Battle At The Top: VW Contests GM's Numbers
Added on: Jan 24, 2012
Volkswagen contests the commercial results of General Motors and claims that they should be on the first position. If the calculus formula is right, Toyota would lose the 3rd spot in favor of Renault - Nissan,
At the end of last week, General Motors triumphed in the world battle for the first place in the biggest auto constructors chart. The data published by GM show that the Detroit group managed to sell 9,025,942 vehicles, 7,6% more than last year and almost 1 million more vehicles compared to Volkswagen.
But his news has not been received well. According to Wall Street Journal, Volkswagen contests the GM commercial results. VW says that GM has not considered the sales of MAN and Scania, which sold a number of 200,000 vehicles in 2011.
You are probably wondered what relevance this information has as the difference between VW and GM is close to one million. Well, things do not stop here.
Volkswagen claims that the GM numbers were affected by SAIC MotorCorp and Liuzhou Wuling Motors. VW says that GM does not own the majority shares of those companies so they cannot claim the 1,2 million low cost vehicles sold by the Chinese auto builder in 2011.
