World's Largest Automaker 2012, An Update
September Production and Full Year Forecast9M ’129M ’11YoYProj ’12Toyota7,681,8915,583,32837.6%10,243,000GM7,054,0006,948,0001.5%9,405,000Volkswagen6,710,0006,110,0009.8%8,947,000Black: Company data. Toyota, GM: Production. VW: Deliveries. Forecast by TTAC
With GM’s third quarter release also and finally came the long-awaited global production numbers for the first nine months. We need production, because the race for the world’s largest automaker is decided by how many cars are made, not by how many are sold.
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Plugging the data into our spreadsheet, the race appears to be pretty much decided. As mentioned before, Toyota’s numbers will probably be less than what the current projection says as China is taking its toll. The current indications are a little bit less than 10 million for Toyota.
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Greetings from NYC. Can you get Steve Lang to do an article on how to avoid buying a used car that has been flooded? Thanks.
Toyota will be the clear winner. Second place could be close though as VW outproduced GM by 150K units in September, and outsold GM in China.
After the GFC,recall witch hunt, tsunami+earthquake, record Yen strength, China-Japan politics, relentless bashing by the media.... Toyota is still number one! Awesome.
"the race for the world’s largest automaker is decided by how many cars are made, not by how many are sold". Advantage General Motors, who was always better at making cars than selling them.