Toyota Widens Lead Over VW as World's Top-Selling Automaker
- That compares to No. 2 automaker VW’s 8.88 million in sales
- Japanese automaker retained lead despite Covid, supply issues
Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles for export at the dockyard in the IPC Car Terminal at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Toyota Motor Corp. finished out 2021 as the world’s top-selling automaker again, highlighting how the Japanese company has been able to keep production mostly on track despite a year of supply-chain turmoil.
Toyota group sales, which include those of its subsidiaries Daihatsu Motor Co. and Hino Motors Ltd., were up 10% to 10.5 million units for the year, the company said Friday. That compares to group deliveries from Volkswagen AG of 8.88 million vehicles. 2021 marks the second straight year that Toyota has topped global sales, after clinching the position for the first time in five years in 2020.