Around 125,300 deliveries worldwide in August; increase of 5.6 percent
Sales chief Luca de Meo: “Demand remains on the up despite challenging market conditions”
Deliveries in North America doubled over past five years
Audi again maintained its path of growth worldwide in August: Sales rose 5.6 percent to around 125,300 automobiles. This brings the total number of customers who have chosen an Audi since the start of the year to around 1,138,700, an increase of 10.5 percent. The four rings grew particularly strongly in North America in August, increasing sales by 22.6 percent year on year.
“Worldwide demand for our automobiles continues to develop positively even if the economic environment in certain markets remains challenging. Regarding our deliveries total, we are confident of selling 1.7 million cars by the end of the year,” remarked Luca de Meo, Member of the Board of Management for Sales at AUDI AG. “As well as the A3 family*, the popular A6 derivatives* in particular and also the successful Q models* are providing steady growth rates.”
In August, most notably the Audi Q3* lifted the sales total with an increase of 40.0 percent compared with the same month of the previous year. There was lively demand for the compact SUV in the United Kingdom (+25.3%) and China, where sales of this model more than doubled. The Q3 has also been available in the U.S. market since the end of August and will further strengthen sales of Audi’s family of SUV models there.
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