WESTERN EUROPE: NEW CAR SALES - Volkswagen buffeted by stiffening headwinds in March

摘要

The Volkswagen car brand, when judged from Acea's provisional March car sales numbers from West Europe's still fast recovering new car market, remains up against the ropes and is still taking some serious punishment. No more so than in Germany. Here Volkswagen's home sales in March dropped 6.3 per cent in a static market, pointing conceivably to a gruelling struggle to regain the confidence of Europe's new car buyers. In March, when West Europe's overall sales grew 5.2 per cent, sales of the Volkswagen brand dropped 2 per cent, bringing its sales shortfall to date to almost 1 per cent in an expanding overall car market.