Audi AG elated with best first-quarter vehicle sales in company history

09 April 2008

Ingolstadt, Mumbai: Audi says the first three months of 2008 have been the most successful first quarter in its history.

From January to March 2008, the brand with the four rings achieved worldwide sales of 251,268 cars, 1.3 per cent more than in the first three month of last year.

Audi AG develops and produces cars for the luxury car segment worldwide. The company achieved its twelfth consecutive record year in 2007, with 964,151 cars sold.

Audi produces vehicles in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm (Germany), Gyor (Hungary), Changchun (China) and Brussels (Belgium). At the end of 2007, production of Audi A6 started in Aurangabad, India.

Audi sales in the first three months were up most markedly in the Asia-Pacific region, where the company sold 39,572 cars, an increase of 20.9 per cent.

In China (including Hong Kong), the second-largest foreign market after the United Kingdom, Audi sold 30,425 cars, a rise of 25 per cent. The company also experienced impressive growth in Eastern Europe, where sales figures rose 15.3 per cent above the first-quarter results of last year with 10,987 cars sold by the end of March.