Deliveries by the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand increased further in the first five months of this year, with the brand delivering over two million vehicles for the first time in the period to May.

GERMAN auto company Volkswagen said on Tuesday it has sold more than two million vehicles between January and May, a 12 per cent boost in sales from the same period last year.

The Volkswagen marque sold 2.09 million vehicles in five months against 1.86 million units in 2010, the company said in a statement.

“Our positive trend continued in May and we have posted yet another delivery record,” Christian Klingler, Board Member for Sales and Marketing for the Volkswagen Group and the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand, commented in Wolfsburg on Tuesday.

Nearly a third of those vehicles were sold in China – 714,200 – a 15 per cent increase from last year.

In the United States – where Volkswagen just opened a new factory in Tennessee – it saw nearly 20 per cent sales growth in the period.

There was only a timid increase in sales of 3.6 per cent in Germany.

In 2010, more than half of sales for the Volkswagen group – which includes companies like Audi, Seat and Skoda – were made by Volkswagen. — AFP