Toyota Named World’s Largest Automaker for Fourth Year in a Row

Jan 29, 2016

Toyota sold 10.15 million vehicles in 2015, making it the World’s Largest Automaker for the fourth time. Volkswagen came in second after selling 9.9 million vehicles, and General Motor stay in third place with 9.8 million vehicles sold in 2015.

Early in 2015, Volkswagen looked like it might would finally take the lead and achieve ex-VW CEO Martin Winterkorn’s dream of surpassing Toyota. but the diesel scandal resulted in a sharp drop in sales later on in the year and Winterkorn chose to step down.

Things look promising for Toyota in 2016. They recently introduced the new version of the Prius hybrid and plan to buy the rest of the share from Daihatsu. Keep up with our blog for more Toyota updates!

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