VW '08 China sales top 1 mln units, up 12.5%

Shanghai, January 12 (Gasgoo.com) Volkswagen AG, the German-based world leading automaker, announced that its vehicle sales in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau hit 1.02 million in 2008, up 12.5% compared with 910,491 units sold a year earlier.

Sales for the Volkswagen brand increased 8.2 percent to 844,491 units while the Audi brand grew 17 percent to 101,996 units and the Skoda brand more than doubled the sales to 59,284 units.

Sales of its premier luxury Bently sedans and Lamborghini super sport cars were 518 and 117 units respectively.

FAW VW and Shanghai VW, the two joint ventures of Volkswagen in China, overtook its competitor Shanghai GM to top the 2008 car sales rankings in China with 512,973 and 501,018 vehicles sold each.

The total sales for passenger vehicles in China rose 7.4% to 6.43 million units in 2008, according to statistics released by China Passenger Car Association.