(April 17, 2018) WOLFSBURG — The Volkswagen Group recorded its best ever delivery result for a single month in March. The Group also finished the first quarter with an all-time record. The 1.04 million, deliveries in March were 5.3 percent higher than the prior-year month. Over 2.6 million vehicles were handed to customers in the first quarter of the year. up 7.4 percent.

“The first-quarter results confirm the attractiveness of our products. However, this good performance does not mean we can let up in our efforts; instead we must continue to strengthen customers’ trust in our brands and products in the second quarter as well," Fred Kappler, head of Group Sales at Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, said.

The Group delivered over 1.1 million vehicles in Europe in the first quarter of 2018 (+4.1 percent). Group deliveries in March grew 1.2 percent to 479,900 new vehicles. 407,400 vehicles were handed over to customers in Western Europe in March, of which 130,100 units were delivered in the home market of Germany (-1.2 percent).

The Group handed over 221,000 vehicles in the North America region in the first three months, an increase of 3.4 percent. Just short of 83,900 customers in North America chose a vehicle from the Group in March, up 5.1 percent. The Group delivered 57,800 vehicles in the USA, the largest market in the region, in March, representing an increase of 13.0 percent.

The delivery trend in the South America region was also positive: customers took delivery of 128,700 new vehicles (+5.6 percent) in the first quarter of the year, of which 50,700 were delivered in March (+8.3 percent).