Million-Selling Volkswagen Golf Continues Success Story

Roughly 1.16 million Volkswagen Golf , Volkswagen Jetta sold worldwide in 2007

Wolfsburg, February 7, 2008 – The Volkswagen brand sold roughly 1.16 million vehicles from the Golf family comprising the Golf hatchback, Golf Variant, Golf Plus and Jetta, to customers all over the world in 2007, representing a year-on-year rise of 8.2 percent. The classic hatchback version of the Golf remained the Volkswagen brand’s best-selling model with 586,100 units delivered to customers, a rise of 5.5 percent.

Highlights:
- Golf hatchback remains Volkswagen’s best-selling model with 568,100 units delivered to customers, a rise of 5.5 percent
- Marked increase in sales in North America, Brazil and key European markets

"The Golf is classless and offers top quality – so it is ideally suited to every target group. Moreover, its value stability remains a very attractive factor," Detlef Wittig, Executive Vice President, Group Sales and Marketing, commented. There was a very sharp rise of 45.8 percent in deliveries to the USA, the largest overseas market, with sales of the Golf hatchback version totaling 41,800 units. High rises were also achieved in Canada (+ 66.3 percent to 15,800 units) and Brazil (+55.6 percent to 13,400 units). Respectable growth was also reported on the large European markets of France (+ 11.8 percent to 32,700 units), United Kingdom (+ 7.7 percent to 67,100 units) and Italy (+ 7.5 percent to 48,500 units). As a result, the Volkswagen classic again made a crucial contribution to the brand’s record-breaking sales of 3.66 million vehicles worldwide (+ 7.8 percent).

Despite very difficult conditions, Germany remained the undisputed top market for the Golf, where the hatchback version braved the general trend in vehicle deliveries on the German market (-9.1 percent) with sales totaling some 123,200 units (-5.9 percent). In Europe, Volkswagen delivered 420,000 units to customers, 2.8 percent up on the previous year. This was in part attributable to high growth on Central and East European markets such as Romania (+67.4 percent to 5,400 vehicles), Russia (+76.5 percent to 4,500 units) and Poland (+45.1 percent to 4,500 vehicles).

Source: Volkswagen

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