The Chinese market has become one of the world's leading premium markets
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- Premium brands have made great progress in the Chinese market in 2013. They recorded increases of between 11% and 67% on an overall market growth of 15.7% last year.
- Audi remains the leading Premium brands in China, with a record volume of 491 989 vehicles in 2013 (+21.2% compared to 2012), including 419 003 units produced on site. BMW has sold 390 713 vehicles in 2013 (+19.7%) with 214 978 products on site. It should be noted that out of this total 28 613 sales were generated by the Mini brand. Mercedes has sold 228 000 vehicles in 2013 (+11%), with 129 982 produced locally. Porsche has sold 37 425 vehicles in China last year (19.9%), all of which were imported from Germany. German premium brands represent 88% of the Chinese Premium market.
- The largest increases were recorded in non-German Premium brands: Volvo saw its sales increase by 45.6% in 2013, to 61 146 units, Infiniti has seen its sales rise by 54% (17 108 units) and Cadillac by 66.6% (50 000 units). Including Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Maserati and Lamborghini, this is a volume close to 1.3 million Premium vehicles that were sold in the Chinese market last year (7.5% of the global Chinese market) . This market has become in a few years one of the world's top three Premium markets, with Europe (2.5 million units representing 20% of the global market) and the United States (1.9 million units representing 12.5% of the global market).
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In 2013 the PSA group sold 2.82 million PC+LUV
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In 2013 the GM group sold 9.7 million PC+LUV
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Record sales in 2013 for the Jaguar Land Rover division of Tata Group
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- Record sales in 2013 for the Jaguar Land Rover division of the Tata group. The groups sale figures throughout the whole Tata Motors group is not yet known, but the Jaguar Land Rover division of the Indian group has reached a new sales record in 2013 : 425 000 vehicles worldwide, representing an increase of 19% compared to 2012. Land Rover sold 348 000 vehicles (+15%) and Jaguar 77 000 vehicles (+42%).
- The division benefited from the enthusiasm generated by the Range Evoque(which surfs on the success trend of SUVs), while Jaguar has benefited from the successful launch of the Roadster F-Type successor to the legendary E-Type.
- Last year, sales of Jaguar and Land Rover went up by 30% in the Asia-Pacific region, 21% in North America and 14% in the UK.
- The year 2013 has been very positive for both brands (Ford bought in 2008 by Tata Motors) thanks to continued strong demand for premium vehicles in the world, including SUVs.
- The year 2014 should mark the arrival of the coupe range Jaguar F-Type, and the new Land Rover Discovery. The past two years have been full of novelties since they launched successively new generations of Range Rover and Range Rover Sport.
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In 2013 the VW group sold 9.5 million PC+LUV
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- The Volkswagen Group sold 9.5 million vehicles worldwide in 2013 (not including MAN and Scania heavyweights), which represents an increase of 4.7% compared to 2012.
- The German group, which included both general brands (Volkswagen, Seat, Skoda) and Premium (Audi, Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti) remained the third largest manufacturer last year, behind the Japanese Toyota group and American General-Motors group.
- With the exception of Skoda (-2% to 0.92 million units), all the group's brands contributed to the general growth: Volkswagen (+3.4% to 5.93 million units), Audi (+8.3% to 1.58 million units), Seat (+10.6% to 0.35 million units), Porsche (15% to 0.16 million units). Concerning the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles division is has stayed stable (+0.3%).
- The Volkswagen Group has performed well in Europe (-0.9% in a global market down by -1.9%), but has acquired most of its growth in Asia, where it sold 3.64 million vehicles (+14. 7% compared to 2012), of which 3.27 million in China (+16.4%), in China the group has a market share of 17%.
- The German group has seen its sales fall by 12.6% in Brazil and grow by 2.6% in the United States, two major countries for the group that has been present there since the early 50s.
