January 28, 201313 yr By William Maley Staff Writer - CheersandGears.com January 28, 2013 Toyota has regained the world's largest automaker crown for 2012. The automaker was able to bounce back in 2012 after the earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan last year and a large amount of recalls that caused them to lose the largest automaker title in 2011. Toyota and its subsidiaries delivered 9.75 million vehicles last year, ahead of General Motors which delivered 9.29 million vehicles and Volkswagen which delivered 9.09 million vehicles. Toyota sales grew worldwide by 23% in 2012, with Japan seeing the largest increase in sales of 35%. In the U.S., Toyota's market share grew to 14.9% in 2012. Toyota forecasts that will deliver 9.91 million vehicles in 2013. This is due to company forecasting continued growth in the United States and a recovery in China where Japanese automakers saw a drop in sales due to a land dispute between the two countries. Toyota also expects a weakening Yen to help out as well. Source: Bloomberg William Maley is a staff writer for Cheers & Gears. He can be reached at [email protected] or you can follow him on twitter at @realmudmonster. View full article
January 28, 201313 yr Who cares about the most sales, let stay focused on who has the best quality. Right now I would take GM of Toyota any day for Quality.
January 29, 201313 yr GM will fall to 3 soon. wow talk about Mr. Negative. are you one of those lousy Ford sucking Succubus trolls?
January 29, 201313 yr Amazing that people would ignore the Mt Everest of evidence of poor reliability & engineering & continue to buy toyoyos.
January 31, 201313 yr No one car company is likely to hold this title for any length of time ever again. It will be contested for the foreseeable future, and mean very little.
January 31, 201313 yr No one car company is likely to hold this title for any length of time ever again.It will be contested for the foreseeable future, and mean very little. Exactly that is why the company should be focused on Quality. Building Quality will give you sales. Quality with Passion so the auto's stand out from the rest.
January 31, 201313 yr The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection for Lexus, The Relentless Pursuit of Ordinary for Toyota.
January 31, 201313 yr The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection for Lexus, The Relentless Pursuit of Ordinary for Toyota. But they are both Ordinary as Lexus offers nothing special to stand out from the rest of the Luxury car companies. Their Idea is bland and boring, fall asleep at the wheel driving. They might as well merge with Google and just make all their ugly boring cars Self Driving since the people are more into their electronics.
February 1, 201313 yr It's ok, they probably took the number 1 spot for Recalls in the past 12 months as well.
February 1, 201313 yr GM will be overtaken by VW for the number 2 spot. GM is not aggressive enough and does not have enough presence in Europe. Plus VW is gaining in China.
February 1, 201313 yr It has been a joy to watch the long history of China-Japan tension manifest itself in the automotive game. One can only hope it continues and deepens.
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