The Volkswagen model considerably elevated its deliveries final yr, with: round 4.87 million autos handed over to clients worldwide. The figures exceeded the earlier yr’s numbers in all areas. In whole, the rise in deliveries was 6.7 per cent. Demand for electrical mobility additionally grew: Volkswagen handed over about 394,000 absolutely electrical autos to clients worldwide in 2023, which corresponds to a rise of 21.1 per cent in comparison with the earlier yr.
Imelda Labbé, Volkswagen Board Member for Sales, Marketing and After Sales: “The delivery figures show that we are on the right track as a brand and that our cars are well received by our customers. We expect the market environment to remain challenging in 2024. But with our revised and attractive product portfolio, we are in the right position.”
All-electric ID. fashions in excessive demand worldwide
Volkswagen was capable of improve gross sales of its absolutely electrical autos by 21.1 per cent to about 394,000 models in 2023. The largest markets for all-electric vehicles for the Volkswagen model – in absolute figures – have been China, Germany, the US, the UK, Sweden, France, Norway and Belgium.
In Germany, for instance, about 30,000 ID.4 fashions have been delivered (+ 62.9 per cent). Volkswagen’s first absolutely electrical ‘world car’ was additionally effectively acquired within the US: about 38,000 examples of the ID.4 have been delivered to clients right here, which corresponds to a rise of 84.2 per cent in comparison with 2022. The ID.3 all-electric compact automotive was notably fashionable in China: greater than 75,000 have been delivered in 2023 there – a over 200 per cent improve in comparison with the earlier yr.
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 whole Volkswagen deliveries stays very excessive at 54.2 per cent (+ 14.9 per cent in comparison with 2022). In the US, greater than 81 per cent of Volkswagen vehicles offered have 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 models after its debut, the Polo stays one of the vital profitable vehicles in its class: in Brazil, greater than 110,000 of them have been handed over to clients, which is a brand new document. In Germany, the variety of Polo deliveries was about 33,500 – 44.1 per cent larger than within the earlier yr.
Volkswagen begins the brand new yr with quite a few newly launched bestsellers
Volkswagen is anticipating dynamic development in demand as a result of new editions of a few of its most essential 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 lately acquired a serious replace with a very new working idea and new drive system. The new ID.7 Tourer, the property model of the all-electric high mannequin ID.7, may also launch this yr. To meet the excessive demand for SUVs, Volkswagen is planning to supply a completely electrical SUV within the high-volume A-segment from 2026.
Another spotlight for 2024 shall be that, 50 years after the primary Golf, Volkswagen is presenting the subsequent evolution of its eighth technology, which presents spectacular visible refinements, new help methods and drive methods in addition to next-generation infotainment and software program. Pre-sales are scheduled to begin in spring 2024.