Volkswagen, Toyota over in sales

Posted on 26-04-2016 at 11:06 am by CasperH – 56 Comments”

The Toyota succeed to make this year the greatest car salesman in the world for the fifth year in a row? The first quarter of this year is hardly encouraging for the Japanese.

Volkswagen sold in Q1 of this year, 2.5 million cars, an increase of 0.8 percent. This was due mainly to sales growth in China (+6.4 percent) and Europe (+3,5%). Toyota, however, fell 2.3 percent to 2,46 million cars. Also, GM recorded a decrease: 2.36 million cars sold meant a loss of 2.5 percent.

Despite all the whining around dieselgate knew Volkswagen so to pluses, while Toyota, the heavy has. That is mainly due to a number of production stops, partly caused by the massive earthquake that Japan recently suffered. The country is quite in ruins and that ensures that there are a number of factories of Toyota does not normally operate. However, there was also already a production stop to regret in February when a plant where engines and other parts of the powertrains to be produced, was struck by an explosion.

If Toyota this not the greatest car salesman for the fifth year in a row, then they can be located in Toyota, in any case, comforted by the thought that their image is still perfectly in order. And that they are not more than 16 billion euros of costs are incurred because of a stupid softwareavontuur.