Volkswagen Brand Sales Up for First Time Since January

The Volkswagen brand is reporting a 4.7 percent increase in June deliveries as compared to last year, and China and the Tiguan are largely to thank.

This is only the second month since the diesel scandal broke that sales for the brand have increased over the previous year. Although the numbers in the first half of the year are still down 0.7 percent, that’s a 1 percent improvement over the first five months of the year.

“This is a good basis for the second half of the year,” says Jürgen  Stackmann, brand board member for  sales, and “the outstanding response to the new Tiguan provides further momentum for the second half of the year.”

Stackmann admits though, that the results are largely thanks to the brand’s best ever performance in China. Sales there for June 2016 are up 23.7 percent over 2015, with the brand having delivered 220,500 vehicles in June and more than 1.3 million vehicles for the year so far.

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Despite the good news for VW, the Americas are still proving to be difficult markets. U.S. and Brazilian deliveries dropped precipitously in June, by 21 percent and 34 percent, respectively.

The Volkswagen Group, meanwhile, also saw a sales increase in the month of June. Unlike the brand, though, the Group delivered 1.5 percent more vehicles in the first half of this year than it did in the first half of 2015.

That’s thanks to strong performances from Audi, Skoda, Porsche, and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. Like the brand, the group performed well in China and Europe, but struggled in the Americas.

This article originally appeared on VW Vortex