While the French government has crisis talks about job losses at Peugeot, VW sales continue to soar. Worldwide sales for the first half of 2012 were up 8.9% to a nice round 4.5 million units.
Sales in central and eastern Europe were up 27.3% and sales in Germany rose 4.4%. Only Western Europe excluding Germany saw a fall of 5.7%. Sales in the USA were up by 22% and Asia saw a rise of 17.6% – to an incredible 2.8 million units.That means more than half of all VW group cars are now sold in Asia. That is why VW is the only “European” mainstream car manufacturer that is still doing well – it is not really European any more.
