Volkswagen U.S Car Sales Data

This is your hub for all of the Volkswagen sales data for the U.S market.

Volkswagen is a German automaker and one of the largest in the world. Its name means “people’s car” in English which is the company’s slogan.

Volkswagen traces its roots from 1937 when it was established by German Labor Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront) in Berlin to produce affordable cars. Cars were considered a luxury by Germans in the 1930s and the majority of them could only afford motorcycle. The first car manufactured by the company was the Volkswagen Bettle which they started producing in 1938 until 2003. Since then, Volkswagen has gone on to produce a number of different cars.

Today, Volkswagen is renowned as a world-leading auto manufacturer. It was even the considered as the world’s largest automobile manufacturer in 2016 and 2017 until was overtook by Toyota. Volkswagen-brand vehicles are known for their sound German engineering principles and a passion for design that favors performance.

Our Take On Volkswagen US Sales Figures

Even though it is the number two largest automobile manufacturer in the world when it comes to production volume, Volkswagen’s following in the US is not that great as compared to other car manufacturers such as Toyota, Ford, and GM.

Sales are hovering around 340,000 to 360,000 mark over the last five years which is considered to be a drop after selling over 400,000 units from 2012 to 2013. Volkswagen’s current best sellers in the United States are the Tiguan crossover and the Jetta sedan.

Volkswagen Monthly Sales Data

Below we have a table that shows Volkswagen sales for the United States automotive market, but this time it is broken out by month. This is on a unit basis. This is Volkswagen new vehicle sales in the US.

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2005	12,683	13,457	16,738	18,458	16,297	19,071	21,553	23,083	21,646	17,207	18,046	25,956
2006	16,237	16,329	20,730	20,528	22,100	19,290	20,518	21,437	18,435	14,267	15,363	18,296
2007	15,272	14,941	15,527	17,154	19,825	20,003	22,532	18,581	16,912	15,403	15,932	18,444
2008	12,928	14,732	17,843	17,606	19,953	20,666	18,406	20,321	15,872	14,823	13,308	16,599
2009	11,921	12,994	15,022	15,679	18,957	18,480	19,946	23,997	17,105	16,439	15,620	19,612
2010	17,407	18,116	22,148	23,135	23,543	21,051	23,880	22,855	19,943	20,084	20,189	23,867
2011	18,401	21,461	27,176	28,542	30,100	28,444	29,066	25,232	26,313	26,512	26,756	30,971
2012	27,209	59,851	36,588	37,525	38,657	38,170	37,014	41,011	36,339	34,311	36,728	44,005
2013	29,018	31,456	37,704	33,644	38,013	36,957	35,779	40,342	31,920	28,129	30,726	34,015
2014	23,494	27,112	36,717	30,831	32,163	28,827	30,553	35,181	25,996	30,313	31,725	34,058
2015	23,504	25,710	30,025	30,009	34,758	30,436	31,300	32,332	26,141	30,387	23,882	30,956
2016	20,079	22,321	26,914	27,112	28,779	23,809	28,758	29,384	24,112	24,779	29,672	37,229
2017	23,510	25,145	27,635	27,557	30,014	27,377	27,091	32,015	32,112	27,732	29,207	30,281
2018	24,744	26,660	32,548	28,783	31,211	28,941	30,520	32,255	30,555	29,000	26,789	32,047
2019	23,074	25,706	37,092	31,309	35,702	31,725	31,188	35,412	26,947	28,072	29,218	27,877
2020	24,382	31,565	51,168	12,588	27,972	29,373	29,634	26,342	28,538	31,751	26,082	36,289
2021	28,068	28,068	32,050	40,694	39,109	33,821	26,769	25,776	26,769	28,446	28,446	28,446
2022	20,797	20,797	23,397	25,763	25,763	25,763	28,330	29,419	28,330	7,434	7,137	7,731

Volkswagen Sales & Growth

Below is the unit volume sales and unit growth rate for the Volkswagen brand in the United States.

Volkswagen Annual Sales and Market Share

Below we have a table that shows Volkswagen sales volumes for the US automotive market. This data captures all Volkswagen car sales. We found a great data source in Volkswagen directly who publishes sales data for the U.S market periodically. We were able to aggregate the data into the below format.

Year	Sales	YOY Change	US Marketshare	Marketshare Change
2005	224,195	0.00	1.33	0.00
2006	223,530	-0.30	1.36	2.38
2007	210,526	-5.82	1.32	-3.45
2008	203,057	-3.55	1.55	15.07
2009	205,772	1.34	1.99	22.13
2010	256,218	24.52	2.23	10.66
2011	318,974	24.49	2.51	11.40
2012	467,408	46.53	3.04	17.35
2013	407,703	-12.77	2.63	-15.49
2014	366,970	-9.99	2.23	-17.80
2015	349,440	-4.78	2.01	-11.29
2016	322,948	-7.58	1.85	-8.80
2017	339,676	5.18	1.97	6.49
2018	354,053	4.23	2.04	3.44
2019	363,322	2.62	2.13	4.24
2020	355,684	-2.10	2.42	11.81
2021	366,462	3.03	2.45	1.24
2022	250,661	-31.60	1.83	-33.62
2023	0	0.00	0.00	0.00