The President of the Volvo Bus Corporation Hakan Agnevall speaks during a press conference in Bangalore on July 14, 2015. File Photo AFP-LEHTIKUVA
The Volvo Car Group reported a global sales surge for the month of July on Monday.
Volvo sold some 38,000 units globally in July, a 4.6-percent increase on the same month last year, with its Western European core market seeing an 8.8-percent rise in sales figures posted online.
"The success for the new (SUV model) Volvo XC90 is now starting to show in our sales performance but I am also happy to see that our (sedan) '60-series continues to grow in demand globally," Alain Visser, senior vice president of marketing, sales and customer service at Volvo, said in a statement.
Sales soared 14.7 percent in the United States, where the Chinese-owned Swedish brand sold some 5,600 cars in July.
In the first seven months of the year, Volvo has sold some 265,000 cars in total, a 1.9-percent increase on the same period last year.
