Re: VW Sales for 1997

[Scott Catlin <scott.catlin@sierra.com>]

How cool would that be, to be the only one in the US with a 1996 Golf or 
Jetta TDI. Talk about rare! 

>Just an FYI on VW's total 1997 sales broken down by models.
>Interesting notes:
>
>2,809 Total GTI VR6's in 1997 a 5.2% increase from 1996
>
>8,510 Total Jetta GLX's in 1997 a 77% increase from 1996
>
>9,598 Passat B4's in 1997
>5,246 New Passat B5's in just the last three months of 1997
>
>9,538 Cabriolets in 1997 a 63.7% increase from 1996
>
>131,560 Gasoline powered cars sold in 1997 vs 4,510 diesels for 1997
>34.5% of all Volkswagens sold in 1997 were Diesel Powered
>
>
>               1997         1996
>             --------     --------
>Golf CL         5           175
>Golf GL       14662        16262
>Golf TDI        6            1
>
>TOTAL GOLF    14673        16802
>
>
>GTI 4-cyl     3220         4735
>GTI VR6       2809         2671
>
>
>Jetta CL       17           601
>Jetta GL      43105        54923
>Jetta TDI     2216           1
>Jetta GLS     21418        22201
>Jetta GT      15718        2488
>Jetta GLX     8510         4808
>
>TOTAL JETTA   90984        85022
>
>
>TOTAL CABRIO  9538         5628
>
>
>Passat GLS Sdn  106         3333
>Passat GLX Sdn  6054        8968
>Passat GLX Wgn  1130        2672
>Passat TDI Sdn  2221        3472
>Passat TDI Wgn  87          1405
>
>TOTAL PASSAT    9598       19850
>
>
>Passat 1.8T Sdn     5246
>Passat V6 GLS Sdn   23
>
>New Passat Total:   5269
>
>
>TOTAL CARS SOLD IN 1997  137,885
>TOTAL CARS SOLD IN 1996  135,907
>
>A 1.5% increase in 1997
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