production is to be increased
Lamborghini 2022 already “almost sold out”
01/24/2022 12:03 p.m
The automotive industry has not yet got the problem of missing electronics under control. VW is also feeling the effects. However, subsidiary Lamborghini is bucking the trend. Almost all vehicles for the current year are already sold out.
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 have about a year’s order lead time,” said Lamborghini boss Stephan Winkelmann of “Automobilwoche”. “We are currently in the process of checking whether we can increase production and add something here so that the waiting time for customers does not grow beyond a year.”
Thanks to preferred chip allocation in the Volkswagen Group, the luxury car manufacturer can also produce, as reported by “Automobilwoche”. According to Winkelmann, the increase in production “per year” is about “perhaps a few hundred units.”
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.
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.
The chip crisis and other supplier problems caused Volkswagen sales to slip again noticeably in the second Corona year 2021. Deliveries of the core brand VW passenger cars fell by 8.1 percent. On the other hand, VW subsidiaries such as Seat and the heavy commercial vehicles from MAN/Scania and the luxury brands Bentley, Bugatti and Lamborghini bucked the trend.