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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by tikhonj on Monday January 30, 2017 @08:28PM (#13526709)
The cheaper European brands like Skoda and SEAT also likely have significant volume. Skoda, for example, sold over a million vehicles—a non-trivial 10% of VW group's total.

Audi sold something like 1.8M, probably with better margins than Skoda, so it's certainly a more important brand, but SEAT and Skoda aren't trivial either.

Just in terms of car sales, SEAT + Skoda ≈ Audi.

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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @08:50AM (#13530458)
I'm interested you call SEAT and Skoda cheaper, I'd label them mid-market.
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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by usaphp on Monday January 30, 2017 @09:07PM (#13526893)
Seat and skoda are only popular in handful of small European countries, vw is popular around the globe.
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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by disiplus on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:41AM (#13528807)
https://i.redditmedia.com/dMeUIv2q7ReJRwusmsvEO_n331WdcBEcIX...
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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by monkmartinez on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:45PM (#13527392)
If we could buy Seat and/or Skoda in the states, I bet they would sell rather well. Kia and Hyundai are no longer "bargain" vehicles as they were in the past.
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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by Shounak on Monday January 30, 2017 @09:42PM (#13527079)
Skodas are quite popular in India
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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by usaphp on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:08PM (#13527196)
there aren't many cars in India compared to US or even some small European countries.
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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by CydeWeys on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:20PM (#13527258)
The brands that you are dismissing out of hand sell, in aggregate, several million vehicles per year worldwide. That definitely moves the needle.
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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by njharman on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:57AM (#13528631)
You are ignorant. http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A995

India 159m, USA 265m registered vehicles. India is the 6th largest producer of vehicles.

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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by usaphp on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:14PM (#13535801)
Vast majority of those are 2 and 3 wheelers, we are not talking about those.
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Re:Volkswagen overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker by krakensden on Monday January 30, 2017 @11:46PM (#13527711)
SEAT does pretty well in Mexico.
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