Toyota Quarterly U.S. Sales Jump 22% as Car Buyers Storm Back

A salesman shows customers a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck.Photographer: George Frey/Bloomberg
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Toyota Motor Corp.’s first-quarter sales surged 22% from a year earlier in North America, signaling a healthy recovery from when Covid-19 shutdowns kept car buyers at home.

Sales rose to 603,066 vehicles in the quarter, the Japanese automaker said by email Thursday. March sales jumped a gaudy 87% to almost 254,000, Toyota said in separate release, but that compares with a month when consumers had all but abandoned showrooms.