Toyota is the world’s largest automaker for the second year in a row. In 2021, as in 2020, it sold more cars than the number 2, the Volkswagen Group.
It has been quite a bit of exchange for years between the Toyota Motor Corporation and the Volkswagen Group, which is the largest car manufacturer in the world. Last year, Toyota took the crown from the Volkswagen Group and Toyota may continue to wear it for another year after the sales results of 2021. Toyota sold (rounded) 10,496,000 cars last year, compared to 8,882,000 cars from the Volkswagen Group. That calculates Automotive News. The difference between the two manufacturers (more than 1.6 million cars) is a lot bigger than last year, when the difference was more than 200,000 cars.
From 2008 to 2015, Toyota was continuously the largest car manufacturer in the world, but saw the Volkswagen Group pass by in 2016, 2018 and 2019. In 2017, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi was the largest automaker. Last year, the Volkswagen Group was clearly hit harder by the chip shortage than Toyota. The Japanese sold 10.1 percent more cars than in 2020, where the Volkswagen Group saw sales shrink by 4.5 percent.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl