VW Brand Global Production Car/LCV By Nation : 2011-14

This data is for VW as a brand, without the other marques it has within its stable. Unfortunately the data source included Škoda and SEAT brands so I did my best to untangle them. I think I got it about right.

China raced past Germany in 2011 to be the major nation for VW brand production. It looks that will remain so although the growth in China seems to have peaked. Still, with over 40% of the volume created in China does leave VW exposed to any downturns that could occur there in the future.

Another strong country for VW is Brazil and that is not going well at all. At least Europe is reviving and that is important for the brand, as it is the biggest marque there by some way. Asia (outside of China) remains an elusive target for VW to hit with force as the absence of factories in the region shows.

The extreme right column shows the share that each country has of total production except for the bottom figure which is the share VW has of the world market.

11	12	13	14	Nation	2011	2012	2013	2014	%
2	1	1	1	China	1,465,829	2,069,130	2,714,667	2,721,481	42.3%
1	2	2	2	Germany	1,559,067	1,450,822	1,453,372	1,535,878	23.9%
3	3	3	3	Brazil	828,444	852,086	761,193	500,080	7.8%
4	4	5	4	Mexico	510,041	605,508	516,149	475,121	7.4%
5	5	4	5	Spain	351,478	291,457	289,577	305,700	4.8%
7	6	6	6	Slovakia	154,640	231,897	281,349	194,521	3.0%
6	9	7	7	Poland	177,001	112,789	153,812	154,272	2.4%
13	7	8	8	USA	35,589	152,543	132,520	117,628	1.8%
8	11	11	9	RSA	137,759	103,732	103,397	116,003	1.8%
12	13	12	10	India	81,859	67,335	74,184	112,633	1.8%
11	8	9	11	Russia	85,752	117,899	115,444	98,771	1.5%
10	12	13	12	Portugal	102,145	84,680	71,210	79,638	1.2%
9	10	10	13	Argentina	123,631	107,904	106,711	20,425	0.3%
				Total	5,613,235	6,247,782	6,773,585	6,432,151	7.7%

Data source: OICA.