Toyota Almost Confirmed to be Worlds No.1 Car Maker

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The title of world's biggest automaker has been up in the air for the past month, with General Motors saying it sold 9,369,524 vehicles globally in 2007 and Toyota claiming a not-so-precise 9.366 million units sold worldwide. But apparently, GM did some creative math to come up with its final figure.

Automotive News has discovered that GM included the sales of 516,435 Wuling brand vehicles in its final tally. While GM does own 34% of the Chinese automaker, it's industry practice to only include the sales of companies that are majority-owned subsidiaries in an automaker's global total — the same stipulation that prevents Ford from claiming Mazda's sales (Ford only owns a 33.4% stake in the Japanese automaker).

Subtracting Wuling's sales from GM's 2007 total leaves the Detroit automaker with only 8,885,599 sales, well short of Toyota's estimated 9.366 million vehicle sales in 2007. Toyota won't announce its official global sales for 2007 until sometime next month, but it looks as though GM will lose its title of world's biggest automaker for the first time in 76 years.

Source: Leftlane News

 

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Not only the sales of vehicle, Toyota also has one of the highest efficiency in the automotive industry...

Toyota is the third in the shortest average assembly time per vechicle in US...with average of 22.1 hours per vehicle which is slightly higher than GM's 22.2 hours.

The leader is nissan with 20.5 hours and second with honda in 21.1 hours.....

but in terms of reliability survery 4 star in JD power.......and guess what? Honda is 5 stars with second shortest vehicle assembly time.

 

[Snipermc]

Toyota will take the title from GM im sure!! GM is now finding loop holes to get the numbers up... lets face it...Toyota 1 brand, GM 1 brand!! There goes GM's title!!!

 

[na_power]

for toyota, isn't it include 240k unit from perodua for 2007?

 

[boy dtn]

toyota is the number 1..im proud to have toyota in my garage

 

[PocketRocket]

JD Power study survey results are the most precise in automakers comparison so far,....but my 1st time seeing these results made me cock-eyed edi...hard to understand the 1st time. see also service/aftersales service results....toyota,nissan perodua all exceeding average point of 750 but honda tak larat..CSI,SSI results too low.