2012 was its best year of the Porsche brand

Luxury car brand Porsche announced car sales in 2012, up 22% compared with 2011, reaching more than 143,000 units.
This is a record that sports car brand iconic of Germany achieved, in which models achieved impressive sales growth was 911 with 26,203 units sold, up to 49%.
However, the model 911 Porsche's legendary sports mentioned above is not the brand's best-selling car in 2012 but the Cayenne SUV. Porsche has sold 77,882 units in 2012, up 30%. This is the year sales form Cayenne best when SUV models account for more than half of the total number of vehicles sold by Porsche.

The second selling cars of Porsche Panamera with 27,331 units sold, only slightly more than 911 samples. Next is the model Boxster with 10,126 units sold, although this new generation model has been introduced in the March / 2012. Sample sister model Boxster Cayman is sold only 1614 units due to customers waiting for the latest-generation model was introduced earlier this year.
North American market is still the most important market of Porsche as sales of cars sold in the region have increased 34% to 39,192 units. In China (including Hong Kong), Porsche sold 33,590 vehicles, an increase of 32%. Sales of cars sold in Europe (except Germany) of Porsche reached 31,094 units, up 8%, while in Germany, the brand sold 16,090 units, up 16%. In the remaining areas, sold by Porsche car sales reached 23,130 units, up 19%.
Porsche also announced the production growth of 19% in fiscal 2012 to 151,999 units, sales rose 27 percent to 13.9 billion euros, while operating profit rose 19 percent to 2.44 billion euros. 2012 was also the year the Porsche hiring more employees, 17 502 people.