Volkswagen India has announced its monthly sales performance for October 2016, selling 5534 units as compared to 3255 units sold in the corresponding month of the previous year.
Mr. Michael Mayer, Director, Volkswagen Passenger Cars India said, “We welcomed the festive cheer with the launch of Volkswagen’s made-for-India and made-in-India Ameo Diesel, expanding our product portfolio to a wider audience. With our recent launches, we are well on course to give customers even more reasons to visit the Volkswagen showrooms. We are confident in continuing to improve our performance in sales and service, in the coming months along with exciting new products on the anvil.”
Volkswagen attributes the increase in sales to a larger bouquet of product portfolio that the brand is now offering to the Indian audience combined with the growing demand this festive season.
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Volkswagen India launched the diesel variant of the Ameo compact sedan last month just before the Indian festivities began. The diesel Ameo has been priced at INR 6.27 Lakh ex-Mumbai for the 5-speed manual version. The 7-speed DSG auto variant of the car (1st in segment) is launched at a starting price of INR 8.41 Lakhs. The Ameo diesel gets the 1.5-litre 4-cylinder Diesel engine delivering 110PS of power. Transmission options include the first in segment 7-Speed automatic DSG gear box or the conventional 5-speed manual gear box.