\u201cIn the third quarter too we continued to profit from the fundamental quality of our vehicles with very good sales. Furthermore, the positive bottom- line trend is being supported by strict discipline on cost and expenditure, high used vehicle residual values and growth in the after-sales business\u201d explained Michael Obrowski, Brand Management Board Member for Finance and IT at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.<\/p>\n
The order backlog at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles remained high across all model lines in the third quarter. For the fourth quarter the brand has therefore put in place an ambitious programme in production in order to further reduce the order backlog and the resultant waiting times for customers.<\/p>\n
Lars Krause, Brand Management Board Member for Sales and Marketing at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles explained: \u201cDespite the year-on-year decline in deliveries, I am pleased about VWCV\u2019s strong market position in almost all markets. We are doing well in our commercial vehicle business and especially in the important German market remain clear market leaders with appreciable gains in market share.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the third quarter, VWCV celebrated with the pick-up Amarok the second world premiere this year. Along with the all-electric ID. Buzz, it was the highlight at the IAA Transportation show in Hannover in September.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven before the launch at our dealerships, we\u2019ve been able since the start of advance sales to already sell more than 20,000 ID. Buzz\u201d, said a delighted Krause. \u201cWith their availability in the showrooms, we are now expecting a further surge in demand. And the Amarok successor, with sales due to start before the end of the year, is likewise in the starting blocks. Both vehicles increase the attractiveness of our brand enormously!\u201d<\/p>\n
Added focus on the development of autonomous driving<\/strong><\/p>\n In the development of the SDS (self-driving system) technology for its autonomously driving vehicles, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles will in future be working with a another partner, an announcement about which will be made shortly. As a consequence of this strategic decision Volkswagen is not investing any further in Argo AI and is withdrawing as a shareholder from the company. The plans to have MOIA providing a first customer offering using self-driving ID. Buzz vehicles in Hamburg as of 2025 are unchanged by this decision. \u201cThis step is also being accompanied by increased collaboration within the Group for developing highly automated and autonomous driving\u201d, explains Christian Senger, who has been appointed Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Brand Management Board Member responsible for MaaS\/TaaS and AD (Mobility and Transport as a Service; Autonomous Driving). Through this appointment too the brand and the Group are underlining the importance of future mobility offerings, including autonomous driving.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Operating profit up after nine months by a good 300 million to 356 million euros Turnover up to 7.956 billion euros (prior year: 7.3 billion euros). Market shares up, in some cases significantly, despite drop","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pendiente_categorizar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-comerciales.es\/comunicacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-comerciales.es\/comunicacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-comerciales.es\/comunicacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-comerciales.es\/comunicacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-comerciales.es\/comunicacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-comerciales.es\/comunicacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7447,"href":"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-comerciales.es\/comunicacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions\/7447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-comerciales.es\/comunicacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-comerciales.es\/comunicacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-comerciales.es\/comunicacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-comerciales.es\/comunicacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}