02 April 2020

Škoda Global Production (By Model) : 2018-19


Škoda after some years of production increase, a 3.3% decline. It was way back in 2002 that the brand had a larger fall (-3.4%). The reason for this is Asia, more specifically China, with a -17.3% reduction in deliveries. That's the biggest market for the brand so they did well to limit the impact.

SUVs are shaded in yellow and VW has combined the Kamiq and Karoq production. They are similar in size but surely warrant separation. This type of vehicle now accounts for 30.6% of all sales. Not as high as others but they do have a popular range of cars.

16 17 18 19 Models 2019 % +/-
2018 % +/-
1 1 1 1 Octavia 358,356 28.8% -10% 400,210 31.1% -5%
2 2 2 2 Rapid/Scala 207,724 16.7% 6% 195,270 15.2% -7%
5 6 4 3 Kamiq/Karoq 203,688 16.4% 17% 173,816 13.5% 112%
7 5 5 4 Kodiaq 177,163 14.3% 14% 155,499 12.1% 25%
3 3 3 5 Fabia 166,237 13.4% -11% 186,213 14.5% -11%
4 4 6 6 Superb 102,592 8.3% -25% 136,985 10.7% -7%
6 7 7 7 Citigo 27,306 2.2% -26% 37,095 2.9% -4%

Total 1,243,066
-3% 1,285,088
4%

SUV 30.6%
20% 25.6%
53%

Regional sales: Europe (and a few sales elsewhere) add up to 70% of all deliveries. China virtually sells the rest so not a broad coverage globally. Some effort does seem to be going into expanding into new countries but production capacity has to be able to deliver on that.

Region 2019 % +/-
2018 % +/-
Europe/Other 929,764 70.2% 6% 880,308 70.2% 3%
Asia - Pacific 311,993 29.7% -16% 372,438 29.7% 4%
South America 1,243 0.1% -1% 1,254 0.1% 4%
Total 1,243,000
-1% 1,254,000
4%

Data source: VW.

01 April 2020

Audi Global Production (By Model) : 2018-19


Audi production has reduced three years in a row now. The numbers aren't large at least but it shows how competitive the premium car arena has become. it was only a 1% drop in 2018 but moved up to -4% a year later. VW stated WLTP affected sales in the first part of the year.

Yellow highlights SUVs and they constitute 42.6% of total production, up 12%. The fact that Audi is so strong in China may account as to why passenger cars are still taking the majority of the total.

16 17 18 19 Models 2019 % +/-
2018 % +/-
2 1 1 1 A4 323,387 18.0% -6% 344,623 18.5% 6%
3 3 3 2 Q5 286,365 16.0% -4% 298,645 16.0% 3%
1 2 2 3 A3 240,795 13.4% -21% 304,903 16.4% -3%
4 4 4 4 A6 232,569 13.0% -9% 254,705 13.7% -2%
5 5 5 5 Q3 195,566 10.9% 17% 167,707 9.0% -18%
12 8 8 6 Q2 130,225 7.3% 20% 108,386 5.8% 6%
8 6 6 7 A5 93,077 5.2% -17% 111,544 6.0% -7%
6 9 9 8 A1 82,287 4.6% 2% 80,387 4.3% -16%
7 7 7 9 Q7 63,633 3.5% -42% 110,593 5.9% 4%
- 14 11 10 Q8 44,727 2.5% 100% 22,414 1.2% n/a
- - 14 11 e-tron 43,376 2.4% n/a 2,425 0.1% n/a
11 12 10 12 A8 23,826 1.3% -3% 24,541 1.3% 55%
10 11 12 13 A7 17,068 1.0% -15% 20,058 1.1% 18%
9 10 13 14 TT 14,999 0.8% 24% 12,118 0.6% -45%
13 13 15 15 R8 2,121 0.1% 20% 1,764 0.1% -45%

Total 1,864,813
-4% 1,875,353
-1%

SUV 42.6%
12% 38.1%
1%

Regional sales: I'm not sure why production has exceeded deliveries for two years now. Sometimes that happens as one can get ahead of the other before a realignment is implemented. The deliveries below also include Lamborghini, but that has no real impact on the numbers.

Region 2019 % +/-
2018 % +/-
Europe/Other 806,490 43.5% 3% 781,740 43.0% -14%
Asia Pacific 758,286 40.9% 2% 739,926 40.7% 10%
Nth America 272,538 14.7% -1% 276,336 15.2% -1%
Sth America 16,686 0.9% -8% 18,180 1.0% -20%
Total 1,854,000
2% 1,818,000
-3%

Data source: VW.