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Lamborghini: »We are about a year ahead of the order«
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The Italian VW subsidiary Lamborghini wants to increase production this year after record sales in 2021.
»We are in the fortunate situation that we are almost sold out in 2022.
We are about a year ahead of the order,” said Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann of “Automobilwoche”.
»We are currently in the process of examining whether we can increase production and add something here so that the waiting time for customers does not grow beyond a year.«
Thanks to preferential chip allocation in the Volkswagen Group, the luxury car manufacturer can also produce, as reported by »Automobilwoche«.
According to Winkelmann, the increase in production is "perhaps a few hundred units over the year."
Lamborghini delivered 8,405 cars last year, 13 percent more than in 2020. "If nothing negative happens in the next few months, 2022 will be another great year in which we could do very well," said Winkelmann of the trade journal.
VW is under pressure because of the lack of chips
Lamborghini plans to launch a hybrid model in 2023 and an all-electric model by the end of 2024.
The complete conversion to electric cars should be achieved in the second half of the century.
Despite the chip crisis in the industry, Lamborghini can report good figures. This does not apply to all car manufacturers, and especially not to the large-scale manufacturers. VW in particular is coming under more and more pressure because of the shortage. In November, the worldwide deliveries of the largest European carmaker slipped by 31.5 percent to 616,300 vehicles, as the Dax company announced in December.
In November, the core brand VW passenger cars as well as Audi and Skoda each delivered a good third fewer cars than a year earlier.
At Seat there was a drop of a good fifth, just like with light commercial vehicles.
Of the major brands, only Porsche was able to keep the figures more or less stable with a small minus of 0.3 percent.
The sports car manufacturer is the profit machine in the group.
The MAN and Scania heavy commercial vehicle brands recorded declines in the mid to high single-digit percentage range.
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