VW overtakes Toyota in YTD worldwide sales
money.cnn.com/2015/07/28/investing/volkswagen...
money.cnn.comPosted Jul 28, 2015, 12:44 PM UTC
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money.cnn.comThis was one of the goals set.
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Well, this is what happens when you make cars people want and enjoy instead of letting a bunch of accountants run your company into the "middle segment."
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I think this has more to do with making cars in China for the exploding market there.
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Here's a report from VW on unit sales from January 2015, compared to January 2014. http://media.vw.com/release/919/
Every model decreased in sales volume, except for the Golf Mk 7 family which sold 145.3% more units in Jan. 2015 than it did in Jan. 2014.
(My guess is that this partly reflects a sales lull in 2014 since people knew the Mk 7 was coming and it was getting rave reviews from the automotive press.)
If this one month's sales is representative of YTD sales, then the Golf team at VW has a lot to be proud of.
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WHOOP! My little VeeDub is estatic!
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But they still won't bring back the Eurovan to the U.S. market.
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I bet because people who buy Toyota only buy one car every few decades. This is what happens when you make a product that never breaks and your newer models just keep rehashing the same product.
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I bet because people who buy Toyota only buy one car every few decades.
Decades? What are you on?
The vast, vast majority of people who buy ANY car buy a new one within 5 years. How many 1995 Carollas do you see? Not many. How many of those are the original owner? Almost zero.
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It was an exaggeration I admit. The new car every 5 years is an average and I believe Toyota owners would have a longer gap between new car purchases than that average figure. Of course this is just an opinion I don't have exclusive access to the truth.
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You're forgetting Toyota also includes Lexus, whose owners by and large trade up very, very often. Scion is in there too (in the US at least) which also don't have a particularly long ownership life on average.
I would put a 2015 Golf against a 2015 Corolla any day for reliability when both maintained properly. 2005? Sure, I'll go with the Toyota.
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Yes that is true about Lexus but their sales would be very small compared to the amount of Corollas and Camrys sold, no?
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This is why white goods have obsolescence built-in.
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They also like to come out with new useless technology every year to convince everyone their perfectly fine appliance is actually a giant piece of garbage because it can't post to your Facebook page.
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VW is killing it in China which is the world's fastest growing car market. While Toyota is no slouch in the Chinese market they are about a third of the sales of Volkswagen if I remember correctly.
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Interesting. Any idea which specific models do well there?
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Looks like they have 6 of the top twelve best selling vehicles currently
Interesting that the # 1 is a Toyota.
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Toyota won't do well in China in the mean time because of a strong anti-Japanese mindset there. Their country of origin is hurting them.
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Not sure if you're just trolling.. but thats not how it works. Car sales are like house sales, there's always someone moving to something else. Longevity may have been a strong suit while they were still built in Japan but I don't think it applies anymore in my experience.
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Not trolling just an opinion.
EDIT: I've worked at the Corolla manufacturing plant here in Canada and I can tell you it's still a Japanese ran facility. Quality is still held on that high pedestal above everything else.
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Fair enough. I would probably take a 20 year old Corolla over a 20 year old Jetta. Maybe.
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I wish they could break into the US market better.
It'd be interesting to see a sales heat map for the US. I live in a medium-size midwest university town and see VWs everywhere.
I live in Anchorage Alaska. Vw's all over the place.
Iowa?
Madison, WI
Ah, sounds like Iowa too, we have tons of VWs.
I think the US-market versions of the Jetta and Passat show they're going about it wrong though. They're cars that are supposed to be competitively priced and appeal to the mass market, but they achieve those goals by cutting out everything about the cars that make them German. Everything but the cost of parts.
If I wanted an econobox with drum brakes, torsion beam rear suspension, and an engine/transmission that were state of the art in 1994 I'd by a Chevy.
The sooner they move all of their transverse engine cars to the MQB platform, the better. If only they would put the CC on the MLB platform.
Well you'd have to, the Jetta doesn't have those things anymore.
http://www.vw.com/models/jetta/trims/2015/s-trim/section/specifications/
The new 1.8T engine, 4 disc brakes, and multilink suspension all come standard now.
ya ya ya
Well that's a relief, although mine is still showing the 115hp 2.slow as the standard engine.