{"id":513,"date":"2012-05-23T13:25:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ardmoretoyota.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2012-05-23T13:25:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:25:49","slug":"toyota-pushes-past-gm-again-to-become-the-worlds-no-1-carmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ardmoretoyota.com\/blogs\/97\/toyota-pushes-past-gm-again-to-become-the-worlds-no-1-carmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Pushes Past GM (Again) To Become the World&#8217;s No. 1 Carmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seesaw battle between General Motors and Toyota for global sales leadership just tipped in Toyota\u2019s direction again, reports Forbes. Figures from the company show Toyota sold 2.49 million vehicles in the first quarter, putting it ahead of GM with 2.28 million. Germany\u2019s Volkswagen ranks third, with 2.16 million. Toyota had grabbed the top-selling title in 2008, but lost it to GM for 2010. Now, Toyota is picking up sales and market share in the United States, particularly through sales of the newest Camry and new Prius models, while GM is giving up some of the market share gains that boosted it into the top spot. It\u2019s likely that the title will be changing hands frequently as Toyota, Volkswagen, and GM introduce new vehicles. Volkswagen, in particular, is on an aggressive sales push, aiming to sell 10 million vehicles world wide by 2018. Meanwhile, Toyota said Tuesday it has sold 4 million hybrid-electric vehicles around the world, since it put its first hybrid Prius on sale in Japan in 1997. Of those hybrids, 1.5 million have been sold in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardmoretoyota.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Toyota_Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardmoretoyota.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Toyota_Logo-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Toyota_Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ardmoretoyota.com\/blogs\/97\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Toyota_Logo-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ardmoretoyota.com\/blogs\/97\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Toyota_Logo.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michelinemaynard\/2012\/05\/22\/toyota-pushes-past-gm-again-to-become-the-worlds-no-1-carmaker\/\">here<\/a> to read the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seesaw battle between General Motors and Toyota for global sales leadership just tipped in Toyota\u2019s direction again, reports Forbes. Figures from the company show Toyota sold 2.49 million vehicles in the first quarter, putting it ahead of GM with 2.28 million. Germany\u2019s Volkswagen ranks third, with 2.16 million. Toyota had grabbed the top-selling title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toyota Pushes Past GM (Again) To Become the World&#039;s No. 1 Carmaker | Ardmore Toyota Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ardmoretoyota.com\/blogs\/97\/toyota-pushes-past-gm-again-to-become-the-worlds-no-1-carmaker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toyota Pushes Past GM (Again) To Become the World&#039;s No. 1 Carmaker | Ardmore Toyota Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The seesaw battle between General Motors and Toyota for global sales leadership just tipped in Toyota\u2019s direction again, reports Forbes. 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