Sharan is slick but Alhambra is better Volkswagen option

THE news this week that Volkswagen had been supplanted at the top of the Irish sales charts came as something of a surprise.

Particularly, as, for the last number of years, VW has managed its sales figures carefully to assure itself of the top slot on a monthly and yearly basis.

However, to see it fall to fourth place overall in the sales standings to the end of July, behind Hyundai, Toyota and Ford, was even more of shock, especially when you see that the company’s Golf model fell to third place in the charts behind the Hyundai Tucson and the Ford Focus.