Toyota tops GM in 2006 global sales
Toyota Motor Corp. became the world's biggest automaker by sales volume in 2006 outselling General Motors Corp GM by about 128,000 units, with 8,808,000 units, leading industry paper Automotive News said.
The Automotive News Data Center includes sales of a subsidiary in the total for the parent company with the majority stake.
Detroit-based General Motors, which was ranked first for 76 years, has counted vehicles that the weekly paper credited to one of its partners, totaling 420,140 units in 2006, in its own tally, the paper said.
Toyota's own sales figures correspond with Automotive News' tally and include sales at units Daihatsu Motor Co. and Hino Motors Ltd, informed Reuters.
GM’s global sales fell 90,000 vehicles short of its Japanese rival's in the first quarter of 2007.
Toyota is almost certain to top GM for all of 2007 after projecting sales of 9.34 million units against GM's forecast of 9.2 million.
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