The car manufacturer Volkswagen (VW) achieved a figure of 10.3 million vehicles sold in 2016. It is a historic record for the German brand that should place the German giant at the top of the car groups, ahead of its main Japanese competitor Toyota.
This historic performance comes as the Wolfsburg group is entangled in the case of the "Deiselgate", named after the scandal of rigging the polluting emissions of its vehicles. On this point, Vokswagen is in the process of paying a fine of nearly $ 4 billion to close the investigation opened by the US federal authorities, the same source said.
China and the United States are growing VW
The German group, including Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche, benefited from a rebound in sales, particularly in China and the United States for these three brands, with double-digit growth, according to Les Echos. These two pillars of car consumption "offset the decline in sales in Germany and Brazil," said the same source.
In total, the number of vehicles sold increased by 3.8% compared to 2015. The company's share rose by almost 0.8% to 147 euros on the stock market.
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