After more than five decades, Sweden’s home turf car company ‘Volvo’ lost out to Volkswagen in topping the list of most sold car models in that country.
According to Swedish automakers’ association, the German based company, Volkswagen’s Golf Alltrack model peaked in the list with 22,084 sales, from the total of 3,72,296 new cars registered in Sweden, for the year 2016.
However, the reputable company Volvo sold 21,321 units standing second, not far behind, to Volkswagen in terms of sales.
In 1962, Volkswagen’s celebrated model Beetle topped the list of most sold car in Sweden. After that, Volvo carried on topping this list, hitherto. The list also shows that the sales of new cars in Sweden rise 7.9 percent with last year.