Audi has finished the first quarter of 2005 with a record 195,044 new cars sales worldwide, an increase of 1.8% on the previous year’s 191,560.

European sales as a whole rose by 9.8%. UK sales were up by 10.2% on last year to 25,724.

Sales rose in Germany by 1.8% to 56,141 units, in Spain by 21.6% to 14,395 units, in France by 24.2% to 10,090 units and in Belgium by 39.6% to 7,547 units. The sales volume in Russia expanded by 48.8% to 1,225 new cars.