[volkman10]

VW rolls out the 1 millionth car today. The first car, a Polo rolled out on 31 March 2009. The millionth car out of the Chakan plant is an Ameo.

The next million will come much sooner says VW Group boss Gurpratap Boparai

[Rajeevraj]

Good achievement. Especially considering the first car and millionth car are basically the same one. Hope the next million has some diversity.

[driven646]

Nice, Congratulations to VW India - I hope they manage to get out of their current rut & bring in new products to India that enable them to become a viable player in our market.

I am an unabashed VW fan & we have had 6 VW/Skoda products in our extended family of cousins, in laws over the years.

[Aditya]

One millionth car rolls out of Volkswagen's Pune plant - Posts moved to a new thread.

[volkman10]

Volkswagen's official release:

The Volkswagen Group is further strengthening its commitment and hold in the market through its regional project INDIA 2.0. The focus of this project is to develop more cars that are relevant to the requirements of the Indian market on a platform that has been localized

[ruzbehxyz]

Originally Posted by volkman10

VW rolls out the 1 millionth car today.

Thanks for sharing.
Hope that VW group continues to deliver good cars to the Indian market especially since the market is so volatile.
With Indian automobile industry going electric around 2030, I hope they enter the electric market as well and continue to deliver good cars.

[Abhejit]

Hi everyone, I am new here, so apologies for the lack of introduction.

I own a Polo 1.2 Petrol Trendline, over 6 years old, and apart from engine trouble a few times, it has supported me like a rock. When I had brought the Polo back then, VW was on an incredible high, and I could see Polos in every corner in Mumbai, such was its popularity - value for money, excellent German build quality, and safe as a fort. Over time, I am seeing VW squander its position in India and it is painful. Rehashing the Polo platform into multiple variants/classes again and again just doesn't work, and at the top end, managing to sell a few hundreds of Passat and Tiguan should'nt be an ambition for this marquee in the world's fastest growing auto market. The Ameo, their millionth car, is hardly making a dent in a market where Dzire and Amaze are selling in thousands.

Volkswagen is lucky they have such a loyal base in this country, i'm included, and I hope they can take this market more seriously, and continue launching great vehicles.

[GTO]

Originally Posted by Rajeevraj

Good achievement. Especially considering the first car and millionth car are basically the same one. Hope the next million has some diversity.

1 million sounded like an awful lot for VW India, so I opened up our sales sheet and calculated the total sales for each VW from 2011. NOTE = the Polo was launched in 2010, but I don't have data for that single year. However, it's certainly not enough to make up the difference.

Polo: 234,080
Ameo: 42,378
Vento: 136,496
Jetta: 13,736
Touareg: 82
Passat: 3875
Tiguan: 2140
Beetle: 324

Total = 433,111

Let's add another 60 - 70 grand tops for the 2010 Polo + Vento sales which we don't have data of. That makes it about 500,000.

Now, it's a whopping 100% difference from what VW is boasting about. Sister brands then? The first car made there was the Fabia, but that was a flop (total sales from 2011 onward are 25,181). The Rapid is built there, whose total sales are 96,864 till date. That leaves a hole of almost 4 lakh cars.

I was wondering where the difference still is? Then, I read this part of the press release "400,000+ cars have been exported from the Pune plant".

In a nutshell, out of the million cars VW's Pune plant has produced, 50% have been for itself, 10% for Skoda & 40% for exports.