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Audi
said on Thursday that its total sales rose 2.7 percent last
month from a year earlier to a record 128,650 cars and
sport-utility vehicles, helped by double-digit growth in Germany
and the United States.
Its sales year-to-date were up 3.4 percent at a record 1.18
million.
Growth in August compared with gains of 7.6 percent for BMW <BMWG.DE>
- the world's biggest maker of luxury cars by annual sales - to
135,735 vehicles, and Mercedes <DAIGn.DE> saw 17.6 percent
growth to 139,802 cars, outselling its two rivals for a second
straight month.
Chinese deliveries at Audi, which leads the premium segment in
the world's largest auto market, fell for a fourth month but the
decline eased to 4.1 percent from 12.5 percent in July.
China's car market could post the first drop in volume this year
since taking off in the late 1990s, the country's auto industry
association said on Thursday, after posting a 3 percent decline
in August to 1.7 million vehicles.
Audi is counting on momentum from the launch of more than 10 new
models in China through mid-2016, but - unlike BMW and Mercedes
- has shied away from forecasting full-year deliveries in its
key market which last year accounted for a third of its global
sales.
(Reporting by Andreas Cremer; Editing by Georgina Prodhan and
Susan Fenton)
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