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Strongest Sales Month on Record for Audi Australia
By source: Audi Australia Pty Ltd
Jul 3, 2009, 10:37
• Premium Audi brand continues to smash new records
• Growth of 23.4 percent contributes to record half year results
• Celebrating 100 year anniversary this month |
Audi has smashed all previous sales records in June 2009, selling 1,119 vehicles – an all-time record for the brand in its Australian history.
The result represents growth of 23.4 percent month-on-month.
Audi’s previous best-selling month was January 2009 with 1,081 retail sales.
Year-to-date, Audi is now an incredible 10 percent up on the same six month period to end-June 2008 with total sales of 5,611 vehicles, in a total market that is down by 16.1 percent.
This makes Audi the fastest-growing premium carmaker in Australia.
Audi’s managing director, Joerg Hofmann, has congratulated his team and the entire Audi retail network for the result, citing a strong product offering, clear strategic direction and an emphasis on achieving record results month after month as the key success factors.
“We are operating in a challenging environment at present, however the Audi team is incredibly focused on achieving results and showing profitable growth in a negative market,” Mr Hofmann said.
“We have worked hard, invested strategically for the long term, and we are 100 percent committed to the success of Audi in Australia. For this reason, we do not believe our brand has to take a step backwards simply because the market is down. We focus only on the future of the brand in Australia,” Mr Hofmann said.
“We’re proud of our record first half-yearly result and have no intention of slowing down in the next few months.
“In July, we celebrate our Centenary, and in August we open the world’s largest new Audi dealership at Victoria Park in Sydney. We are a successful brand for successful people and our record results are proof of this,” he added.
The A4, A5, Q5 and Q7 all strongly represented the Audi brand in June 2009.
In July, Audi will launch its new fuel-sipping TT 2.0 TDI (5.3 litres) and 1.8 TFSI (6.7 litres) models, along with the new A6 2.0 TDI (5.8 litres) and 2.7 TDI (6.4 litres). Each of these impressive new variants beat the Luxury Car Tax impost thanks to their low consumption of less than 7 litres per 100km.
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