Archive for August, 2011

According to CarAdvice.com, Volkswagen’s R&D (research and development) budget beat those of other vehicle giants. Here’s how the R&D budgets broke down in 2010:

Volkswagen: $9.2 billion

Toyota: $8.5 billion

GM: $7 billion

Chrysler: $6.5 billion

Honda: $5.7 billion

This is great news for Volkswagen drivers. VW has been raising some eyebrows recently with its tremendous growth strategy, and an aggresive investment into R&D will only drive innovation for the future.

Volkswagen’s strategy of aggressively going after the US market must be paying off big time for Volkswagen. The company released a July sales figures and they are impressive. In a single month of July alone - Volkswagen sold over 29,000 vehicles (~22% more than previous year). This marks a record sales month since 2002.

Some noteworthy details:

• 1 in every 4 vehicles sold was a clean diesel TDI engine vehicle
• Best Golf sales since 2008
• 62% increase in Jetta sales since last year

Volkswagen sales are going up…