Due to the lack of chips, the car company can currently only build a few vehicles.
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Wolfsburg The Volkswagen Group is coming under increasing pressure in terms of sales, mainly because of the lack of chips. In November, the global deliveries of the largest European carmaker slipped by 31.5 percent compared to the same month last year to 616,300 vehicles, as the Dax company announced on Friday in Wolfsburg. This means that there is now also a year-on-year decline of 1.7 percent to 8.17 million vehicles.
So far, VW had been in the black compared to the same period last year due to the corona-related very weak performance in 2020 despite a few very weak months. For the year as a whole, VW is still aiming for deliveries of around nine million vehicles after 9.3 million last year.
In November, the core brand VW Passenger Cars as well as Audi and Skoda each delivered a good third fewer cars than a year earlier. At Seat it was a minus of a good fifth, as was the case with light commercial vehicles.
Of the major brands, only Porsche was able to keep the figures more or less stable with a small minus of 0.3 percent. The sports car manufacturer is the group’s profitability pearl. The heavy commercial vehicle brands MAN and Scania recorded declines in the mid to high single-digit percentage range.
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