Audi, the luxury brand of Volkswagen Group, continued to lag behind its two German archrivals, BMW and Mercedes Benz, in first-quarter sales.
All three German luxury brands posted lower sales in the first three months, with output and demand undermined by the resurging coronavirus outbreak and supply-chain bottlenecks.
Audi was hit the hardest, with volume slumping 22 percent to 161,600 in the latest period.
Mercedes-Benz sales fell 14 percent to 192,700.
Combined deliveries at BMW and Mini dropped 9.2 percent to 208,507 vehicles, BMW Group said, without breaking down volume by brand.
Audi was China’s largest luxury brand until 2019, when Mercedes took over, and has struggled to reclaim the crown.
BMW was the top luxury brand in 2021.