Strong demand for Cayenne
and Panamera
Porsche delivers 29.5 per cent
more vehicles worldwide in June
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG,
Stuttgart again delivered significantly more cars to customers
worldwide in June 2011. Deliveries increased by 29.5 per cent compared
with the same month the year before to reach 10,677 vehicles. The
sports car manufacturer delivered a total of 60,659 new vehicles in the
first half of the year, 36.8 per cent more than from January to June
the year before. Bernhard Maier, Porsche AG Board of Management Member
for Sales and Marketing, signalled his satisfaction with developments:
“We managed to increase our deliveries significantly again in June.
This is accompanied by better-than-expected sales figures. The
significant increase in new vehicle orders, especially for our
front-engined sports cars, Cayenne and Panamera, also gives grounds for
anticipating good sales figures in the coming months.
In June 2011 Porsche managed to
grow in almost every region worldwide. The response from Chinese
customers was again especially strong: Deliveries more than quadrupled
to 2,423 compared with the same month the year before. The most
successful model apart from the Cayenne off-road vehicle was the
Panamera. With 2,546 vehicles Porsche announced growth of 18.9 per cent
for the USA in June 2011. In the domestic German market, the sports car
manufacturer delivered 1,344 vehicles in June, broadly in line with the
same month the year before. The diesel version of the Cayenne was
especially popular. On the other hand weaker sales in a number of
European markets such as Great Britain, the Netherlands or Austria
translated into a 6.5 per cent Europe-wide decline in customer
deliveries in June. Conversely, the Russian market showed a significant
increase last month with 63.6 per cent to reach 216 vehicles.
The Cayenne again enjoyed
especially strong demand. In June alone the sports car manufacturer
sold 4,994 of the sporty off-road vehicles, 69.2 per cent more than in
the same month the year before. First half-year deliveries almost
doubled to 30,055 compared with the same period the previous year. This
included more than 2,000 Cayenne S Hybrid, making Porsche the global
market leader for hybrid off-road vehicles. In June the Zuffenhausen
company sold 2,318 Panameras, 14.1 per cent more of the sporty saloons
than in the same month the year before. The sports car model lines also
slightly exceeded their previous year’s level in the reporting month.
2,015 vehicles of the 911 model line were delivered – up one per cent.
With 1,350 vehicles delivered, the Boxster model line, which also
includes the Cayman, posted growth of 6.5 per cent compared with the
same month the year before.
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