Volkswagen is going to sell more than 10 thousand of LCV in 2010

German producer Volkswagen plans to sell in the Russian market more than 10 thousand of light commercial vehicles in 2011 and among them 5 thousand vehicles will be models of T5 group. The manager of brand Volkswagen Commercial vehicles Russia, Michail Semenichin, informed about it AUTOSTAT agency during the second automotive conference for analysts and specialists of marketing �Market of commercial vehicles in Russia � results, players, instruments and forecasts�, which was held in Moscow. It should be reminded that by the results of 2010 the Russian sales of Volkswagen Commercial vehicles increased by 28% to 7227 units and the best year of brand was 2008, when it was sold 10,5 thousand of LCV.
By the words of Mr. Seminichin, the results of sales of Volkswagen Commercial vehicles in Russia for I quarter confirmed the forecasts of company for the whole 2011. So, in January-March the sales of light commercial vehicles Volkswagen increased 2,8 times to 2350 units in the Russian market. �Our sales grow more quickly than the market, as we foresaw it in our production-sales plans�, -said Mr. Semenichin. � �We increased our dealer network to achieve this aim and we used finance instruments for sales stimulating�.
Mr. Seminichin has also remarked that Volkswagen Commercial vehicles is going to sell not less than 1 thousand of Multivan vehicles this year and to keep the leadership in our country by sales of this model among exported markets. By his words, the SKD-assembly of Multivan is still implemented in Kaluga plant Volkswagen and it will be continued in the planned volumes, in spite of company�s aim to increase the production volumes of the mass model VW � Polo saloon car. �There are produced the most expensive versions Multivan Highline in the shorten volume in Kaluga plant � up to 50 cars a month. Kaluga cars have quite fixed configuration in differ from imported Multivan, which are delivered from the main plant of Hannover�, - remarked Mr. Seminichin. � �But the local assembly of Multivan permit to deliver vehicles to the dealers immediately, as the cars are always available�.