Imelda Labbé, Volkswagen Board Member for Gross sales, Advertising and marketing and After Gross sales: “The supply figures present that we’re heading in the right direction as a model and that our vehicles are effectively obtained by our prospects. We count on the market surroundings to stay difficult in 2024. However with our revised and enticing product portfolio, we’re in the precise place.”
All-electric ID. fashions in excessive demand worldwide
Volkswagen was capable of improve gross sales of its absolutely electrical automobiles by 21.1 per cent to about 394,000 items in 2023. The biggest markets for all-electric vehicles for the Volkswagen model – in absolute figures – had been China, Germany, the US, the UK, Sweden, France, Norway and Belgium.
In Germany, for instance, about 30,000 ID.4 fashions had been delivered (+ 62.9 per cent). Volkswagen’s first absolutely electrical ‘world automobile’ was additionally effectively obtained within the US: about 38,000 examples of the ID.4 had been delivered to prospects right here, which corresponds to a rise of 84.2 per cent in comparison with 2022. The ID.3 all-electric compact automobile was notably in style in China: greater than 75,000 had been delivered in 2023 there – a over 200 per cent improve in comparison with the earlier 12 months.
T-Roc as soon as once more best-selling Volkswagen SUV in Europe
The SUV development additionally continued in 2023: the share of SUVs in complete Volkswagen deliveries stays very excessive at 54.2 per cent (+ 14.9 per cent in comparison with 2022). Within the US, greater than 81 per cent of Volkswagen vehicles offered had been SUVs. In Europe, the T-Roc stays Volkswagen’s best-selling SUV: the mannequin set a brand new supply document in Germany, the UK, Spain and Turkey.
Forty-eight years and 20 million items after its debut, the Polo stays one of the profitable vehicles in its class: in Brazil, greater than 110,000 of them had been handed over to prospects, which is a brand new document. In Germany, the variety of Polo deliveries was about 33,500 – 44.1 per cent greater than within the earlier 12 months.
Volkswagen begins the brand new 12 months with quite a few newly launched bestsellers
Volkswagen is anticipating dynamic progress in demand as a result of new editions of a few of its most vital bestsellers: deliveries of the brand new generations of the Passat and Tiguan in addition to the visually and technically enhanced T-Cross will start within the first quarter of 2024. The ID.4 and ID.5 additionally not too long ago obtained a serious replace with a very new working idea and new drive system. The brand new ID.7 Tourer, the property model of the all-electric prime mannequin ID.7, may also launch this 12 months. To satisfy the excessive demand for SUVs, Volkswagen is planning to supply a totally electrical SUV within the high-volume A-segment from 2026.
One other spotlight for 2024 can be that, 50 years after the primary Golf, Volkswagen is presenting the subsequent evolution of its eighth era, which affords spectacular visible refinements, new help programs and drive programs in addition to next-generation infotainment and software program. Pre-sales are scheduled to start out in spring 2024.