Audi Group generates nine-month operating profit of EUR 4.2 billion (BILD)

Ingolstadt (ots) -

- Revenue of EUR 37.7 billion for January through September
- CFO Axel Strotbek: "After three quarters of the year, we are still
well on track to reach our target for the year."
- Substantial rise in Audi deliveries: up 12.8 percent

The Audi Group is fully on course to achieve its target for the
year. By the end of the third quarter, the Company had already
delivered 1,097,540 (2011: 973,154) cars of the Audi brand to
customers. Overall, the Audi Group generated revenue of EUR 37.7
(2011: 32.4) billion - a rise of 16.3 percent. This performance
contributed towards a 6.1 percent increase in the Company's operating
profit to EUR 4.2 (2011: 4.0) billion, representing an operating
return on sales of 11.2 (2011: 12.2) percent.

Upon publication of the Third Quarter Report, Axel Strotbek,
Member of the Board of Management of AUDI AG for Finance and
Organization, commented: "After three quarters of the year, we are
still well on track to reach our target for the year." 2012 will see
the Company deliver over 1.4 million vehicles. Revenue will increase
correspondingly, keeping the operating profit up on a par with the
previous year.

The automaker continued to make good progress in the third quarter
of the current fiscal year, delivering a total of 364,303 (2011:
320,262) cars of the Audi brand to customers. These brought in
revenue amounting to some EUR 12.6 (2011: 10.9) billion - a
year-on-year rise of 15.7 percent. The operating profit of EUR 1.3
(2011: 1.4) billion almost matched the previous year's high level.
The operating return on sales was 10.5 (2011: 13.1) percent.

The performance over the first three quarters is above all
attributable to substantially increased volume. The intensification
of research and development activities as well as strategic market
development programs, such as the Audi City retail concept which was
opened in July, pushed up costs. On the other hand, Strotbek
highlighted that higher productivity, improved processes and exchange
rates favoring the Company had impacted profits positively.

Despite increased expenditure for new products and technologies of
the future, the ongoing expansion of manufacturing structures and a
tougher competitive environment, the Audi Group aims to remain among
the automotive industry's world leaders for profitability at year-
end.

With new models such as the Audi Q3 and the A1 Sportback, Audi
intends to attract more customers to the brand in 2012. In the first
nine months of the current fiscal year, the Company was able to
increase its deliveries of vehicles worldwide by 12.8 percent. The
new generation of the Audi A3 should likewise smooth the path to
success for the brand. This three-door model has been on sale since
the end of August. The new Audi A3 Sportback was unveiled at the
Paris Motor Show in September and will start arriving at dealers from
early 2013.

Publication of the Third Quarter Report 2012 at 10 a.m. CET at:
www.audi.de/zwischenmitteilung2012_q3
www.audi.com/quarterly-report2012_q3 (English)

Pressekontakt:
Corporate Communications
Julio Schuback
Spokesman for Finance and Organization
Tel: +49 841 89-38455
e-mail: julio.schuback@audi.de
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