INGOLSTADT, Germany - AUDI AG delivered around 80,300 cars worldwide in August, an increase in sales of some 22 percent on the prior-year month. Sales figures for the first eight months of the year were around 18 percent higher than for the same period of 2009. Audi achieved growth in all major markets in August, posting new record figures in the United States and China. Sales in Germany and in the rest of Europe as a whole also went up significantly.

“We are experiencing a considerable rise in demand in Germany”, commented Peter Schwarzenbauer, Member of the Board of Management for Marketing and Sales at AUDI AG. “For the launch of the Audi A1 we recorded the highest-ever number of visitors during the first weekend. Over the next few months, we are expecting sales to go up further on our domestic market.” When the Audi A1 hit the German market at the end of August, over 200,000 visitors came to experience the car at Audi’s dealerships.

On its domestic German market Audi sold 15,394 cars in August – 9.2 percent more than in the prior-year period. For Europe as a whole, sales figures went up by some 5.4 percent to around 38,900 cars.

Source: http://www.audiusanews.com/newsrelease.do?id=1927