Toyota sold 9.53 million cars in 2020. With that, the Japanese take over the lead position of the Volkswagen Group as the largest car manufacturer. The RAV4 was the best-selling model according to Toyota.
Toyota’s 9.53 million car sales also include subsidiary brands Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino, a truck manufacturer. The number is 11.3 percent lower than the total number of cars sold in 2019. For Toyota it is the first worldwide sales decline in nine years. Toyota production fell by 14.1 percent, even more sharply, a total of 9.21 million cars rolled off the line in 2020. With 994,000 units sold, the RAV4 is Toyota’s top seller. In addition, the percentage of electrified cars sold by Toyota rose from 20 percent to 23 percent of the total.
It is striking that Toyota now reports that the RAV4 was the best-selling model. Yesterday, figures from Focus2Move that it would be the Corolla, by a wide margin, in fact. More than a million copies are said to have been sold. Of course we believe Toyota directly and so it seems that it is in the count of it Focus2Move something special has happened. It may have summed up differently named versions of the Corolla, where Toyota doesn’t, but don’t pin us down.
Although the Japanese had to deal with a considerable drop in sales, the competition was even less successful. The entire Volkswagen Group, including Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Skoda, Seat, Bentley, Bugatti and truck manufacturers Scania and MAN, sold 9.31 million vehicles in the past year; a decrease of 15 percent. That hard blow knocked Volkswagen off the throne as the largest car manufacturer. Incidentally, Toyota is not showing off the place of honor. “Our focus is not on our place in this ranking, but on serving our customers,” a Toyota spokeswoman told the news agency Reuters.