Toyota into the world's best-selling car brand

According to reports, from January to September this year, Toyota surpassed its main competitors Volkswagen and GM in sales, becoming the world's best-selling car brand so far this year.

On Monday (October 28th), Toyota Motor Corporation released data saying that in the first three quarters of this year, Toyota's global sales of new cars reached 7.41 million. This figure also includes the sales of Toyota's two sub-brands, Daihatsu and Hino. Compared with the same period of last year, Toyota’s sales volume in the first three quarters of this year increased slightly by 0.1 percentage point. This is mainly due to Toyota's outstanding performance in the US market. Due to the territorial disputes between China and Japan, Toyota’s sales in the domestic market were severely frustrated and, to a certain extent, offset by the rapid growth of the US market.

General Motors ranks second in the sales list with Toyota's 7.25 million results. The third place is the public. In the first three quarters of this year, Volkswagen sold a total of approximately 7.03 million new cars worldwide. Although GM and Volkswagen failed to achieve Toyota's overtake in total sales, GM and Volkswagen maintained their lead in Toyota's growth. Compared with the same period of last year, GM and Volkswagen increased their sales of new cars by 4.6% and 4.8% respectively.

Unlike Toyota's calculation method, Volkswagen did not include the sales of its two heavy truck brands, Man and Scania. As of September this year, Scania sold a total of 56,220 new cars, and Mann's sales data has not yet been announced. According to previous years' data, Scania and Mann's two brands have a total annual sales of about 200,000 units. As a result, the gap between Volkswagen and GM is reduced to about 70,000 units. In any case, GM and Volkswagen have failed to shake Toyota's global automotive industry's "first brother" status.