The Volkswagen Golf nameplate has been around since 1974 and is currently one of the most iconic model in the company’s history. In just over four decades, Volkswagen has produced over 34 million Golfs – the variation of body styles, hatchback, estate and Sportsvan included.
Just this year alone, however, the Wolfsburg-based automaker produced close to one million units of the Golf. “The Golf hatchback retained a commanding lead in its segment in Germany and Europe. The Golf estate recorded the strongest growth in the Golf family, at +11%, compared with the previous year”, Volkswagen said.
That said, the strongest growth for the Volkswagen brand in 2017 was actually contributed by the new Tiguan, with sales increasing by 40% compared to 2016. As it stands, over 730,000 units of the mid-size SUV have been shipped to customers globally. The two most popular markets are China and Germany.
Volkswagen is also leading the MPV segment with the Touran in Germany. Throughout 2017, close to 150,000 units of the popular people carrier were sold globally.
It’s unclear at this point whether the Volkswagen Group will sell more cars than Renault-Nissan. As of July 2017, Renault-Nissan sold more cars (5,268,079 units) than VW Group (5,115,900 units) in the same period.
The Volkswagen Group will soon announce its annual sales and revenue numbers, so let’s see if it is anywhere close to the targeted 10.9 million vehicles. In 2016, it sold a record 10.3 million cars worldwide, despite getting hit hard by the Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal.
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VW doing so well despite scandal. This means their cars are good. Pity Proton was too arrogant. VW wanted to marry Proton so bad. But Proton aksi.
Otherwise Proton will be a billion ringgit profit company now. And Malaysians can enjoy rebadged Tiguan and rebadged Polo.
We will be so proud to drive a Proton Tiguan.
P1 dunwan Dieselgate & DSGgate
But P1 want begging gate and bankrupgate
When new 2018 Polo/Virtus 1.0T will lunch in mesia…? Oledi selling well oversea…
Dieselgate or DSG gate, at least they are extremely successful, profitable and has A+ asset quality and shares. Proton is a bankrupt company, thats all.
Profit becoz cheating. Wheres the ethics in it? Nak cari duit oso must be fair to all.
Many 30 and 40 year old Golf’s still on the woad today. That is why it is the best selling model in the world today. An icon for reliability and power.