While the recent currency crisis and rise in raw material prices have seen some carmakers become less profitable, Audi has managed to maintain strong growth and earned itself a record profit of $4.48 billion for the last financial year. In fact, since 1995 Audi has consistently posted consecutive record profit levels thanks to a series of new and innovative models, which has allowed it to overtake closest rivals BMW and Mercedes-Benz in terms of profitability.
Audi isn’t gloating about this success though, and is already planning strategies to maintain the record profit levels. One of the major goals is to increase Audi’s model range from 25 cars today to more than 40 vehicles in the next ten years.
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