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Strategic law-breaking pays off more often than not. In all seriousness, it shouldn't be much of a surprise given all the properties VW owns: Volkswagen, Audi,
by eganist 10y ago
Strategic law-breaking pays off more often than not.
In all seriousness, it shouldn't be much of a surprise given all the properties VW owns: Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley, SEAT, etc.
- seizethecheese 10y agoThe number in question is vehicles sold, so the only relevant brands here are Volkswagen and Audi, really. Toyota also has Lexus and Scion.
- nradov 10y agoNot any more, Scion was shut down as a failed experiment last year.
- tikhonj 10y agoThe cheaper European brands like Skoda and SEAT also likely have significant volume. Skoda, for example, sold over a million vehicles—a non-trivial 10% of VW group's total. Audi sold something like 1.8M, probably with better margins than Skoda, so it's certainly a more important brand, but SEAT and Skoda aren't trivial either. Just in terms of car sales, SEAT + Skoda ≈ Audi.
- usaphp 10y agoSeat and skoda are only popular in handful of small European countries, vw is popular around the globe.
- Shounak 10y agoSkodas are quite popular in India
- usaphp 10y agothere aren't many cars in India compared to US or even some small European countries.
- CydeWeys 10y agoThe brands that you are dismissing out of hand sell, in aggregate, several million vehicles per year worldwide. That definitely moves the needle.
- njharman 10y agoYou are ignorant. http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A995 http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A995 India 159m, USA 265m registered vehicles. India is the 6th largest producer of vehicles.
- usaphp 10y agoVast majority of those are 2 and 3 wheelers, we are not talking about those.
- monkmartinez 10y agoIf we could buy Seat and/or Skoda in the states, I bet they would sell rather well. Kia and Hyundai are no longer "bargain" vehicles as they were in the past.
- krakensden 10y agoSEAT does pretty well in Mexico.
- disiplus 10y agohttps://i.redditmedia.com/dMeUIv2q7ReJRwusmsvEO_n331WdcBEcIXPVESzTa9Q.png?w=807&s=33f794799bea4324078cab179d4a2ef3 https://i.redditmedia.com/dMeUIv2q7ReJRwusmsvEO_n331WdcBEcIX...
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoI'm interested you call SEAT and Skoda cheaper, I'd label them mid-market.
- richardwhiuk 10y agoSkoda as well - (a million cars a year)