Volvo Cars', opens new tab sales increased 10 per cent to 53,402 cars in January from a year earlier, the Sweden-based group said on Monday.

Volvo Cars, which is majority-owned by China's Geely Holding, opens a new tab, said in a statement sales in Europe, its biggest market, were up 8 per cent while in the United States, they were unchanged. In China, they were up 36 per cent