Toyota is world’s largest automaker, again
Thanks to the blowback from Volkswagen’s emissions debacle, Toyota storms to the lead once again, six months after it lost the crown.
Toyota said it sold 7.5 million vehicles in the first nine months of 2015, beating Volkswagen’s figure of 7.43 million reported earlier this month. General Motors came in third, having sold 7.2 million vehicles in the same period. Still, Toyota’s victory is marred a bit by the fact that its sales is down by 1.5% from the same period last year. Arch-rival Volkswagen’s sales also saw a 1.5% decline in the same quarter.
Earlier this year, Volkswagen overtook Toyota to become the world’s biggest carmaker for the first time. Toyota itself won the crown from GM in 2008, only losing it briefly in 2011 when the Japanese tsunami interrupted vehicle production.
Unfortunately, this victory for Toyota doesn’t represent the full scale of the blowback Volkswagen will be receiving from its breitling replica ongoing diesel emissions crisis. Toyota now looks set to keep the crown for some time to come as VW tries to overcome a large-scale pollution scandal that broke after it was revealed that the company had installed cheating software in millions of its diesel-engine cars to thwart emission tests in many parts of the world. The Wolfsburg-based company had to start a huge recall to fix the rigged vehicles by the end of 2016.
But Toyota, too, is in the middle of another recall, affecting up to 6.5 million cars globally. The company announced last week the cars would have to be fixed because of a faulty power-window switch potentially able to cause overheating and the vehicles to catch fire.
Courtesy : Zigwheels