Volkswagen Board Member for Sales and Marketing Klaus Zellmer commented, "Volkswagen achieved satisfactory sales under extremely challenging conditions. The massive effects on production brought on by the semiconductor situation could not be entirely compensated for over the course of the year, however. Nonetheless, our record-breaking order backlog of 543,000 vehicles in Europe alone — thereof 95,000 IDs — shows clearly that the demand for Volkswagen vehicles continues to be very high."