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July 30, 2021
NAGOYA: Toyota Motor Corp. remained the world s best-selling automaker with a record 5.47 million vehicles sold for the first six months of 2021, outpacing German archrival Volkswagen AG, the Japanese company s data showed Thursday, reported foreign media.
It is the second year in a row that Toyota has been the world s top automaker in the first half, underscoring its sharp recovery from the initial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and relative resilience despite a global chip crunch.
Toyota s previous record sales for the first half of a year was set in 2019 with about 5.31 million units sold globally. Toyota has enjoyed robust sales in its key markets such as the United States and China. A Toyota official said the automaker has been able to limit the impact of the global semiconductor shortage.
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Thursday, 29 July 2021, 6:43 pm
Toyota City, Japan, July 29, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) -
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces its sales,
production, and export results for June 2021 as well as the
cumulative total from January to June, including those for
subsidiaries Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. and Hino Motors,
Ltd.
Global Sales
- Global sales in the first
half of 2021 were 5.005 million units (up 32.7 percent
compared to 2020 and up 4.5 percent compared to 2019). This
result was driven primarily by sales in North America and
China.
- Sales in North America were driven by solid
sales in the U.S. of light trucks including the Highlander,