Volkswagen hits 6 MILLION sales in 2017 – and almost 1 million Golfs

Volkswagen has  sold six million cars in 2017  – including almost one million Golfs – as the Dieselgate crisis does nothing to halt VW’s progress.

When the Dieselgate crisis engulfed Volkswagen two years ago, it looked, at one point, as if they would be on the brink of disaster.

But despite huge costs relating to ‘fixing’ cars, and buying them back, and all the other costs associated with their subterfuge, VW has been on a product and sales offensive ever since instead of on the back foot.

Not a day seems to go by without yet another press release from VW as they seek to get in to car buyers’ brains and reinvent themselves with new models, more SUVs and a big push in to electric cars. And it’s certainly paying off.

The dieselgate crisis which seemed to spur VW forward will see them deliver six million sales in 2017 – a new record – of more than 60 models at 50 plants in 14 countries to take their total sales since the war to over 150 million.

This year’s sales include almost one million for the Golf and over 700,000 for the new Tiguan, and VW’s production and logistics boss, Thomas Ulbrich, says the product offensive will continue with the whole VW range renewed in  the next few years.

By 2020 VW will have 19 SUVs in its lineup, and from 2020 VW will deliver a complete family of electric models starting with the I.D., I.D. Crozz and I.D. Buzz, planning to have one million BEVs on the road by 2025.

Dieselgate clearly held a silver lining for VW.