{"id":3466,"date":"2012-07-13T17:13:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2012-07-13T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:13:10","slug":"volkswagen-van-sales-up-3-7-big-vans-up-38-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3466","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen Van Sales Up 3.7%, Big Vans Up 38.7%"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Volkswagen

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

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is continuing<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

In the first half of this year, VW delivered 270,000 commercial vehicles of all sizes<\/a>, up by 3.7% from 260,300 during the first half of 2011. One of the biggest growers is the\u00a0Amarok pick-up<\/a> — global deliveries of the big 4×4 went up by 24.8 per cent to 36,400 vehicles (January – June 2011: 29,100).<\/p>\n

Worldwide deliveries of Volkswagen’s large van<\/a>, the Crafter<\/a>, rose by 38.7 per cent to 23,900 vehicles (January – June 2011: 17,200). \u00a0Deliveries of the medium-sized<\/a> 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<\/a> were down by 2.5 per cent to 78,100 vehicles (January – June 2011:\u00a0 80,100).<\/p>\n

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). \u00a0Deliveries 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 \u2013 June 2011: 158,400).<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volkswagen has reported an overall 3.7% increase in commercial vehicle deliveries in the first half of this year, with the Amarok pick-up and Crafter large van performing especially strongly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1108,1389,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466"}],"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=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}