T19:18:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T19:18:37","slug":"volkswagen-commercial-vehicle-sales-up-3-5-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3419","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen Commercial Vehicle Sales Up 3.5% In 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Volkswagen

L-R, Volkswagen Caddy, Amarok, Transporter & Crafter<\/p><\/div>\n

Volkswagen proudly announced today that total sales in its commercial vehicle division were up by 3.5% for the year to date, but a quick look at the figures suggests that much of this is the result of the impact of its new Amarok pick-up model — a segment in which VW previously had no models.<\/p>\n

VW delivered 220,500 in the first five months of this year, 3.5% more than in the same period of 2011.\u00a0Amarok deliveries worldwide rose by 31.7 per cent to 30,500 vehicles (January – May 2011: 23,100). Deliveries of the Crafter large van<\/a> went up by 37.0 per cent to 19,800 vehicles (January – May 2011: 14,400). The T5 Series medium van<\/a> rose by 0.4 per cent to 66,300 deliveries (January – May 2011: 66,100), while worldwide deliveries of the Caddy small van<\/a> went down by 3.1 per cent to 63,200 vehicles (January – May 2011: 65,200).<\/p>\n

Deliveries of the Brand in Western Europe from January to May 2012 were up by 1.3 per cent, to 117,900 vehicles (January – May 2011: 116,400), while in Eastern Europe deliveries rose by a whopping 32.7% — but from a much lower base of just 13,100, taking this year’s total to 17,400.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, Germany was the strongest European market for the brand, with deliveries up by\u00a05.3 per cent to 50,800 \u00a0(January – May 2011: 48,200).<\/p>\n

Interestingly, sales outside Europe are flagging. The strongest region outside Europe was Latin America, where deliveries fell by 2.3% from 57,000 last year to 55,700 in the first five months of this year. Deliveries of the Saveiro model (a small pick-up not sold in Europe) were down by 10.3 per cent to 30,400 units (January – May 2011: 33,800), while the T2 (an antiquated predecessor to the T5 that’s still made in South America) was up by 0.4 per cent to 10,400 deliveries (January – May 2011: 10,350).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volkswagen reveals that sales of its commercial vehicle range are up 3.5% so far this year, but not all models are doing well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[586,1389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}