This time, Volkswagen no longer secured the top position in global car sales. Rival Toyota returns to the top after five years.
For the first time in five years, the Japanese auto company Toyota returned to the top spot in global auto sales and managed to overtake its rival Volkswagen. On Thursday, the Toyota Group announced that the group had sold 9.5 million vehicles worldwide last year.
Compared to the previous year, this is a decline of 11.3 percent, but Toyota was less affected by the effects of the corona pandemic than its competitors. In the case of its rival VW, sales fell by 15.2 percent to 9.3 million vehicles.
On the one hand, the recovery in the sales markets of China and the USA since autumn has contributed to the success. However, “an aggressive sales strategy” with a series of new models also meant that sales were “solid”, reports “orf.at”. Toyota sold 2.1 million vehicles in Japan alone in 2020 and 7.4 million overseas.
