German Manufacturers Increase US Sales to Nearly 1.4 million Light Vehicles
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DETROIT, MI -- January 12, 2015: In 2014 the German manufacturers pushed up their sales of light vehicles on the US market to almost 1.4 million units (+2 percent), stressed Matthias Wissmann, President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), at the VDA's press conference in Detroit. This was a new sales record for the German OEMs, Wissmann said. The latest figure means sales have risen by more than half (54 percent) since 2010. Most of this growth occurred in the light truck segment. Further information is available at
