VW makes big gain in sales.(News)(Euro-pean automakers association.)(Volkswagen)

Automotive News Europe,  January, 2006  by Snyder, Jesse

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Byline: Jesse Snyder

In a year of nearly flat sales, Volkswagen group, BMW and Kia were the big winners and traditional European automakers Fiat, Renault, PSA/Peugeot-Citroen and Ford the main losers.

But it was an odd year. Sales sagged 0.7 percent to 15.22 million passenger vehicles in the 26-country western and central Europe, says ACEA, the Euro-pean automakers association.

That's a margin of 109,180 vehicles. On such a seemingly flat landscape, individual variations look exaggerated, whether they are single markets or brands.

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