The Volkswagen Group has again developed noticeably better than the global automotive market. In an overall market down by approximately 20 percent, the Group delivered 541,600 vehicles (April 2008: 568,100; -4.7 percent). “With our Group’s attractive model range we have largely been able to buck the trend and are on target with these figures,” Detlef Wittig, Executive Vice President, Group Sales and Marketing, commented in Wolfsburg on Monday. With conditions remaining difficult, the Volkswagen brand even sold more vehicles in April. Compared with the same month in 2008, the core brand delivered 339,500 passenger cars (335,100), a rise of 1.3 percent. Via volkswagen-media-services.com