Germany automaker Volkswagen sold more than 7.5 million passenger cars and heavy trucks between January and September, Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn said on Wednesday at the Paris auto show, reported Reuters.

Eur‎ope's largest automaker is "well on the way" to achieving a target of 10 million vehicle sales this year, four years earlier than originally planned, the CEO said at a group event on the eve of the Paris show.