Toyota has a beautiful milestone to celebrate. It was the largest auto group in the United States in 2021. Toyota sold more cars than General Motors and is the first non-US automaker to take the lead.
Since time immemorial, General Motors has been the car manufacturer that sells the most cars in its home country of the United States. Up to now. After a decades-long battle between the Japanese and Americans in the US car market, Toyota has sold more cars for the first time. Toyota Motor, which also includes Lexus, will drive 2,332,262 cars in 2021, compared to 2,218,228 vehicles from GM. This is evident from the American sales figures communicated by both companies.
It’s quite a historic moment in several respects. For starters, General Motors has been the frontrunner in the US since 1931, reports said Reuters. So it just didn’t manage to be at the top for 100 consecutive years. At the same time, it also means that for the first time a non-American car group is the largest. Whoever said that it would come to this in the 1970s, during the rise of the Japanese brands in the US, would probably have been considered crazy.
Toyota sold 2,027,786 cars, Lexus subsidiary 304,476. Across the board, cars sold 11.5 percent more than in 2020. The best-selling Toyota was the RAV4, with 407,739 units, followed by the Camry (313,795), the Highlander (264,128) and the Tacoma (252,520). At Lexus, most of the success was due to the RX, with 115,320 units sold, followed by the NX (58,514) and the ES (45,406).
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl