Volkswagen Group sales rise 4% on double-digit Audi, Porsche gains; VW brand slips 4:00 pm U.S. ET | June 3, 2013 Volkswagen Group of America's U.S. sales rose 4 percent in May as the Jetta and Passat each recorded its best May ever and the Audi luxury brand posted a 15 percent gain.... Read More »
VW sales fall as rivals dent Passat, Jetta demand 12:51 pm U.S. ET | May 1, 2013  Volkswagen of America officials blamed challenging conditions and competition in the mid-sized and compact sedan segments for a 10 percent drop in April sales for the VW brand, ending a streak of monthly sales gains that began in September 2010.... Read More »
VW hires McNabb from Maserati to extend U.S. sales surgeApril 19, 2013 06:01 CET  Volkswagen of America has hired Maserati North America CEO Mark McNabb, a former Nissan and GM sales executive, as its COO.... Read More »
VW hires McNabb from Maserati to extend U.S. sales surge 9:45 am U.S. ET | April 18, 2013  Volkswagen of America has hired Maserati North America CEO Mark McNabb, a former Nissan and General Motors sales executive, as its COO. McNabb, 51, will start at Volkswagen on May 1. He will report to CEO Jonathan Browning and oversee U.S. sales as VW continues an ambitious growth strategy.... Read More »
NUTS & BOLTS 1 million VW sales in the U.S. by 2018? Well ...April 5, 2013 06:01 CET Does Volkswagen still expect to hit its much talked-about target of 1 million sales in the United States by 2018? At the New York auto show last week, Jonathan Browning, CEO of VW Group of America, offered a roundabout answer that smelled, at best, like a maybe.... Read More »
Beetle marketing push in U.S. pays off for VWApril 4, 2013 06:01 CET  Volkswagen brand's U.S. vehicle sales rose 3 percent last month from a year earlier with most of the gains coming from one nameplate: the Beetle. The brand sold 37,704 vehicles in March, its third straight month of single-digit sales increases after a nearly two-year run of double-digit gains.... Read More »
Beetle marketing push pays off for VW 2:53 pm U.S. ET | April 2, 2013  Volkswagen brand's vehicle sales rose 3 percent last month from a year earlier with most of the gains coming from one nameplate: the Beetle. The brand sold 37,704 vehicles in March, its third straight month of single-digit sales increases after a nearly two-year run of double-digit gains.... Read More »
FINAL ASSEMBLY 1 million VW sales by 18? Well . . . 12:01 am U.S. ET | April 1, 2013 Does Volkswagen still expect to hit its much talked-about target of 1 million sales in the United States by 2018? At the New York auto show last week, Jonathan Browning, CEO of VW Group of America, offered a roundabout answer that smelled, at best, like a maybe.... Read More »
VW says U.S. workers to decide if they wish to unionizeMarch 28, 2013 10:18 CET  Volkswagen of America says workers at its Chattanooga plant in Tennessee will have the chance to decide whether they want to unionize and expects them to have a ''strong voice'' in operations at the factory.... Read More »
VW to drop Routan minivan from U.S. lineup 1:20 pm U.S. ET | March 27, 2013  Volkswagen plans to discontinue sales of the Routan, a rebadged Chrysler-built minivan VW has offered since 2008, the company's top U.S. executive said today. The Routan will be phased out this year, with most units destined for “internal purposes” such as VW's corporate fleet, said Jonathan Browning, CEO of Volkswagen Group of America.... Read More »
VW execs seek ways to shave sales costs 3:22 pm U.S. ET | Feb. 9, 2013  Volkswagen of America executives on Sunday plan to discuss with dealers a new plan for achieving an old goal: slashing the per-unit cost of selling cars.... Read More »
Germans A-OK in the USAFeb. 6, 2013 06:01 CET  German automakers expect to partially offset Europe's sales slump with another year of double-digit volume gains in the hot U.S. market. “We expect to grow by about 10 percent this year,” Mercedes-Benz USA CEO Steve Cannon told Automotive News Europe... Read More »
VW, Audi see more U.S gains in 2013 4:46 pm U.S. ET | Jan. 3, 2013  Strong sales of larger sedans and crossovers propelled Audi to a U.S. sales record in 2012 and Volkswagen division, aided by a full year of selling the redesigned Passat and Beetle, is on pace to reach its own milestone in 2... Read More »
VW's Browning: Political discord hampers U.S. auto investment 2:29 pm U.S. ET | Oct. 1, 2012  The United States needs to address rising debt and reduce political discord if it wants further investment from foreign companies such as Volkswagen AG, the top executive for Europe's biggest carmaker in the United States said today.... Read More »
Volkswagen's Road to 800K 12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug. 13, 2012  The Volkswagen brand's U.S. operations seeks to accomplish what few other mass-market brands have achieved here: nearly quadruple U.S. annual sales from 2008 to 2018. By 2018, the brand aims to sell 800,000 vehicles a year in the United States, a level never attainted in VW's 57 years of selling vehicles here.... Read More »
VW's U.S. expansion central to goal of being global No. 1Aug. 13, 2012 06:01 CET  The Volkswagen brand's U.S. operations seeks to accomplish what few other mass-market brands have achieved: nearly quadruple annual sales from 2008 to 2018. By 2018, the VW Group aims to sell 800,000 core-brand vehicles a year in the country and be the best-selling global automaker.... Read More »
VW needs boost in U.S. to reach global sales goalsJuly 7, 2012 06:01 CET  If Volkswagen AG Chairman Ferdinand Piech and his protégé, CEO Martin Winterkorn, hope to consolidate VW's position as the world's largest automaker by 2018, American consumers will need to buy a lot more new Volkswagens, Audis and Porsches.... Read More »
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