Volkswagen Sold More Currywurst Than Cars in 2015

If anything can outsell a German car, then it must be the country's favorite dish: currywurst. But who knew that Volkswagen also markets its own brand of the sausage and spicy ketchup snack?

The latest figures show that the automaker sold more than 7.2 million sausages in 2015, compared to worldwide sales of 5.82 million cars last year, NBC News reported.

Volkswagen sales growth turned negative for the first time in at least four-and-a-half years in April and declined even further after the firm admitted in September it had rigged U.S. diesel emissions tests. Up to 11 million vehicles worldwide could have illegal software installed, according to the company.

But sausage sales suffered no such slump, with an additional 1 million wursts sold compared to the previous year, according to media reports.

In 1973, the Wolfsburg-based automaker invented its own "Volkswagen Currywurst". Ever since, the unique sausage brand has been coming off assembly lines in two sizes at VW's very own butchery, located within the car-manufacturing plant.
 

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