Category: Auto

Above all, the fine of 800 million euros imposed by the munich public prosecutor’s office in the diesel scandal has had a negative impact on the interim balance sheet, the ingolstadt-based carmaker said.

In addition, there were high costs for new models, the conversion of plants for electric cars and sharply lower sales figures due to the delays in the registration of vehicles according to the new consumption measurement standard WLTP. For many years, audi has been the strongest profit earner in the VW group.

This was announced by the company on friday in tokyo. A year ago, toyota was just in the black due to the japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster. At that time, japanese car production had temporarily come to a complete standstill.

In the past quarter, toyota sold 2.27 million cars, almost twice as many as a year ago. In the first six months of 2012, the japanese had again passed rough rivals general motors (GM) and VW in global sales figures. Toyota sells 4.97 million vehicles, 34 percent more than in the first half of 2011. For the year as a whole, toyota boss akio toyoda now expects sales of 8.8 million cars, 100,000 more than before.