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PREMIUM BRANDS | AID EXCLUSIVE
Brand with the four rings kept dealers’ tills ringing, but fight on for future sector positions


Published: Mon, 30th Nov 2015 13:42:08 GMT
 

Frankfurt IAA Audi A8 Audi congress

Audi – one of three outstanding winners in West Europe’s fiercely contested car market remains the old continent’s leading prestige car brand. But apart from the imminent fallout from Volkswagen Group’s fast spreading diesel emission scandal, rivals BMW and Mercedes in particular are piling on the pressure. Both made it obvious that they won't stand idly by and watch Audi grab more market share in Europe or elsewhere 

There is no debate, from a historical perspective Europe’s prestige sector dominating carmakers Audi, BMW and Mercedes stand out as the region’s biggest gainers.

For some three decades, with their West European market shares closely bunched together, each prestige sector member - in near equal measure - continued to plunder the most profitable pastures of their unfortunate volume car rivals. 

Testament to their unwavering sales gains in West Europe’s changing new car market, the trio’s sales share more than doubled since the early 1980s, with their substantial gains coming entirely out of mass-carmakers’ pockets. 

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