10:06 am, January 13, 2014
JAGUAR Land Rover has delivered its strongest ever full-year global sales performance.
Full-year retail sales in 2013 stood at 425,006, up 19 per cent, with strong growth in all major regions and new records set in 38 markets, including Russia, Brazil, Korea and Canada.
The Asia Pacific and the China region was 30 per cent, North America up 21 per cent, the UK up 14 per cent, Europe up six per cent, and other overseas markets were up 23 per cent.
Jaguar recorded a 42 per cent year-on-year increase in sales, selling 76,668 vehicles in 2013 – its strongest full year sales performance since 2005 with new records set in 17 markets including, Brazil, India, Russia and China.
The British brand also emerged as the fastest-growing premium brand in the USA, Germany and India in 2013. Jaguar says the strong performance was primarily driven by the F-Type and a new annual record for XF retailing 47,391 saloon and Sportbrake versions.
XJ also delivered its best full-year performance for ten years with 19,677 vehicle sales with particular strong demand from North America and China thanks to the introduction of the All-Wheel Driveline and an enhanced engine line-up.
Meanwhile Land Rover also broke records selling 348,338 vehicles in 2013, up 15 per cent on the prior year following record sales of the Range Rover and Range Rover Evoque and all-new Range Rover Sport – which was close to equaling its prior record set in 2007. The Freelander 2 was up 20 per cent on 2012.
Sales were up for Land Rover in every major region with annual sales records set in 42 markets, including the UK, USA, Brazil and India.
Andy Goss, Jaguar Land Rover group sales operations director said: ‘2013 has been a great year in which we have seen some incredibly exciting new models launched to customers across the world.
‘It is not just our customers who are delighting in our strongest ever vehicle line up, international journalists bestowed almost 200 awards on our vehicles in 2013 with the F-Type, our star performer receiving more than 59 accolades. This recognition is a demonstration that Jaguar Land Rover’s focus is on delivering cars that surpass customer expectations.’
