Volkswagen hails record sales of 6.2 million vehicle in 2007
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Volkswagen, the biggest European carmaker, sold a record 6.2 million vehicles last year owing to strong demand in eastern Europe, Brazil and China, VW said Monday.
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Porsche AG, Europe&#39;s most profitable carmaker, said it&#39;s ``confident&#39;&#39; about growth in the current fiscal year after four-month sales rose 4 percent as the company sold more 911 sports cars and Cayenne sport-utility vehicles.
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German car maker Volkswagen  said on Tuesday its sales in the United States fell 7.2 percent year-on-year in September to 20,082 vehicles.
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BMW, the German automaker, said its profit rose 28 percent in 2006, helped by strong car sales and a one-time gain from the sale of a stake in Rolls-Royce, the British aircraft engine manufacturer. The company, which is based in Berlin, said it was seeking approval from its board to buy back up to 10 percent of its stock and said it would increase dividends. Net profit climbed to 2.87 billion euros ($3.77 billion) from 2.24 billion euros the previous year.
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DaimlerChrysler AG's commercial vehicles division sold nearly 30 percent more trucks and buses through November 2004 than in all of last year, the German-American automaker said Thursday.
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Swedish heavy lorry maker Volvo AB said its net profit leapt 24.5 percent in 2006 to 16.318 billion kronor (1.8 billion euros, 2.4 billion dollars), on the back of record sales.
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DaimlerChrysler AG (DCXGn.DE) said on  Friday U.S. vehicle sales rose 5 percent in November from a  year earlier, when the automaker scaled back big discounts.
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Toyota Motor Corp. edged past General Motors Corp. to become the world's biggest automaker by sales volume in 2006, leading industry paper Automotive News said.
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Third-quarter operating profit at Volkswagen  rose more than 50 percent thanks to resurgent earnings at its core VW brand after the world's fourth-largest carmaker cut thousands of jobs last year.
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Volkswagen's  Audi  premium unit aims to raise sales in the United States to 200,000 vehicles by 2015 from last year's 90,000, Audi's sales and marketing boss told a German newspaper.
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German car maker Mercedes-Benz said Tuesday that the performance of its newest C class line had pushed 2007 sales to a record 1.29 million vehicles despite a slumping domestic market.
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Toyota said today that it sold 2.34 million vehicles globally in the third quarter, running neck-and-neck against General Motors, which sold 2.38 million vehicles.
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Western European car sales jumped by 7.7 percent on the year in December, due to higher demand in Germany, the Association of European Auto Manufacturers said Friday.
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DETROIT - US auto sales rose 2.2 percent in October as Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. led Asian automakers to a record 35.
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Passenger vehicle sales should  strengthen nearly 20 percent by the end of the decade to about  70 million vehicles annually, spurred by growth not only in  developing markets but in the United States and Europe, the  chief executive of BMW AG BMWG.DE said on Monday.
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Germany's BMW , the world's  biggest luxury carmaker, said on Thursday that sales in Asia  rose 13.8 percent in 2006 to a record 126,949 vehicles and  reiterated its goal to hit sales of 150,000 by next year.
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General Motors Corp.  said on  Friday that it sold 2.4 million vehicles globally in the second  quarter, a 8.7 percent increase over the previous quarter.