UK sales help Volvo to record performance
Strong UK sales helped Volvo set a new global sales record for the sixth consecutive year in 2019.
It sold 56,208 units in the UK, a 12 per cent increase on 2018 and its highest figure for 29 years.
That helped the brand to break the 700,000 cars sold mark for the first time in its 93-year history, with 705,452 deliveries in 2019, an increase of 9.8 per cent.
The new sales record was underpinned by continued strong demand for Volvo’s three SUV models, while it also registered strong demand for its electrified vehicles, both in terms of registered sales as well as in retail orders. Overall, Volvo Cars sold 45,933 plug-in hybrid models in 2019, an increase of 22.9 per cent compared with 2018 and more than double the number in 2017.
Håkan Samuelsson, chief executive of Volvo Cars, said: “I am very pleased to see that for the first time in our history we sold more than 700,000 cars, while we gained market share in all our main sales regions. We aim to build on this positive trend in 2020 as we start to roll out our Recharge range of chargeable Volvos.”
