VW Tumbles 23% in December but Still up for 2006

Volkswagen of America, Inc. today announced calendar year 2006 sales results of 235,140 units. This represents a 4.9 percent increase over the 2005 total of 224,195 vehicles.

Overall brand growth can be attributed to gathering strength in Jetta and Passat models, and market acceptance of the revived Rabbit. December sales of 19,942 decreased 23.2 percent from December 2005 totals.

Year-to-date, the safe and sporty Jetta and Passat sedans were up 3.2 and 15 percent, respectively. The combination of fun-to-drive handling and performance, with class leading safety, at affordable “Volks-pricing” has driven the growth of these models.

The iconic New Beetle coupe ended the year with sales of 18,166 units, a healthy 6.8 percent over 2005 sales results.

chewy - 1/3/2007 7:07:01 PM

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Improvement is good.

DieselRules - 1/4/2007 2:00:20 AM

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VW's customers bought Audis in December?
That would explain 2 trends.

S4cabriofoxone - 1/4/2007 2:59:41 AM

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No, BMW customers bought Audis in December.

AmazingBimmer - 1/4/2007 11:52:18 AM

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wrong.. BMW up significantly. People just di not want to buy poorly engineered shit cars. i.e vw

S4cabriofoxone - 1/5/2007 1:11:28 AM

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Yup. They're such pieces of shit that Ferdinand Porsche was the founder. Oh, they're horrible! They're only the company most interwined with Porsche in the car industry!

Jesus fu¢king H. Christ, could you get rid of your act? You sound like an idiot! Actually, that's it. There's always a village idiot. You, my sad friend, will have the honorable position of AutoSpies Idiot. First ever, but I know there will be others to take your place.

thecar - 1/5/2007 11:23:38 AM

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du mass , it is not the engineering , it is the build quality put a big dent on VW sales. Most VW owners feel pissed after owning one bcoz it just breaks downs.

james_may - 1/5/2007 11:25:27 AM

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We can use the word 'shit' here a ... BMW driver says 'shit'

MercBasher - 1/4/2007 4:28:59 PM

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One of the great mysteries is how VW let its brand decay in the US. Here was one of the first great importers and it should have riden a wave of tremendous sales growth. Instead the brand is a third tier nothing.

AmazingBimmer - 1/4/2007 4:50:27 PM

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cause its crappy engineering with a dated and cheap fwd chassis. Audi to follow soon. cant fool enough of us with the nose heavy awd stuff.

S4cabriofoxone - 1/5/2007 1:11:54 AM

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Yeah, Audi will follow, even though they keep going up, month after month... right.