Porsche: 8.5% sales increase, to 320m euros

Porsche Romania, the largest importer of vehicles on the local market, sold 18,164 units in the first four months of the year, up 8.5% on the same period last year, whereas estimates made by the company’s General Manager, Brent Valmar at the beginning of the year, indicted an around 2% increase. According to ZF estimates, Porsche Romania’s turnover from vehicle sales in the first four months of the year amounted to 320 million euros, after it was the first importer to exceed the one billion-euro mark in 2007. The brand with the fastest growth rate was Skoda (16.3%), to 8,270 vehicles, which preserved the Czech division of the VW-Audi group’s top position among imported brands. Skoda’s sales increase was prompted almost exclusively by the Octavia II model, which reached a volume of 3,515 units in the first four months, up almost 70% against the same time last year.