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Volkswagen cuts European sales target by 140,000 vehicles, report says

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Volkswagen cuts European sales target by 140,000 vehicles, report says

Volkswagen has cut its internal 2012 sales target for western Europe by up to 140,000 vehicles, a German daily said, citing the group's works council head.

"The VW group is tentatively selling more cars this year than last year. But it is correct that it will be somewhat less than what was originally planned," Bernd Osterloh told Handelsblatt in a report published today.

"We are talking however of a maximum of 140,000 cars," he added.

The estimate is lower than the 250,000 figure reported last month by Handelsblatt, which the company had denied.

Volkswagen Group, Europe's biggest carmaker, aims to sell 10 million vehicles by 2018, up from the 8.36 million recorded last year.

Handelsblatt said the company was also slashing its planned production capacity this year.

Citing a copy of a VW internal capacity planning report, the daily said management board member Michael Macht, in charge of production, had estimated up to 9.4 million vehicles would be built this year, down from the previous estimate of 9.7 million vehicles.

The figure includes those made by truck units MAN and Scania.

Volkswagen said last month it did not expect a significant rebound in the European auto market over the next one to two years.

Osterloh said the company would build more of the last generation of Golfs and would add additional shifts through the end of this year to continue pumping sixth-generation Golf compacts into the European market.

"Because we are able to build the old Golfs up to the end of the year parallel to producing the new generation, we can therefore fight the price wars without putting the new Golf under pressure," Osterloh said.

Volkswagen marketing board member Christian Klinger told Handelsblatt the orders for the new Golf were above the company's expectations.

"The level of new orders is definitely pleasing," he added.

The seventh-generation Golf will go on sale across Europe next month.

VW Group sales in in western Europe, excluding Germany, fell 5.8 percent to 1.25 million in the first eight months, the automaker said. In Germany, deliveries increased 4.1 percent to 792,300.
 



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