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Volkswagen Group delivers over 1 million vehicles in March

Over 2.6 million units delivered in first quarter of 2018

The Volkswagen Group recorded its best ever delivery result for a single month in March. The
Group also finished the first quarter with an all-time record. At 1.04 million, deliveries by the
Volkswagen Group in March were 5.3 percent higher than the prior-year month. Over 2.6
million vehicles were handed over to customers in the first quarter of the year (+7.4 percent).

The Group delivered over 1.1 million vehicles in Europe in the first quarter of 2018 (+4.1
percent). Group deliveries in March grew 1.2 percent to 479,900 new vehicles. 407,400 vehicles
were handed over to customers in Western Europe in March, of which 130,100 units were
delivered in the home market of Germany (-1.2 percent). 72,500, deliveries of new vehicles from
the Group in the markets of Central and Eastern Europe were 13.2 percent up on the same month
last year. From January to March the Group delivered 954,400 vehicles in Western Europe (+2.8
percent) and 188,900 units in Central and Eastern Europe (+11.4 percent).
The Group handed over 221,000 vehicles in the North America region in the first three months,
an increase of 3.4 percent. Just short of 83,900 customers in North America chose a vehicle from
the Group in March (+5.1 percent). The Group delivered 57,800 vehicles in the USA, the largest
market in the region, in March, representing an increase of 13.0 percent. The delivery trend in
the South America region was also positive: customers took delivery of 128,700 new vehicles
(+5.6 percent) in the first quarter of the year, of which 50,700 were delivered in March (+8.3
percent). Deliveries in the Brazilian market increased to 32,500 units in March, 11.0 percent
higher than the same month last year.
The Volkswagen Group continued on its growth path in the Asia-Pacific region in the first
quarter, delivering 1,090,200 new vehicles to customers there in the first quarter of 2018 – an
increase of 12.0 percent – of which 391,400 units (+9.6 percent) were handed over in March.
Deliveries in the Chinese market grew 10.6 percent in March,

Source : Volkswagen

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