January 09, 2017 | INGOLSTADT, Germany

• Global sales up 3.8 percent under difficult conditions in key markets
• Sales chief Dietmar Voggenreiter: “Robust growth thanks to strong demand for new A4 and Q7 models. A4 is the market leader in Europe, Q7 exceeds 100,000 deliveries mark.”
• Sales of the Audi Sport R and RS family top 20,000 units for the first time

AUDI AG increased its global sales to around 1,871,350 automobiles in 2016, 3.8 percent more than in the previous record-breaking year 2015. During the ongoing, wide-ranging renewal of the model range, sales increased in all core regions: in Europe (+7.6%), in North America (+5.3%) with further growth in the plateaued U.S. market (+4%) and in Asia-Pacific (+0.5%). In all five of its largest individual markets, the four rings sold more automobiles than ever before. Worldwide, demand increased for the seventh year in a row since 2009. Compared with 949,729 customers in 2009, the company almost doubled its market success over this period.