In a recent e-mail statement, China's biggest overseas carmaker Volkswagen AG said that with the government stimulus measures bringing about a spur in its demand, its sales soared 37 percent in the January-September period this year, the company expects its overall yearly sales to show a 30 percent increase.

The statement by Winfried Vahland - the President and CEO o Volkswagen's Chinese unit - revealed that the company's China and Hong Kong (HK) mainland sales have touched 1.06 million vehicles thus far, thereby surpassing 2008's whole year figures of 775,341 vehicle sales.

Noting that the company's sales in September touched a monthly record of almost 150,000 units, Vahland said: "We surpassed the 1 million record sales landmark of last year already in middle of September. Based on our current figures we expect for the whole year a solid double-digit growth of more than 30 percent for the group!"

Further statistics showed that Volkswagen sold 871,037 cars under the Volkswagen brand, including imports; while the deliveries for Audi models touched 108,859 units, and sales of Skoda stood at 81,652 units.

The sales figures for the nine months of 2009 have substantiated Volkswagen's hopes of reaching its projected targets of a two-fold increase in its sales in the Greater China area to 2 million units by 2018; and hence leading to an increased market share in China.