Following the news earlier this week premium brand Audi had hiked its 2014 sales target to about 1.4m, parent Volkswagen Group announced a 6.5% rise in deliveries to the end of August, to 6.52m vehicles.
August sales rose 2.7% to 740,500 units worldwide.
Western Europe (excluding Germany) sales rose 8.2% to 1.31m, Germany was up 6.5% to 757,300 but, though Central and Eastern Europe volume rose 3.2% sales dived 11.6% in Russia.
North American sales fell 1.8% to 583,300 and were down 22.2% to 471,700 in South America.
Chinese sales rose 16.5% to 2.4m.
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