Audi is happy to announce their recent August sales were the best ever in the company’s long and prolific history.
Compared to August 2014, the company delivered last month 2.7% more cars, bringing the grand total to 128,650 vehicles even though orders from China dropped by 4.1% while deliveries in Russia collapsed by 15.4%. The good news for the company with the four ring logo is those poor results were offset by the European market where deliveries jumped by 6.9% while in the Americas sales rose by 10%.
Since the start of the year, Audi sold 3.4% more cars compared to January – September 2015, thus delivering a total of approximately 1,777,100 units.
United States posted some solid results last month when 18,794 cars were sold, representing a hike of almost 10% while Brazil posted a massive 20.3% increase to 1,410 units. As for Mexico, they were also big fans of Audi as sales went up by 14.9% to 1,258 units.
Moving to Western Europe, Audi enjoyed a 7.7% increase thanks to boosted sales of the A6, A7, Q7 and A8 which combined accounted for about 7,250 cars. Germany was a solid market for Audi in August as sales increased by 13.5% to 15,394 cars.
Sales for AUDI AG | In August | Cumulative | ||||
2015 | 2014 | Change from 2014 | 2015 | 2014 | Change from 2014 | |
World | 128,650 | 125,308 | +2.7% | 1,177,100 | 1,138,680 | +3.4% |
Europe | 45,800 | 42,822 | +6.9% | 533,050 | 516,826 | +3.1% |
– Germany | 15,934 | 14,034 | +13.5% | 186,657 | 176,340 | +5.9% |
– UK | 5,598 | 5,405 | +3.6% | 104,792 | 100,614 | +4.2% |
– France | 3,702 | 3,665 | +1.0% | 39,532 | 39,059 | +1.2% |
– Italy | 3,278 | 3,196 | +2.6% | 36,170 | 33,966 | +6.5% |
– Spain | 2,379 | 2,204 | +7.9% | 31,726 | 28,415 | +11.7% |
– Russia | 2,201 | 2,601 | -15.4% | 16,359 | 23,167 | -29.4% |
USA | 18,794 | 17,101 | +9.9% | 130,063 | 116,066 | +12.1% |
Mexico | 1,258 | 1,095 | +14.9% | 8,984 | 8,320 | +8.0% |
Brazil | 1,410 | 1,172 | +20.3% | 11,548 | 8,449 | +36.7% |
China (incl. Hong Kong) | 45,196 | 47,145 | -4.1% | 361,316 | 364,090 | -0.8% |