Audi to invest billions in new technology
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Published: 28 Dec, 2013 CET.
Updated: Sat 28 Dec 2013 09:31 CET
Audi, the top-of-the-range carmaker owned by German auto giant Volkswagen, announced on Friday a massive investment programme in new models and technology over the next five years.
The company said it would invest around 22 billion euros ($30 billion) between 2014 and 2018 and also said it had achieved its goal of an annual 1.5 million deliveries early.
"In the future, we will be investing increasingly in new products: 70 percent is intended for the modernisation and expansion of the model range and for our portfolio of technologies," Axel Strotbek, Audi board member for finance said in a statement.
Audi, whose main rivals are German carmakers BMW and Mercedes-Benz, said it was now eyeing two million deliveries a year by 2020, after reaching 1.5 million this year, two years earlier than planned.
The group plans to extend its product range from 49 models currently to 60 by 2020, it said.
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The company said it would invest around 22 billion euros ($30 billion) between 2014 and 2018 and also said it had achieved its goal of an annual 1.5 million deliveries early.
"In the future, we will be investing increasingly in new products: 70 percent is intended for the modernisation and expansion of the model range and for our portfolio of technologies," Axel Strotbek, Audi board member for finance said in a statement.
Audi, whose main rivals are German carmakers BMW and Mercedes-Benz, said it was now eyeing two million deliveries a year by 2020, after reaching 1.5 million this year, two years earlier than planned.
The group plans to extend its product range from 49 models currently to 60 by 2020, it said.
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