Porsche has sold slightly more sports cars this year.

From January to September, deliveries increased by 2 percent to 221,512 cars, as the Volkswagen subsidiary announced in Stuttgart on Friday.

Most growth was recorded in Europe and on the home market.

Sales director Detlev von Platen said the vehicles were in demand on all continents.

“At the same time, we continue to be concerned with component supply restrictions that impact customer wait times.”

In Europe, the increase in cars sold between January and September was 11 percent to 42,204 vehicles.

20,850 sports cars were delivered in Germany.

An increase of 9 percent.

Deliveries in China fell by one percent to 68,766 vehicles.

There had always been severe restrictions there in the past as a result of the corona pandemic.

China is Porsche's most important single market.

In North America there were 56,357 deliveries.

A minus of four percent.

In the first quarter, a freighter with 4,000 cars from the VW Group, including many from Porsche, burned out on its way to the USA and then sank.

That was one of the reasons for the drop in sales there.

The Cayenne and Macan SUV models are still top sellers.

Porsche's only electric car model Taycan has rolled off the assembly line around 25,000 times in its second year of sale - a drop of twelve percent.

This is due to missing components, the order backlog is still large.

Such restrictions in the supply chain continue to lead to longer waiting times for customers, explained sales manager Detlev von Platen.